Jay Raskin Architect

Category: Seismic

  • The Oregon Resilience Plan: A call to expand the sustainability conversation

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    Edward Wolf has laid down a challenge to the sustainability community to include resilience as part of sustainability in an article in Sustainable Business Oregon.  Ted,  a writer on environmental issues, was drawn into seismic and resiliency when he discovered how seismically suspect the schools his child was attending in Portland were.  He has become…

  • Washington Resilience Plan

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      The State of Washington has released its final report for the Washington Resilience Plan.  This plan also drew its inspiration from SPUR’s Resilient City report for San Francisco.  Since they started their effort before Oregon did, we also drew on the work Washington was doing.  These two state reports are complementary and provide a…

  • Oregon Telecom’s and Cascadia

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    The Portland Mercury has a good article, Quaking Communications, talking about the vulnerabilities that telecommunication companies in Oregon have in the face of a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami.  While the Oregon Resilience Plan lays out the impacts on telecommunications and makes recommendations for strengthening the systems, the article does point out the difficulty of bringing…

  • Oregon Resilience Plan presented to Oregon Legislature

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    The Oregon Resilience Plan was presented to the Joint Veterans and Emergency Preparedness Committee today.  It is a significant achievement and the start of a new era in Oregon’s efforts to prepare for the Cascadia Earthquake/Tsunami.  Sen. Boquist, the chair of the committee, told OSSPAC, that this the initial overview meeting and the first of…

  • Oregon Resilience Plan press conference

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                          The release of the Oregon Resilience Plan was officially announced yesterday.  For those who were unable to attend here are a good set of photosthat give a flavor of the event.  The importance of this plan (and a similar one for the State of…

  • Christchurch: Nature and Resilience

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      Tipped off by a friend, I have been reading a couple of posts by Glenn Stewart, a professor of urban ecology in New Zealand.  The first, Natural Disasters and the Nature of Cities, looks at the destruction the 2010 Christchurch earthquake caused and moves on to look at how the native vegetation has started…

  • Tsunami Interpretative Trail

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    The City of Newport has a created a tsunami interpretative trail in the South Beach area.  Coastal communities have been very creative in Cascadia preparedness and this trail is just one among many efforts.  Knowledge about tsunami’s is the key to saving lives and this interpretative trail system should be expanded along the entire Oregon…

  • The Oregon Resilience Plan Adopted

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    The  Oregon Resilience Plan was adopted by OSSPAC and will shortly be on its way to the Legislature.  OSSPAC was tasked by the Legislature with developing this plan in 2011, and with the help of over 150 volunteers, divided into 8 task groups and an advisory committee, produced a report that takes a comprehensive look…