San Francisco — Five years ago not one but two calamitous floods struck major cities, each taking more than a thousand lives. One, of course, was Katrina, but only a month earlier, 37 inches struck the city of Mumbai, India,…
Source: Taking the Initiative | The Sierra Club
New Orleans — President Obama returned to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, to a region still reeling from the Macondo oil gusher and from Katrina’s legacy. The president reminded us that Katrina “was a natural disaster,…
Source: Taking the Initiative | Carl Pope
Los Angeles — The City of the Angels may be about to give birth to a new version of the “American System” — the national-state-local transportation partnership that, for over a hundred years, helped propel America into global economic leadership….
Source: Taking the Initiative | Carl Pope
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