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Best crowdsourcing for the Typhoon

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After a morning of searching, I see the the google crisis map as a good solution; there are many other crowdsourced maps that have popped up in the last week. Relief workers should have staff monitoring these for relevant entries to their area of concern. The google crisis map allows you to upload data or datasets by using a q uestionnaire available here . This is organized in Google's Crisis Response group. There is also a Typhoon Yolanda people finder that is very useful. The Philippines government crowdsourcing data and GIS data http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Philippines government crowdsourced GIS data server http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Google site obtains much of its data from ESRI here: http://fema-services2.esri.com/arcgis/rest/services/2013_Cyclone_Haiyan/Cyclone_Haiyan_Impact/MapServer/ The ESRI hosted crowdsourcing map http://giscorps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=cf6031322a334cc3bfe3f9a74f23b384 The o

Donate to Typhoon Haiyan without admin costs!

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The Water Charity  allows you to donate to the Typhoon Haiyan Relief effort: You can donate knowing that all of your donation is going towards the actual purchase of filters to provide drinking water. They already have partners on the ground who are distributing the filters. They are working with ADRA , Sawyer water filters and many other partners. Click here:

My Christian Drinking Water Prezi

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A Christian's Global Stewardship and Duty for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

I'm giving a presentation today in our annual faculty meeting/retreat.  The title is "A Christian's Global Stewardship and Duty for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene".  You can see the presentation on prezi here: http://prezi.com/mrhp7uyq0kji/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Some points that I want to make are the following: I am not aware of ANY department, program, school, curriculum etc at any school in any country which focuses on water and sanitation from a christian perspective to water and sanitation.  The Loma Linda University School of Public Health is in a prime position to have an academic program on water and sanitation from a religion perspective.   We are in this prime position because: We are re-energizing and re-designing our School of Public Health We recognize our strength as  a religious school of Public Health There are MANY Christian NGOs with WASH as a top priority WASH and Tropical Medicine repres

Bicycle: SPACE REQUIREMENTS

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I'm a bicycle commuter. I would rather ride a bike than take a bus or drive a car.

Evolution

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Here is a re-post of a blog I recently discovered: "Why evolution is true".  Only Turkey is lower in belief of evolution. http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/acceptance-of-evolution-vs-religiosity-in-the-u-s/ This was from the water wired blog

Floods happen first in the desert

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If the sea level increased by 2 meters, there would be serious problems in Long Beach and other coastal communities. The desert would have a similar problem. ALL of the Eastern Coachella Valley would flood. This is according to a new web resource posted  here:  This is probably based on elevation modeling alone, but is still relevant. What happens in Bangladesh is troubling, but think of what happens at home.  The  Laguna Salada  would be filled by the Sea of Cortez. Everything south of Indio would be in serious trouble. All of the agricultural production in this zone and in Yuma would be in trouble. What are the implications for food supply? I remember this shocking revelation during Katrina in New Orleans. The disadvantaged communities of New Orleans were inconveniently located in the flood zone. The disadvantaged communities of Eastern Coachella and Imperial would be impacted first.