The State of Oregon does not currently have an emergency management or educational resource that provides experiential learning opportunities for how to cope with a household fire, an earthquake, flood, or other emergency situation. Oregon would benefit from having such a resource, both to educate and train residents and to provide a national model as the first home safety center in the nation dedicated to experiential learning.

Visiting the Center would always be exciting with its one of a kind experiential training, such as opportunities to feel and respond to a realistic earthquake simulation and learn how to use a fire extinguisher through hands-on training. These activities would be available for a wide spectrum of audiences, including students, families, businesses, tourists, and special needs populations. All programs would support the Center’s goal of providing the critical motivation for the residents of the region to prepare themselves, their families, their homes, their workplaces, and their communities to respond appropriately and mitigate the losses from disasters and emergencies.

In keeping with its mission, the Center would collaborate with government at all levels as well as with those organizations in the private sector concerned with home safety and disaster preparedness. Through partnerships with others, including research institutions and training programs, the Center would maintain a comprehensive library of information dealing with disaster preparedness so that it is the “go-to” place for relevant up-to-date literature, with particular focus on hazards specific to Oregon. The Center also provides current information on disasters as they happen locally, throughout the U.S., and around the world, to educate residents on the impact of disasters on other communities and to encourage people to become and to stay prepared.

Earth quakes, oil spills, heat waves, local organizations in economic troubles. It'd be "gloom and doom" to suggest that such crises affect our communities at a growing rate - but they do happen. Fortunately, our capacity to rapidly and effectively organize around these issues is also improving with the development of open source technologies such as http://www.ushahidi.com/, which has been successfully used in recent disasters including the Haiti earthquake and Gulf Oil spill. Such tools, coupled with the use of growing social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and even Hulu, communities can leverage the internet to rapidly and consistently communicate their message, organize support, and make change.

Together Level Online Strategy and ThinkShout have been working to build such tools for local community organizations on the Gulf that are desperately trying to communicate the true story of what's happening in their communities, crowdsource accurate data on the spill, and mobilize volunteers. To this end, we have built http://savethegulf.mobilebaykeeper.org and http://saveourgulf.org. Based upon what we've learned with these and similar projects, we would like to build out a Drupal distribution that can be quickly and affordably rolled out as a crisis response and community mobilization tool. While Ushahidi is an amazing tool, it lacks Drupal's broader feature set and large ecosystem of developers, contributed modules, and users. Drupal also has the ability to be effectively bundled into focused distributions, with default modules and configurations, and a tailored installation process.

Disaster preparedness is a hot topic here in Oregon (see: http://news.opb.org/article/7367-new-audit-questions-data-centers-disaster-preparedness/). Leveraging Drupal and partnering with larger NPOs and state/local government, we could build a tool set that combines crowdsourced mapping, fundraising, messaging, and volunteer organization features. We could also integrate multiple communications channels such as email, twitter, SMS, Google Voice-to-Text, and so forth to make such a tool easy-to-use.

Develop applications for utilizing Strawjet Technology in the aftermath of disasters that provide immediate short term relief to survivors and long term solutions for sustainable redevelopment of affected communities. For example an earthquake may devastate a region leaving the population without shelter and/or building materials. Plant materials such as straw, reeds, bamboo, hemp, jute, or whatever locally available agricultural residue could be processed to produce building material for rapidly assembled emergency shelters. Eventually, more substantial buildings would be built as redevelopment progresses that sustains the surviving communities. Seeds of an appropriate crop could be sent to the disaster area along with the Strawjet machines so that in a few months time there would be ample plant material for processing into building material.

In the case of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster, the Strawjet could be used to create a miles long rice straw barrier which would soak up the petrochemicals and prevent further pollution of the coast. The rice straw barrier that could be left in place until it eventually biodegrades into soil, or removed for disposal.

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