On the evening of September 11th, inside the quiet Tannersville Library in the Catskills, I sat among neighbors surrounded by shelves of novels while we talked about what insurance companies call “Acts of God” and how to survive them. Disaster seemed like an appropriate topic for this somber anniversary. The occasion was a Citizen Preparedness Corps Training, part of a statewide effort to teach New Yorkers how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. The prog

About the presenter: Jeffrey Potent, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, teaches corporate sustainable development,...