As Sandy nears land, we’ve been watching conversations online to stay on top of the latest information, concerns, and topics related to the storm. Below are some tweets that may …
Month: October 2012
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Hurricane Sandy is taking aim at a huge swath of the East Coast this week, and she’s got me pretty worried. One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned from …
From the Archives
American Red Cross and Knit Your Bit World War I knitting campaign poster Knit Your Bit was synonymous with the volunteer Red Cross knitting programs for the military and …
“Lookout Fire!” Not “Lookout, Fire!”
It’s all about where you choose to place your punctuation. The other day, we had a pretty serious looking fire scare when the Lookout Fire ignited in the sleepy Santa …
GIS in Uganda: Update on Gulu and Lira
Editor’s note: From August 30 – September 9, Robert Banick, a geographic information systems (GIS) analyst for the American Red Cross, traveled to Uganda as part of a project to improve …
Do the Steps
Anna Reid, a 15-year-old babysitter from Westfield, NJ wasn’t expecting to be a hero. It just happened. Anna was serving up French bread pizza to Matthew and Leia on a …
A New Joint in this Joint
Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington just got a new hip, or as she put it, “there’s a new joint in this joint.” She required a blood transfusion in the process, and …
Time to Carve Those Pumpkins!
With Halloween just a little over a week away, we decided it was time to finally carve the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front porch for the last …
Blogs from the Field: From Alaska to Bangladesh
This is a post by Wendy Brightman, who is a volunteer from Alaska spending four weeks in Bangladesh helping with cash transfer programming after severe flooding left millions displaced and …
It’s the Great ShakeOut
Today, 10/18 at 10:18am, you can join over 12 million people around the world practice earthquake preparedness. Just this week an earthquake was felt in New England, so you don’t …