I would never have thought a sweet watermelon
soup could be a good appetizer but the balance of herbs and a
touch of sour watermelon make this
soup a lot more
than just sweet.
Among the 40 or so non-city-leaders were resilience - focused representatives of various federal agencies (including the alphabet
soup of FEMA, HUD, DOE, EPA, and NIST), along with experts from more
than a dozen leading organizations whose work
touches on resilience: the Urban Land Institute, World Resources Institute, Trust for Public Land, Rocky Mountain Institute, The Clinton Foundation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, STAR Communities, Global Green, and yours truly from the Resilient Design Institute.