The Spanish translation will aide Latin American cities, governments and businesses to better prepare for the bi-annual UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which be held May 2017 in Cancun, Mexico.

Resilience Action Fund's new website aims to expand public awareness on the inadequacy of building codes, lack of transparency, challenges of property insurance and importance of consumer choices. As the first 'resilience public watchdog', it debuts its resilience 'Hall of Fame' and 'Hall of Shame', aiming to shine a spotlight and engage public discourse. Find out now which organizations appear on these first Halls.

Resilience Action Fund (International) was launched at a London event attended by international business leaders from the finance, construction, energy, materials and other sectors. Its mission is to advance awareness, transparency and education for greater resilience in the built environment against natural and other hazards. This is aligned with the goals of the UN Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, signed in 2015 by 187 countries and referenced in the COP21 Paris Agreement.

Website founder Meg Pier converses with Dr. Jian Lin, senior scientist of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

With the announcement that Kirstie Alley has lost 20 pounds using a new weight-reduction "elixir", at least one person is applauding her action as possibly saving the world.

If the Mayan Calendar is correct, the world will end on December 21, 2012 and The 2012 Guide Book steps tongue-in-cheek through more end-of-world scenarios than a cult Leader warming up a crowd at an all-you-can-drink Kool-Aid farewell bash.

If the Mayan Calendar is correct, the world will end on December 21, 2012. One of many possible end-scenarios is the unleashing of the anti-Santa, according to the newly published "2012 Guide Book or How to Make the End of the World Fun!"