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Crisis Camp: Calling All Preparedness Super-Geeks!

FYI for any of you interested in the intersections between disaster response and technology… June 13 & 14th will mark the first ever CrisisCamp. This conference (or rather, unconference) in […]

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up

Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you… [The place names link […]

Slideshow: Courting Donors Blood Drive

As Tara mentioned yesterday, today is the annual Courting Donors Blood Drive — one of our favorite events. We get to meet princesses, get free massages, eat cake and check […]

Water Safety: A Page From The Past

Imitating a motorboat. Floating like a mud-turtle. Kicking like a sternwheel. Yep, this is how you learned to swim with the Red Cross back in 1921. The article below was […]

Roses are red, violets are blue…

…sign up to donate blood, and people who need it will love you! This is me with my mom Rose (right). My mom is the prettiest Rose I know. That’s […]

Giant Fire-Fighting Robots!

I swear I’m not making this up. His name is Clear Cut. And he fights forest fires. …Or at least that’s the concept. Designer Jordan Guelde sees this giant robot marching […]

Taking A Page From Knit Lit

There is not an ounce of craftiness in my body. I can’t garden or cook or scrapbook or make a cute first aid kit. And I absolutely, definitely can’t knit. […]

Prepare-aphernalia: Cordless Coffee Maker

Dealing with a disaster can be headache enough. You don’t want a caffeine crash as well!  So if you just can’t go without your daily java fix, the Coleman Camping […]