SAFE G: Empowering Resilient Communities


Mission. To empower local communities to design immediate and effective SAFE G solutions that implement optical fiber wired to the home and office. Local taxpayers and ratepayers are entitled to this alternative to wireless, because they have already paid for it. Please see: Irregulators v. FCC.

5G/AI/Internet of Things Juggernaut presents an imminent threat. The harms to our community’s physical and mental health, the local environment, violations of citizen’s rights to due process, property, and personal privacy are foreseeable and preventable. The threat is especially dangerous to our children, elderly people, those with special sensitivities, disabled persons with chronic illnesses, caregivers, and our economically disadvantaged and minority communities that have no escape in their homes or workplaces.

Remedy: Community Empowerment: An effective remedy begins with widespread education and training in a proven system of wise leadership, community organization, team building, and negotiation. With this purpose we have created a 5G Dojo to support local communities around the world that are facing similar challenges. The key is to share negotiation successes and practical experience, so these lessons can be immediately deployed within the network. Equally essential is to fortify community-wide resilience rapidly and effectively. (See: 5 Minutes toResilience)

Our Funding Goal: $ 100,000

Donations: Please make your check or money order payable to National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy, designated for "SAFE G/Community Empowerment Initiative". You can contribute in two ways.

o   Simple donation with full tax deduction.

o   Partial tax deduction (at cost) with benefits. Please see benefit levels below.

Sponsors: Please contact us to discuss any questions or concerns and customized donation options.

Springs of Amethysts - $100

  • Public Recognition as a Community Health Charter Sponsor
  • Signed copy of Julian Gresser, Piloting through Chaos—Wise Leadership/Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century (1995)
  • Free gift of the 5 Minutes to Resilience web app


Rivulets of Moonstones - $500

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • 5 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 5 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Sparkles of Opal - $1K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Public Lecture in Your Honor
  • 10 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 10 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Fountains of Pearls - $5K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • ½ day workshop training and consultation with any organization or company


Jade Eddies - $10K

  • All of the above awards (except memberships) plus:
  • Two ½ day workshop, training and consultation with any organization or company of your choice
  • 20 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 20 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Sapphire Brooks of Laughing Hearts - $25K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • 1 day of professional consultation and meetings


Ruby Streams of Laughing Hearts - $35K

  • All of the above awards (except memberships) plus:
  • One full day training program with materials for organization of choice to you.
  • 50 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 50 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Emerald Rivers of Laughing Hearts - $50K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Two full day training programs with materials for organizations of your choice
  • 100 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 100 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Diamond Rivers of Laughing Hearts - $100K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Four full day training programs with materials for organizations of your choice.
  • 200 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 200 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses

Resiliency in Systems: Keywords

Resiliency in Systems: Keywords

Bill Moulton, our staff systems cyberneticist, provides the following keywords related to resiliency – with the first list focused on challenges to systems, and the second list on how system survive challenges:

Crisis or degree of “system challenge” keywords:

  • Breakdown
  • Adversity
  • Change
  • Distortion
  • Deviation
  • Abnormal
  • Anomalous
  • Disturbance
  • Disruption
  • Damage
  • Failure (failure modes)
  • Capability degradation
  • Cost increases
  • Capability loss
  • Interference
  • Perturbation
  • Dysfunction
  • Chaotic factors

Responsive resilience or degree of “system viability” under stress keywords:

  • Viability
  • Vitality
  • Changeability
  • Weathering change
  • Controlled growth
  • Versatility
  • Sustainability
  • Endurance
  • Continuity
  • Adaptability
  • Stability
  • Security
  • Homeostasis
  • Reliability
  • Survivability
  • Robustness
  • Pliability
  • Strength
  • Recoverability
  • Remapping
  • Responsiveness
  • Mediating
  • Reflexive
  • Flexibility
  • Resolving
  • Interoperable
  • Affordable
  • Functional
  • Maintainable
  • Vibrant
  • Thriving
  • Bouncing back
  • Symbiosis
  • Collaborative
  • Integrating
  • Diversity inclusive
  • Variety inclusive

Resilience related keywords organized by associate density in Search Engine Optimization (Touchgraph.com) Click image to see larger.
Resilience is characterized by ability for recovery, maintenance of stability, capacity to adapt, ability to resist destructive change… when we worked with EPRI the issue of renewables was that it predicted a challenge to grid resiliency due to intermittency of supply from renewables, hence the need for grid scale energy storage solutions to provide grid supply resiliency.

Resilience is a systems vitality and systems viability principle, that suggests resilience is crucial to organizational, biological, cultural, ecological, materials systems robustness, continuity, safety, vitality, control, and viability.

In the field of materials and design, there is a branch called “resilience engineering”, and in cybernetics there is something called the “Viable Systems Model” or VSM (developed by Ross Ashby one of the fathers of modern day cybernetics since Norbert Weiner). Another key general principle from cybernetics is “requisite variety”, the ability to maintain course despite deviations encountered.

In other words, resilience is very much about maintenance of continuity of purpose in the face of resistance, deviation, disruption, and is hence all about adaptive systems that maintain themselves in the face of change. And sometimes, like the reed, it is only possible through great adaptation, as opposed to sheer resistance. The principle reduces to “only variety absorbs variety” (Ashby 1956) – that is only systems that can vary themselves can sustain themselves in the face of changing environment in which they thrive.

Keeping your car on the road while driving is therefore a perfect example of requisite variety, adaptation, maintaining continuity and safety when encountering obstacles, bad drivers, poor weather, and so forth. The one who has an accident is a system that exhibits insufficient requisite variety.

Resilience is inclusive of a number of organizational activities: conflict resolution, coordination, stability, internal regulation, monitoring, optimization, synergy, intelligence, adaptation, forward planning, strategy, identity.

Notes:

One commentator notes: “The reasons for this lack of coherence (about the definition of resilience) are the underlying differences in the scope of analysis, with respect to time periods chosen, the system boundaries, the disruptive events considered, the actions suggested for coping with the disruption, and the system qualities that should be preserved (Sheard and Mostashari 2008) There is an extensive literature on the viability of systems that is directly relevant to resilient systems.Viability in Systems (Mekdeci, B. 2013) Managing the impact of change through survivability and pliability to achieve viable systems of systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Engineering Systems Division, MIT Cambridge, MA. (PDF) Design for Viability of Complex Engineered Systems under Uncertainty. Available from: Of note in Mekdeci’s review of the partial synonym for resilience, ‘viability’:

  • Viability is applicable to all engineered systems, whether they are traditional, monolithic systems, or large systems of systems.
  • Viability is Subjective. Whether a system is viable or not, it is determined by how well the outputs of the system are likely to satisfy stakeholder needs.
  • Viability Is Dynamic. Viability is a prediction about whether the system will provide acceptable value to its stakeholders over its life era. What constitutes the life era is a prediction made by the stakeholders at the time viability is assessed.
  • Viability is Relative. A system can be more or less viable than another system or to itself, if something changes since viability are likely. The more likely that a system will provide acceptable value to its stakeholders over its life era, the more viable it is.
  • Viability does not mean Existence. It is possible for an engineered system to exist, for a finite period of time, without being viable.

Above from Design for Viability of Complex Engineered Systems under Uncertainty)

This diagram below is a visual, organizational map of complex systems broken into seven sub-groups – Created by Hiroki Sayama, D.Sc., Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Research Group at Binghamton University, State University of New York. (Click for larger):

Next: When Resilience is Impaired

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