This emergency demands a radical centre, as well as a radical edge.
The time has come that we approach serious mental illness as a medical emergency demanding an approach best described as "crisis psychiatry".
Yet coalitions of the kind that this emergency demands need voices capable of speaking to the many, not the few, articulating values held in common, not in contest.
Transition's message is twofold: first, that a dire global emergency demands we transform our society; and second, that we might actually enjoy making those changes.
While it has few troops under its direct control, the command now has a staff of about 500 people, both military and civilian, and can draw on tens of thousands of troops in a matter of hours if there is a domestic emergency demanding the Pentagon's response.
If you think there's a house-on-fire emergency demanding that President Obama send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan right away (is your name Fred Kagan?) you don't just have a problem with President Barack Obama.
Global health emergencies demand quick action, which was the case for the SARS epidemic.
Data centers have emerged as promising resources for demand response, particularly for emergency demand response (EDR), which saves the power grid from incurring blackouts during emergency situations.
One plan, the Emergency Demand Response Program, will go into effect in an emergency or if there is a power shortage.
The NHS Providers chief executive, Chris Hopson, told the Health Service Journal that the guidance was "another classic example of how trusts are now caught between a rock and a hard place" of meeting surgical targets while coping with ever-rising emergency demands.
