About this concept of resiliency. As youre fixing your knowledge youre adding to the city wide resiliency. What does that mean . Thats a great question. What spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the l
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli
Commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an english teacher in morocco two years and quickly grew to love this part of the world. Since joining the service i spent almost my entire career in middle east and africa. One of the things that impressed me were people old enough to have lived and traveled in the United States when we had closer relations. Those days are back. We had 1,700 libyans apply for fullbright grants to study in the United States this year, more than any other country in the world. We know that libya is still recovering from
My name is chris stevens, im the new u. S. Ambassador to libya. I had the honor to serve as the envoy to the libyan revolution and i was thrilled to watch the libyan people stand up and demand their rights. Now im excited to return to libya to continue the great work weve started, building a Solid Partnership between the United States and libya to help you the libyan people achieve your goals. Right now im in washington, preparing for my assignment. As i walk around the monuments and memorials commemorating the courageous men and women that made america what it is, im reminded we too went through challenging periods, when america was divided by a bitter civil war 150 years ago. President Abraham Lincoln had the vision to pull us together toward a shared goal of peace and prosperity. Growing up in california i didnt know much about the arab world. Then after graduating from the university of california at berkeley, i traveled to north africa as peace corps engineer. I worked as an engli