We’re pleased to announce our newest affiliate, Professional Associate Robert de Neufville. Here’s his bio from the GCRI People page.

Robert blogs about the future of the human race at Anthropocene. Robert is also a contributing blogger at Big Think and The Economist’s Democracy in America. Robert holds an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (1996) and an A.B. in Government from Harvard (1992). As a Professional Associate, Robert writes GCRI’s news summary and contributes to a wide range of global catastrophic …

Website update: GCRI’s ongoing series of news summaries can now be found under the Resources menu item at the top of the page. That links to a new News Summaries resource page. This acknowledges the important role that the news summaries play and will make it easier to find the news summaries from anywhere in the website.

The news summaries can also be access through the blog via the News Summaries blog category page.

Dear friends,

If there’s one thing we know from the study of risk, it’s that sudden, unexpected events can change the game. So it was for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the subject of a new paper by GCRI Deputy Director Grant Wilson. So too it is right now for GCRI and our parent organization Blue Marble Space, which recently lost its 501c3 tax status. For Deepwater Horizon, the result was several deaths plus massive environmental and economic damage. For GCRI, it means we have to …