The massive wildfire driving the inhabitants of Fort McMurray, Alberta, and surroundings reminded me of the issue of fire protection, both urban and rural.
Here is some permaculture advice on fire protection in rural areas, from Bill Mollison, the Australian permaculture pioneer. If you're new to the miracles of permaculture, I included two short video clips. More below.

Job one in becoming a more resilient person is the constant work of making one’s mind more resilient. Could I really become more resilient when my mind is so fragile and I am so anxious? Yes, I can. As long as I can still learn new things. Otherwise, sadly, no.
I’m going through a few days at the moment where my mind is very fragile: anxious, brittle, scattered and unfocused. Perhaps there are times when you know the same.
When I realized what was happening inside, I went to reread something that works for me in fragile mind-states: a Taoist teaching called wu-wei. More below.

Hello, resilient friends, I would like to introduce the earthship home and what you could learn from it for your situation and place. Runaway climate change is here and worsening by the day. The most resilient homes for such a world are the various types of underground homes, full and partial. A fortunate few will be able to build such homes, but most folks could not. But there is much they could do to make their present homes more resilient. Have a look at the earthship home - a hybrid underground design.

Would you like to find ways to make your local community more resilient, more viable, more self-sufficient? Democratic-Socialism emphasizes appropriate technology to develop local communities, especially in rural areas. We'll look briefly at E.F. Schumacher's chapter on Appropriate Technology in Small Is Beautiful. Then we'll look at the example of a small town in Bavaria, called Wilpoldsried, which macgyvered its way out of where corporatist "development" had left it for dead and into a profitable future using Renewable Energies, the very best appropriate technology for small communities. More below.

When I was a business world creature, I learned about the mutual back-rubbing during the famous 3-martini lunch routine.
(Back-rubbing is such an equal-opportunity human behaviour that it takes place everywhere and anywhere and any time :=)
After jet-packing out of that, um, lunch sub-culture, I've tried to learn about healthy lunches. So, I'll show you my lunch and maybe you could show me your lunch :=) More below.