Ready UP! America Preparedness/Self-Reliance/Sustainable Living National Tour
In 2011, he developed Ready Up! America, a TV program/preparedness/self-reliance/sustainable living tour that begins in mid June 2011 in New York City. For the project, Edwards has teamed up with several of America's top preparedness/self-reliance/sustainable living experts, scientists, activists and celebrities to increase public participation, awareness and develop new and innovative preparedness/self-reliance/sustainable living related techniques & technology. Edwards created the tour & program as a reaction to the March 11 Japan earthquake & tsunami. He feared that if a disaster of this magnitude were to occur in the USA, that the nation would not be prepared to respond and the public would suffer another tragedy that could eclipse the Hurricane Katrina disaster six years earlier.
Edwards believes the tour will help to motivate Americans to practice preparedness/self-reliance/sustainable living by making it more mainstream, accessible and fun. The tour will be recorded to be broadcast as a reality show of the same title. The first Ready UP! event was held in NYC on July 8 at St. Francis University. It featured Edwards, the hosts of the 98.7 WRKS-FM show Open Line, Bob Slade, James M'tume, Former Federal Judge Bill Pickett, Journalist Nida Khan, I.P.N. Geodesic Dome & Alternative Home Building specialist Margaret Ling, the Bedford Stuyvesant Ambulance Corp. Founder James "Rocky" Robinson, Rudolph Muhammad, Martial Artist Tawfik Aziz, fitness expert Herman Smalls and Bro. Barry Crumbley, Disaster Preparedness Expert & Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association Representative Also in attendance were representatives from the environmental group Riverkeeper, The Salvation Army & The Red Cross.
During the tour, Edwards will work to secure one million LifeStraw water filters to be distributed in Haiti to help combat the cholera epidemic. He is a co-founder of LifeStraw NOW! an organization created for the specific purpose of purchasing and distributing LifeStraws highly effective portable & inexpensive water filters. LifeStraw NOW! is currently preparing to re-format its operation to include larger high volume water filters.
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