Join the Institute for Public Knowledge for a book talk on The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet with the author Jeff Goodell in conversation with Eric Klinenberg. Jeff Goodell is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of
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Shore Link Network: The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has made public a proposed amendment to the Superstorm Sandy Action Plan for public comment. This amendment aims to reallocate $59.44 million in Superstorm Sandy Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds towards resiliency projects and Hurricane Ida recovery initiatives. The Deputy Commissioner of DCA,
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The Time Argus: A timely report on natural disasters and infrastructure in Vermont shows Washington County saw 11 declared disasters over a 10-year period – the most in the state, not including last month’s flooding. On Thursday, the nonprofit Rebuild by Design released its report titled, “Atlas of Disaster: Vermont.” The organization operates out of
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24/7 Wall Street: In the last 10 years, 9 out of every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a federally declared climate disaster, according to a report released late last year. Disasters including hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, floodings, and other types of extreme weather events struck almost every part of the country. This means
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Seven Days: A New York-based nonprofit that helps communities adapt to the climate crisis released a report on Thursday about the impact of a decade of disasters on Vermont. The Vermont Atlas of Disaster seeks to highlight how battered the state has been by extreme weather in recent years and to underscore the need for investments in
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August 3, 2023 – As Vermonters continue to clean up from the latest flooding, Rebuild by Design, a nonprofit working on climate adaptation infrastructure globally, releases the report “Atlas of Disaster: Vermont” which identifies the impacts of recent climate disasters across Vermont at the county level. The data shows that Vermont had 17 federally declared
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New York Times: The lack of a comprehensive national rainfall database and current flood maps hampers the ability to prepare for storms intensified by climate change. This week’s flooding in Vermont, in which heavy rainfall caused destruction even miles from any river, is evidence of an especially dangerous climate threat: Catastrophic flooding can increasingly happen
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Village Voice: In September 2021, New York City experienced historic and catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Streets turned to rivers, cars flooded and were left abandoned, people drowned in their own basements. This writer dodged waterfalls in the subway before arriving home to find a room slowly filling with water gurgling up through
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VT Digger: The biggest oil companies in the world made more than $200 billion in profits last year, while Vermonters were forced to pay record prices at the pump — and got stuck with the costs of climate change cleanup in our communities. This commentary is by Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public
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