Celebrate the publication of Susan Crawford’s brilliant and illuminating new book, Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm. Crawford weaves together the vibrant stories of Charleston residents to create a “sweeping and unflinching” portrait of a city that has played a central role in American racism for centuries (Jeff Goodell). Now, as the waters rise, […]
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ESI Climate Justice Program Public Launch; Keynote Roundtable: Building an Infrastructure of Climate Justice—Energy Democracy, Disaster Displacement, and Mobilizing for Increasing Climate Risk in New York City Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 4:30pm to 8:00pm MIT Media Lab Dreyfoos Lecture Hall E14-633, E14-633 MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St, Cambridge, MA Register now! The MIT Environmental Solutions
WNYC: Running alongside the U.N. Water Conference, New York Water Week brings leaders across fields to share ideas and solutions for water challenges around the world. Matthijs Bouw, a Dutch architect and urbanist and founder of One Architecture and Urbanism, and Edgar Westerhof, VP at Arcadis Global design & consultancy, talk about some of NYC’s big resiliency programs, like
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Bloomberg: Storms, earthquakes, flooding. More extreme weather is putting pressure on aging infrastructure in big cities, where 68% of the world’s population is expected to live by 2050. In this episode of Getting Warmer, Kal Penn explores how cities can adapt, and why obvious infrastructure solutions are often so costly (and slow). In New York
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CT Post: State officials are seeking an additional $47 million in federal aid to build and complete Resilient Bridgeport, a significant flood control plan for the South End that was already awarded $40.8 million but is now estimated to cost much more. “I’m confident we have a very good application. We had some of our best
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WRGB Albany: A new report is warning state lawmakers that if more isn’t done to address the impacts of climate change, the more it will cost New Yorkers – not only through their pocketbooks but through their quality of life. The report, done by the organization Rebuild by Design, found that every single county in New
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WSHU: A proposed $75 billion “climate change superfund” in New York would help harden Long Island’s infrastructure in the face of storm events, which supporters of the bill say have only intensified with climate change. The superfund measure would be partially funded by companies in the state that “contribute significantly” to greenhouse gas emissions. Charges
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The City: Picture this: a concrete wall obscures Christopher Street Pier when looking west over the Hudson River. It’s one element of a six-mile-long necklace of levees, barriers, gates and sea walls stretching from Hudson Yards to Battery Park to guard against coastal storms and devastating flooding. That’s all part of a $52 billion project proposed
See Walls: Army Corps’ Citywide Coastal Storm Plan Takes Shape, Steals Views Read More »
National Parks Conservation Association with Rebuild by Design and Rise 2 Resilience held a virtual workshop to strengthen your comment writing skills! At this workshop, participants learned how to submit comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and what types of comments make the biggest impact. Participants walked away with a comment template
Workshop: How to write effect comments for the USACE HATS plan Read More »
Spectrum News NY1: Calls are growing for Gov. Kathy Hochul to include policy in her executive budget proposal that would force fossil fuel companies to pay billions of dollars to reverse the impacts of climate change in New York. The efforts come as state senators in the Finance, Environmental Conservation and Energy and Telecommunications committees will hold
Calls grow for fossil fuel giants to pay into $75B fund to reverse climate change Read More »
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