Across Connecticut, severe weather, inland and coastal flooding, and infrastructure vulnerabilities are creating serious challenges for towns and families. These issues endanger public safety and the state’s economic health. Ensuring a stable future will require responsible, long-term investments that strengthen and modernize our infrastructure.
National Geographic: In response, the Obama administration tried a new approach. The Department of Housing and Urban Development held a competition in 2014 called Rebuild by Design, which solicited proposals for not just rebuilding after the crisis but also for creating future resilience by anticipating catastrophes and building with a holistic understanding of the needs
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Metropolis Mag: ESCR’s Project Area 1, centered on East River Park, involves raising the waterfront park’s topography and is nested within the so-called “BIG U,” which had its origins in the post-Sandy, US HUD–sponsored Rebuild by Design competition. Conceived by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and implemented primarily through city agencies, it envisions a network of
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The Bay State Banner: “Every single county in Massachusetts has suffered a major climate event from 2011 to 2024,” said Amy Chester, director at Rebuild by Design, the nonprofit company that produced the Massachusetts edition of the report, called the “Atlas of Disaster.” The organization brings together experts on global and local scales to find
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ROCK 92.9: A report released by Rebuild by Design, an initiative of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, has tracked how fires, floods, emergency room visits, and insurance premium increases have accelerated as the world’s climate has warmed. Massachusetts has certainly seen its share of these climate impacts.
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Boston Globe: Extreme weather disasters fueled by climate change in Massachusetts have cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report by Rebuild by Design, an initiative of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.
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Communities across Massachusetts face escalating challenges from climate change: more frequent flooding, extreme heat, rising sea levels, and increasingly intense nor’easters. These threats endanger people, infrastructure, and the state’s economy. To meet these challenges, Massachusetts must prioritize sustained investment in long-term resilience.
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Rebuild by Design releases the Atlas of Disaster: Massachusetts, a report on Massachusetts’ recent history of disasters and opportunities to build storm resilience, alongside a statewide legislative representative search tool that connects residents to the state and federal officials responsible for advancing climate resilience. The analysis finds that Massachusetts has experienced 11 federally declared disasters
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Economic Architecture Project: In this week’s episode, Amy Chester joins the Economic Architecture podcast to share her innovative work at Rebuild by Design—an organization dedicated to merging global expertise with regional and community-based solutions to scale solutions in response to the rise of climate-related risks. Host Stuart Yasgur and Amy Chester discuss the unexpected bipartisanship
Rolling Stone: The government has spent more than $3 billion on beach replenishment over the past four decades. But with worsening climate change, experts say more dramatic change is in order
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