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Yale e360: Vermont’s Washington County, which contains Plainfield and Montpelier, the state capital, ranked third in the nation in total disaster declarations from 2011 to 2023, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Rebuild by Design. Vermont, which is the 49th most populated state, ranked seventh among all states in the number of disaster declarations in
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Landscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county receive a federal disaster declaration because of extreme weather. Some states, including California, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, have received dozens. The real number of congressional districts that have faced extreme weather could be even higher,
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Landscape Architecture Magazine: Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county receive a federal disaster declaration because of extreme weather. Some states, including California, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, have received dozens. The real number of congressional districts that have faced extreme weather could be even higher,
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FAS: The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-partisan, nonprofit science think tank dedicated to developing evidence-based policies to address national threats, today released the 2025 Heat Policy Agenda. This strategy provides specific, actionable policy ideas to tackle the growing threat of extreme heat in the United States – an issue that now affects all
The Guardian: Caleb Stratton, Hoboken’s chief resilience officer, recalls how city officials asked him to lead the rebuilding and recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy. The park, one of four planned resiliency sites in the city, was primarily paid for with infrastructure replacement grants, including roughly $10m from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Stratton said a
Harvard News: Sandy’s arrival in 2012 accelerated the search for water management solutions that combined gray and green approaches. This hybrid paradigm features in winning projects from the Rebuild by Design competition, initiated in 2013 by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Intended to foster resilience in Sandy-impacted areas through “regionally scalable” yet
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Geographical: The benefits of breeding oysters and better sewage- disposal practices have already changed the course of New York Harbor life. Compared with 50 years ago, today there’s a lot of life in the harbour, along with more biodiversity and bio-productivity. This has been achieved largely thanks to putting an end to the practice of
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Rebuild by Design was born out of Hurricane Sandy and is based in New York City. Much of our work is incubated at the city and state level, and then brought to communities around the world. Since New York is our hometown, we have done quite a bit of work incubating projects here that we
Bloomberg: Living Breakwaters, one of seven funded projects to emerge from the competition, addresses more than storm surge. It is designed to slow currents flowing along the shore, which allows sand to accumulate, restoring the beach and replenishing plant and animal habitat. A new dune line is already forming, anchored by driftwood and new grasses.
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