NY Daily News: Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me, and I’ve spent more than 15 years working on climate change in New York City. Within the span of 13 days, we twice surpassed the record for the single biggest rainfall in a single hour […]
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POLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change. The effects of global warming are already widespread and severe, according to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Flooded subway stations, heat emergencies and retreating coastlines are just a preview of the types of change city residents will continue to
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Help us Build an Equitable Recovery! The pandemic has impacted all of our lives, in some cases very tragically. And though the pandemic’s impacts have been widespread, the health and economic impacts have not fallen equally among different communities. The pandemic further exposed historical inequities in Boulder County- disparities in health and economic outcomes by race,
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Il Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni della metropolitana furono inondate, 2 milioni di persone e alcuni ospedali rimasero senza corrente elettrica e a Staten Island, l’isola che insieme al Bronx, al Queens, a Manhattan e a Brooklyn è
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A deeper look at how benefit-cost analysis is used to determine who receives federal dollars for infrastructure investments Join Resources for the Future and the Urban Institute on Wednesday, July 21 at noon, for the fourth event in Exposure, a multi-part webinar series on environmental justice. Government agencies use benefit-cost analysis and related economic decision tools
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The Resilient Bridgeport team has been working on the design of the pilot project in the South End, beginning with the solicitation of a topographic survey for the project area. This survey will be critical to the design team’s effort to advance the pilot project design to 30% completion. The team’s engineers also are continuing
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In early December, the Resilient Bridgeport team convened in Hartford, Connecticut, for the project kickoff. Team members, HUD, Connecticut Department of Housing (CT DOH), and the City of Bridgeport are eager to embark on a two-pronged process that pairs the development of an integrated resilience strategy for Bridgeport’s low-lying coastal neighborhoods with the design and
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Bridgeport children were front and center in designing the programmatic uses of the stormwater retention park that will be a feature of the resilience strategy. The project team hosted two participatory planning charettes to gauge input from children and local residents on designs that they would like to see incorporated into the stormwater resilience park.
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In the last week of March, the Resilient Bridgeport design team convened a weeklong workshop that focused on design conditions, design strategies, and community engagement in downtown Bridgeport and in the South End. The workshops included sessions with other entities conducting planning and resilience efforts in the city. On the afternoon of March 24, the
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New York City is applying for funding as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) to implement a comprehensive resiliency vision for Lower Manhattan. The proposed projects include: 1. Coastal protection for Lower Manhattan south of Montgomery Street to Battery Park 2. Stormwater management for NYCHA campuses in
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