From warming huts for one of the world’s coldest cities to leisure-led flood defence systems, these CLAD Features: Last January, the temperature in Winnipeg plunged to -39.8 degrees Celsius – colder than Siberia, colder than the North Pole and colder even than Mars, which at the time was basking in a relatively balmy -7. But Winnipeg […]
Over the last 10 years, 60 out of 62 counties in New York State were impacted by severe storms and flooding, tropical storms, or hurricanes. The major federal disaster declarations for these counties totaled $16.4 billion in federal aid for recovery efforts. Scientists estimate the costs of climate change in New York State will rise
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Join us in Albany New York to Lobby the New York State Legislature for the 2020 Environmental Bond Act that will restore ecology and lower risk from flooding. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 New York State Capital Albany, NY Click here to rsvp: bit.ly/2020Bond
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Join the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at a Rebuild by Design Meadowlands Public Meeting to discuss project improvements throughout the project area including flood risk reduction elements and ecological and community features. The Rebuild By Design Meadowlands Flood Protection Project is a comprehensive urban water management project designed to reduce the risk
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Politico: With the Trump administration pulling funding for a comprehensive resiliency study in New Jersey and New York, local governments are increasingly on their own to pursue costly efforts to bolster their shorelines in the face of rising sea levels and more intense storms. So far, few projects have been completed to better protect the
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US News: Hoboken, one of the areas in New Jersey hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, is making progress toward completing a large public park that will double as a reservoir for nearly 2 million gallons of storm water to prevent it from flooding city streets. On Monday, officials announced the awarding of a $14 million federal grant to
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The awareness of city and county staff, community residents and other local stakeholders to the City of San Rafael’s significant vulnerability to flooding and sea level rise was heightened through the Bionic Team’s Elevate San Rafael project as part of Resilient by Design. The deep research and conceptual designs developed by the Bionic team, alongside
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All Bay Collective (ABC) team member and UC Berkeley Professor Kristina Hill worked with the East Oakland Neighborhood Initiative to explore groundwater conditions in East Oakland as part of a semester-long case study for graduate students. Kristina has been working with her students to map soil contamination in relation to groundwater flow directions, and continue to
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Since the Resilient by Design Challenge ended, graduates from the “Designing Our Own Solutions” course developed as part of the challenge, continued the work together to advance resilience strategies. They formed a steering committee and launched a new organization called The Marin City’s People’s Plan with seed funding of $250,000. The steering committee practices deep
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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) received an SB1 Advanced Adaptation Planning Grant from Caltrans, and is providing matching funds, to conduct a detailed sea level rise and flooding analysis for the Dumbarton Bridge West Approach and the impacted areas of the cities of East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Through this analysis, local stakeholders, property
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