Fox 10: This morning the City of Fairhope turned to its citizens to ask them what they see for the future of the K-1 Center property. The city agreed to purchase the K-1 Center in March, taking on a project that has been a long time in the making. After some complaints about lack of public […]
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Ligniappe Weekly: The city of Fairhope is hosting a community discussion on the future of its K-1 Center Wednesday, but at this point the property still belongs to the Baldwin County School Board. The fom1er school building is one of three properties the city has agreed to purchase from the school board, but while the $4
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Fast Company: Janette Kim started designing board games about climate change after working on scenario planning with her architecture students at Colombia University–and seeing that the typical process, which architects and many cities use to make decisions, was fairly boring. Board games brought the scenarios to life. “They’re great at mixing together a lot of complexity
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Slate: Bill de Blasio has plans to part the East River—and expects New Yorkers to follow him 500 feet into the estuary, to a new land that will protect downtown from the sea. On Thursday, New York’s mayor reiterated the city’s intent to preserve its core by reclaiming a slice of New York Harbor between the Brooklyn Bridge
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Daily News: Mayor de Blasio proposed extending the South Street Seaport area by two city blocks into the East River — part of a $10 billion effort to fend off rising sea levels as a result of climate change. “We had to find something that would work, no matter how expensive or ambitious it was,” de
New York Magazine: Six years ago, Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City. The storm put 51 square miles of it under water. Seventeen thousand homes were damaged or destroyed. Forty-four New Yorkers lost their lives. We don’t debate global warming in New York City. Not anymore. The only question is where to build the barriers
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Daily Mail: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has revealed a plan to protect Lower Manhattan from rising sea levels by surrounding it with earthen berms and extending its shoreline by as much as 500 feet (152 meters). The plan piggybacks on a climate resilience study released by the city today, which found that roughly
Politico: Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday unveiled his latest plan to protect Lower Manhattan from the threat of climate change, proposing to extend the existing shoreline into the East River to insulate the financial district from sea level rise and storm surges. But with a sticker price of $10 billion, de Blasio himself said it’s
NY1: A new climate resiliency plan announced by the mayor on Thursday would expand Manhattan’s southern shoreline up to 500 feet into the East River and build new flooding prevention measures to protect the shoreline from destruction like that unleashed by hurricane Sandy in 2012. “Global warming is an extraordinary threat to all of our country,
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A group of community members have formed the East River Alliance to discuss issues regarding the East Side Costal Resilience Plan such as: – Environmental concerns– Construction mitigation and nearby public space improvements– Stewardship and future park facilities (new construction, renovations and preservation of facilities)– Outreach Join community members on Wednesday, March 13th PS15 –
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