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LI Herald: The Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery hosted an environmental review hearing at the Rockville Centre Public Library last week on a proposed $35 million project to rejuvenate Hempstead Lake State Park. The project seeks to restore the 521-acre park’s northwest and northeast ponds and to create new areas for treating storm-water runoff and […]

Curbed NY: Hurricane Sandy, which happened six years ago this week, notably exposed the dire need to improve New York’s infrastructure so that it can stand up to the increasing threat posed by sea level rise. In the years since the storm, city and state agencies have put many different resiliency efforts into place with

John Hopkins University: If libraries didn’t yet exist, the concept wouldn’t stand a chance of getting off the ground in today’s America, suggests sociologist Eric Klinenberg. Imagine a group presenting that idea to a modern Congress: Vast offerings of books, knowledge, and programming, free to all without restriction simply “because you’re a human being,” Klinenberg said. They

northjersey: Last week, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the results of his audit of NJ Transit. The audit, he said, found a “lack of critical future-focused strategic planning” and found funding to be “inadequate, uncertain, and unsustainable,” among other major failings. But – in addition to the problems – the audit also began to outline possible solutions.

The Press of Atlantic City: Dutch flood control expert Edgar J. Westerhof stood in front of hundreds of floodplain managers at Bally’s Atlantic City on Wednesday and showed an aerial photo of an intensely developed Atlantic City, from the ocean to the bay. “Is this a coastal calamity in slow motion?” he asked the crowd attending

CityLab: In nearly every major coastal city on Earth, elected officials are going Dutch—placing their faith and the future of their communities in the hands of Dutch engineering firms who are exporting their brand of climate adaptation to anyone that will listen. In the United States, their ideas have dominated the recovery and rebuilding efforts that