VTdigger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up their sleeves to tackle so many complex issues from affordability to housing to public safety and school construction. While there are many important policies the Vermont legislative Climate Solutions Caucus is working […]
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disasters. These catastrophes have forced carriers to pay out billions in claims, and many have responded by raising premiums in disaster-prone states like Florida and Oregon or leaving certain markets altogether. But many of these companies also provide coverage for fossil fuel projects, like
Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects Read More »
TimeOut: Throughout the past few years in NYC, episodes of heavy rainfall have become more and more common. What’s more, the precipitation has been affecting New Yorkers’ day-to-day activities, sometimes even putting people in danger. In an effort to tackle the issue and find ways to solve it, Mayor Eric Adams’ Office of Climate and Environmental
Here is how NYC will be dealing with the heavy rain problem Read More »
Smart Cities Dive: New York City kicked off a “Rainproof NYC” initiative on Jan. 9 to identify innovative ways the city can address the impacts of increased heavy rainfall. City agencies, nonprofits and other stakeholders will meet regularly over the next six months in three working groups that will focus on addressing gaps in infrastructure and risk management, developing
More Heavy Rainfall, Flooding Prompt NYC to Create Innovation Working Groups Read More »
Yale Environment 360: On a recent morning in Asser Levy Playground, on Manhattan’s East Side, a group of retirees traded serves on a handball court adjacent to a recently completed 10-foot-high floodwall. Had a sudden storm caused the East River to start overtopping this barrier, a 79-foot-long floodgate would have begun gliding along a track,
After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline Read More »
The Guardian: Living Breakwaters by Kate Orff at Scape Studio. Read More>>>
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Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf courses may come to mind. MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Kate Orff has a grander and more ecologically ambitious vision. Orff, director of Columbia University’s Urban Design Program, believes that architects should do more than just create beautiful
Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience Read More »
WNYC: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, founder of New York Times initiative Headway, which is focused on big global challenges and paths to progress, and the author of The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press, 2022), talks about the work Hoboken has done since the flooding during Sandy to handle storm surges and heavy downpours. Listen Here>>>
How Hoboken Is Responding to Climate Change Read More »
dezeen: The increasing need to protect cities from environmental hazards is a chance to transform communities for the better, says Rebuild By Design managing director Amy Chester in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Rebuild by Design began in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in New York as a competition run by the US government to instigate projects that would
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf courses may come to mind. MacArthur “Genius Award” winner Kate Orff has a grander and more ecologically ambitious vision. Read More>>>
Ecosystems as Infrastructure: A New Way of Looking at Climate Resilience Read More »
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