03/08/2022Lessons from New York: What makes a community turn against climate adaptation?Grist: Robert Moses, the public official responsible for transforming much of New York City’s landscape in the 20th century, built East Rive…
03/04/2022Moveable Flood Gate Installed at East Side Coastal ResiliencyCommissioner Thomas Foley of the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced that the first massive gate that will help protec…
02/13/2022Updated report finds the New York State Environmental Bond Act would support 84,000 jobs and $8.7 billion in project spending under new funding proposalNEW YORK (Feb. 11, 2022) — AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, and Rebuild by Design, a leading advocate for resilien…
02/13/2022Environmental Bond act supporters: Thousands more jobs created by increasing planSpectrum News: Thousands of additional jobs would be created by adding $1 billion in borrowing to a proposed bond act meant to harden infras…
01/13/2022A new mayor, a new approach to climate?NY DAILY NEWS OPINION: It’s a new day — or so they say when there is a new mayoral administration ready to take hold of what the last has no…
12/29/2021NEW YORK CITY ANNOUNCES THE MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR FINANCIAL DISTRICT AND SEAPORT CLIMATE RESILIENCE MAArchinect: The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency (MOCR) have release…
12/23/2021Podcast: MANAGED RETREAT: WHEN CLIMATE HITS HOMEClimate One: When it comes to rising seas and other climate threats, how do we figure out when to stay and when to go? The con…
12/17/2021How one billion oysters could protect NYC from the next superstormNBC News: Kate Orff is the first landscape architect to ever win a MacArthur “genius grant”. She's a pioneer in the green infrastructure mov…
12/16/2021City of Hoboken to construct fourth resiliency parkNJ Insider: Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla and the City of Hoboken today announced it is seeking a qualified consultant to engage in an open public pr…
12/10/2021ZEROING IN: CARBON NEUTRAL 2050 EPISODE 8NHK: People across the globe draw life from our oceans. They navigate over the surface. They're nourished by the creatures below. But m…
12/10/2021LEARNING HOW TO LIVE A NEW NORMAL: UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN NYCNBC: June 23, 1988, marks the date that Dr. James Hansen, the former director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies, gave a testimony i…
12/08/2021BUILDING BACK BETTER FROM COVID IN BOULDER COUNTYRecovery from the COVID-19 pandemic poses a pivotal moment to build back communities better so that they can withstand future setbacks. On M…