05/09/2022Boulder County hears proposals for $63M in federal relief moneyDaily Camera: Providing direct cash assistance to low-income families, investing in affordable housing projects and creating a mental health…
04/13/2022How Extreme Weather Has Created a Disaster for School InfrastructureWashington Post: When last summer’s devastating flood put the town of Waverly, Tenn., underwater, Richard Rye was standing on the roof of th…
03/17/2022Can oysters save New York City from the next big storm?On a recent Saturday afternoon, diners at the Brooklyn restaurant Grand Army slurped oysters drizzled in mignonette and lemon juice against …
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…
02/13/2022Environmental 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…
12/06/2021WHY NEW YORK IS UNEARTHING A BROOK IT BURIED A CENTURY AGONY Times: New York is a city surrounded by water, from the open ocean to bays to rivers. But there is also an enormous trove of water h…
12/02/2021WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD?NY Times: The day after the storm swallowed her neighborhood, Nancy Ortiz woke before dawn to buy ice. It was 2012, and Hurricane Sandy…
11/19/2021NEW YORK CITY IS BUILDING A WALL OF OYSTERS TO FEND OFF FLOODSBloomberg: Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves…