04/01/2020BOND ACT INCLUDES VOLUNTARY BUYOUTS, GREEN BUILDINGS AND WATER INFRASTRUCTUREPolitico: An agreement between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a $3 billion bond act includes some broad categories for the use of the fu…
03/25/2020WHAT A CORONAVIRUS RECOVERY COULD LOOK LIKEGrist: Michael Berkowitz is a student of disaster, and a guru on how cities weather them. As the former executive director of the nonpr…
02/27/2020NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY GO IT ALONE ON RESILIENCY IN WAKE OF ARMY CORPS DECISIONPolitico: With the Trump administration pulling funding for a comprehensive resiliency study in New Jersey and New York, local governments a…
02/25/2020HOBOKEN GETS BOOST FOR PARK THAT WILL ALSO HOLD FLOODWATERSUS News: Hoboken, one of the areas in New Jersey hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, is making progress toward completing a larg…
02/24/2020HOBOKEN FLOOD RESILIENCY PARK AWARDED $14 MILLION GRANT TO HELP COMPLETE PROJECTWPIX: A $14 million grant is headed for Hoboken to help the city build a park designed to capture stormwater. The park will be the c…
02/19/2020LOWER EAST SIDERS WORRY ABOUT LOSS OF TREES, PARK SPACE AT MEETING ON EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCYAMNY: Representatives from the Parks Department, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and the design firm AECOM addressed Manhat…
02/19/2020LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS SHIFT EMPHASIS TO THE ECOSYSTEMABC: Landscape architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creative ways …
02/10/2020OPINION: ‘RESTORE MOTHER NATURE’ ACT WILL SAFEGUARD OUR ENVIRONMENTby Basil Seggos Buffalo News: In his State of the State address, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed the first environmental bond act in N…
02/10/2020BOND ACT IS THE FIRST STEP TO NY DEALING WITH CLIMATE RISKCity Limits: Opinion by Carlos Scissura, New York Building Congress In December, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued disaster declarations for 1…
02/08/2020EAST RIVER PARK FLOOD PROJECT OPPONENTS SUE NYC IN BID TO STOP ITNY Post: Opponents of the plan to bury East River Park in the name of flood protection are suing the city to stop the $1.4 billion proj…
02/07/2020LOWER EAST SIDE FLOOD PROTECTION PLAN THREATENED BY LAWSUITCurbed: A transformational plan to fill in and raise East River Park by eight feet is facing a legal battle that threatens to stall flo…
01/14/2020LAWMAKERS, ADVOCATES AWAIT DETAILS ON ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACTPolitico: Although they don't know exactly how Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration wants to spend $3 billion for environmental projects, lawm…
01/13/2020CUOMO’S CALL FOR A $3 BILLION ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT COULD STRIKE A CHORDTimes Union: Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to be betting that climate change is on the minds of enough New Yorkers that they’ll approve a $…
01/10/2020CUOMO’S $3B RESTORE MOTHER NATURE BOND ACT IS A BIG DEALAdirondack Almanac: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 State of the State speech included two big pieces of good news for the Adirondack Park…
01/09/2020CUOMO PROPOSES $3 BILLION BOND ACT FOR NY’S ENVIRONMENTPost Standard: Gov. Andrew Cuomo today proposed a $3 billion environmental bond act aimed at creating what he called the nation’s most …
12/30/2019WHAT CLIMATE RISKS MEAN FOR NYC’S FOOD SUPPLYCity Limits: To feed its 8.5 million residents, New York City relies on an interconnected food supply chain clustered around just six m…