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05/27/2025FLOOD RISK = FINANCIAL RISK: NEW JERSEYAs sea levels rise and storms intensify, New Jersey faces mounting risks to its people, homes, communities, and economy. Nearly 1.3 million …
05/06/2025Best Practices for Voluntary Home Buyouts: Recommendations to NYS Office of Resilient Homes and CommunitiesIn partnership with national experts in climate migration, housing buyouts, and climate adaptation, Rebuild by Design published a white pape…
04/22/2025NYC Parks as Climate InfrastructureNew York City’s Parks are not just recreational spaces—they are vital infrastructure that can protect communities, reduce urban heat, and ma…
02/19/2025Atlas of Accountability: County-Level Federal Disaster Declarations (2011-2024)Between 2011 and 2024, 99.5% of congressional districts experienced at least one federally declared major disaster due to extreme weather, a…
01/28/202510 Projects, 1 Mission: A Rainproof NYCFrom storms that disrupt daily life to flash floods that threaten homes and infrastructure, the impacts of heavy rainfall are becoming incre…
11/13/2024Rainproof NYC: Recommendations from the Working GroupsThe “Rainproofing New York City: Recommendations from the Working Groups,” report documents the recommendations that came out of the working…
07/12/2024Atlas of Disaster: New Jersey Between 2011-2023, New Jersey experienced 14 climate disasters, leaving each of the state’s 21 counties with at least five disaster declarat…
04/29/2024NYS Adaptation Practitioners Network As the practice of climate adaptation grows organically across New York State and around the world, the planning and implementation of clima…
03/20/2024Rebuild by Design Releases Atlas of DisasterNew Research shows that 90 percent of U.S. Counties - over 300 Million people in the US - have experienced a federal climate disaster betwee…
08/03/2023Atlas of Disaster: Vermont ON THE HEELS OF EXTREME FLOODING IN VERMONT, NEW REPORT SHOWS THAT VERMONT EXPERIENCED 17 MAJOR DISASTERS BETWEEN 2011-2021, CALLS FOR NEW D…