03/30/2018COMMUNITY BOARD CONSIDERS FLOOD BARRIER PARK FOR MANHATTAN’S EAST SIDECurbed: This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposa…
03/30/2018IN-DEPTH: CAN HOUSTON APPLY NEW YORK’S BIG THINKING ON FLOOD PROJECTS?Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding. But, can resilien…
03/26/2018THIS IS HOW HIGH NYC’S SEA LEVELS WILL RISE IF WE DON’T TAKE CLIMATE ACTIONInhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the me…
03/22/2018GREEN DESIGN OF BUILDINGS AND COMMUNITIES CREATES HEALTHIER, SUSTAINABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENTSMississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way thi…
03/13/2018THE LONG ROAD TO STORM RESILIENCY: WORKING ON SANDY RECOVERYPatch: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused billions of dollars in damage to the East Coast, the federal government mad…
02/22/2018BOULDER BARRELS: WATER BRINGS COMMUNITIES AND PLANNERS TOGETHER IN COLORADOZilient.org: Revered for its natural beauty, the city of Boulder in the United States is a popular destination for those looking to enj…
02/20/2018TEAM OF ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS, AND URBAN PLANNERS TO DESIGN COASTAL RESILIENCENasdaq: WSP (TSX:WSP), Arcadis (EURONEXT:ARCAD), Waggonner & Ball, and Yale Urban Design Workshop today announced their selection t…
01/31/2018HASSELL+ AND MVRDV TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BAY AREAInhabitat: A HASSELL+-led design team that includes MVRDV has unveiled their preliminary proposed design strategy for ta…
01/18/2018BIG UNVEILS SCHEME TO PROTECT SAN FRANCISCO CREEK FROM FLOODINGDezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by cl…
01/16/2018RAISED STEPPING STONES ALLOW DUTCH BRIDGE TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE DURING A FLOODDezeen: Rising water levels don't cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accesse…
01/11/2018DESIGN COMPETITION TACKLES SITES AROUND BAY AREA TO ADDRESS RISING WATERSSan Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscape…
01/11/20185 BERGEN TOWNS TO BENEFIT FROM DEP MEADOWLANDS FLOODING PLANNorth Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could …
12/20/2017CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PREVENTING NATURAL DISASTERSWYPR: 2017 is looking to be a record setting year when it comes to natural disasters in the United States. Climate change and a growing…
12/12/2017ISLAND OFFERS PLACES FOR UNIQUE CLIMATE SOLUTIONSAlameda Sun: Several Alameda locations have been nominated to be part of a study that aims to provide unique solutions to locations mos…
11/22/20176 IDEAS TO TRANSFORM THE BAY AREA AND STALL THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSECo.design: Unfortunately, it usually takes a natural disaster to remind cities how vulnerable they are–and how urgent long-range resili…
11/16/2017RACING RISING SEAS IN THE BAY AREA: DESIGN TEAMS ‘FLOAT’ SOME BIG IDEASKQED: After months of study, ten carefully-picked design teams are unveiling their first ideas for giving the Bay Area a makeover to co…