08/26/2024
News Journal: The Six and Twenty Book Club met at Jill Borton’s home on Aug. 9. Ruth Dooley was the program leader for the day.…
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08/23/2024
CT Insider Opinion by Amy Chester and Tom Swan…
08/23/2024
Amsterdam News: Normally, Estefani Nuñez parks the small yellow school bus she drives each day by the side of her home in the Rosedale neigh…
08/21/2024
Clover Leaf: Ninety percent of counties in the US have endured floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or other natural disasters since 2011, accordi…
08/20/2024
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: At its most basic, the goal of the Disaster Dollar Database is to start to make visible federal …
08/20/2024
Grist: Hello and welcome to week three of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m J…
08/20/2024
Carnegie Endowment: The rising pace and cost of disasters is cause for alarm, both because of the likelihood of major disruption in so many …
08/20/2024
Grist: It’s a truism among emergency managers and disaster experts that no region or area is safe from disasters, but the places in the Unit…
08/16/2024
Capital Press Room: In light of state lawmakers looking to revive New York’s task force on sea level rise, we examine the threat of rising s…
08/09/2024
NHPR: A new report from the non-profit Rebuild by Design shows that New Hampshire has received 18 disaster declarations between 2011 and 202…
08/07/2024
Crains New York Business: New Yorkers jogging along the East River bike path below 23rd Street are finding something new — a 10-foot concret…
08/05/2024
Climate Proof: Want to know how often your home county has been hit by extreme weather events? Then this new map is for you. The Atlas of Ac…
08/02/2024
Government Technology: A new tool from Rebuild by Design shows climate change is an equal opportunity hazard. But spending money ahead of ti…
07/31/2024
Voa Learning English: When it comes to disasters in the United States, most people think of major storms and earthquakes that hit coastal ar…
07/30/2024
Tulsa World: Separate data reported by the Rebuild by Design project of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University support a …
07/30/2024
Attitude with Arnie Arnesen Podcast: We talk with Amy Chester, Managing Director of Rebuild by Design.
The organization has used data colle…
07/26/2024
Waterbury Roundabout: Rebuild by Design, an outreach effort within the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, last week announced the creati…
07/25/2024
SI Advance: Hurricane Sandy devastated Staten Island in 2012, destroying homes, impacting livelihoods and claiming lives.…
07/24/2024
AP: Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people died and 300 homes w…
07/24/2024
ABC: While California led the nation with 34 disaster declarations, some 36 states had 10 or more, indicating the pain of climate change is …
07/24/2024
WCNC: When folks think about natural disasters, their mind immediately goes to the coast, but experts say otherwise. New data shows inland c…
07/24/2024
Fox 56: Kentuckians are no strangers to severe weather. Tornadoes, windstorms, mudslides, landslides, and even flooding are all events that …
07/23/2024
Leader Telegram: A new online tool shows just how fortunate Eau Claire County has been over the past couple decades. Created by Rebuild by D…
07/23/2024
WKMS: Newly published research shows Kentucky has some of the most disaster-plagued counties in America.…
07/23/2024
KVCR: NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge developed an Atlas of Disaster and Accountability that shows the disaster count and FEMA funds is…
07/23/2024
WBBJ: When it comes to extreme weather and other so-called natural disasters, people generally look to the hurricane or earthquake-prone coa…
07/23/2024
Dev Discourse: An Atlas by New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge charts 713 FEMA-declared disasters, showing Kentucky's frequ…
07/20/2024
Washington Post: A 2% surcharge on property insurance policies, mandatory fees on the oil and gas industries, and holding a public referendu…
07/14/2024
NJ Spotlight: Hoboken’s four resiliency parks conceal massive underground tanks that can take on about 4 million gallons of rainwater. Amy C…
07/09/2024
The Daily Beast: The heat dome blighting huge swaths of the country isn’t going away yet, as the weekend shapes up to be another brutal scor…
06/22/2024
New York Times: There’s a reason heat waves feel hotter in New York City: Concrete. And here in the city, we have a lot of it.
Our building…
06/17/2024
Washington Post:
Nearly a year after catastrophic flooding struck Vermont, the city of Barre confronts the overwhelming task of steelin…
06/14/2024
6sqft: The new park is part of the State and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded Rebuild by Design project, which combat…
05/30/2024
The City: In 2023, 7,344 one- to three-family homes sold across New York City — over $3.6 billion in sales — occurred in places that face l…
05/23/2024
Manchester Journal: In Vermont, according to the research organization, Rebuild by Design, “fourteen counties were hit hard by a historic fl…
05/22/2024
Staten Island Advance — The Living Breakwaters are in the final stretch of its $114 million project — and kayakers recently got to find out …
05/21/2024
VTdigger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up thei…
05/21/2024
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
05/20/2024
The Adirondack Almanack: A suite of environmental bills passed in the state Senate recently to mark last month’s Earth Day. One measure, del…
04/30/2024
PBS: Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, we dive in…
04/29/2024
Ingenio: L’anno dopo infatti nasce Rebuild by Design, un’organizzazione con il compito di far cooperare istituzioni locali e federali, unive…
04/25/2024
Little Green Podcast: Big storms aren’t going anywhere any time soon, so it’s essential to understand how cities like New York are adapting …
04/22/2024
CBS: How well is New York City prepared for the complexities of climate change, like flooding? Since Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, New York …
04/15/2024
Feet in Two Words: When Venezuelan migrant Bibiane Chamorro woke up on September 1st, 2021, at first, she thought she was dreaming.
She had…
04/04/2024
Wild Hope TV: New York City is famous for its towering skyscrapers and vibrant streets teeming with traffic, commerce, and cuisine. Turn bac…
04/04/2024
VT Digger: It’s just past the halfway point for the 2024 legislative session, and we are grateful to fellow lawmakers who have rolled up the…
03/31/2024
The Daily Progress: Thomas Jefferson was many things. A leader, he served as governor of Virginia, secretary of state and president of the U…
03/19/2024
Grist: The nation’s insurance industry has gone haywire in recent years amid a succession of floods, fires, and other climate-fueled disaste…
03/07/2024
Hudson County View: The Hoboken City Council unanimously approved (9-0) a $75,000 engineering contract to perform a feasibility study relate…
02/28/2024
S.I. Live – If you’ve noticed some cranes and rock structures in the waters off the Tottenville coast, you’ve been looking at a multi-millio…
01/28/2024
MSN: Being prepared to deal with extreme weather events before they happen is a major part of climate resiliency and one that is becoming in…
01/25/2024
TimeOut: Throughout the past few years in NYC, episodes of heavy rainfall have become more and more common. What's more, the precipitation h…
01/25/2024
Smart Cities Dive:
New York City kicked off a “Rainproof NYC” initiative on Jan. 9 to identify innovative ways the city can address the…
01/16/2024
Scientific American: Check out the article and graphic here.…
12/19/2023
Yale Environment 360: On a recent morning in Asser Levy Playground, on Manhattan’s East Side, a group of retirees traded serves on a handbal…
12/13/2023
The Guardian: Living Breakwaters by Kate Orff at Scape Studio. Read More>>>…
11/20/2023
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf cours…
11/17/2023
WNYC: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, founder of New York Times initiative Headway, which is focused on big global challenges and pa…
11/10/2023
dezeen: The increasing need to protect cities from environmental hazards is a chance to transform communities for the better, says Rebuild B…
11/07/2023
Yale Environment 360: When people think of landscape architecture, small-scale recreational spaces like urban parks, gardens, and golf cours…
11/03/2023
New York Times: The city of Hoboken, N.J., once a marshy outcropping that the Lenape inhabited only seasonally, hugs the Hudson River. Three…
10/30/2023
Fox weather: Superstorm Sandy pounded New York and New Jersey 11 years ago but communities are still rebuilding and hardening towns and citi…
10/25/2023
AP: HOBOKEN, N.J. A decade after they were first envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy ’s destruction, two of the largest flood co…
10/23/2023
Documented: Most 311 flood-related calls the day of the storm were coming from areas with high populations of foreign-born residents
On S…
10/20/2023
National Geographic: Flash flooding in New York City. Sinking coasts in Louisiana. To guard against the effects of climate change, these com…
10/18/2023
Scientific American: More than half of the 2.6 million residents in the Miami area will experience “climate gentrification” and pressure to …
10/12/2023
Vital City: New York must do much more to protect itself from torrential rains.
New Yorkers have once again been reminded that climate ch…
09/29/2023
THE CITY: Record rainfall soaked New York on Friday, disrupting public transportation and schools while flooding streets and homes as offici…
09/28/2023
Construction Equipment Guide: Longtime northern New Jersey residents will likely never forget Superstorm Sandy's brutal impact in the fall o…
09/27/2023
NJ Spotlight News: Several flood-prone areas in New Jersey have been earmarked by federal officials to receive additional support to protect…
09/24/2023
NY1: If you ask college students in the Bronx if they’re thinking about how climate change might affect them or their communities in the fut…
09/24/2023
Morristown Minute: State Officials Announce Two Key Projects to Safeguard Hudson River and Meadowlands Communities Against Climate Change-In…
09/24/2023
NorthJersey. com: North Jersey’s flood protection plans took a key step forward this week as the state announced new contracts totaling near…
09/20/2023
Yale Climate Connections: Very few parts of the U.S. have been untouched by extreme weather.
According to a recent report, 90% of U.S. co…
09/18/2023
ABC: America's largest cities are at the forefront of climate change. About 80% of the U.S. population live in urban settings, according to …
09/17/2023
Architectural Record: Living Breakwaters, a 2,400-linear-foot coastal resiliency project conceived to minimize future flooding and erosion r…
09/13/2023
NY Times :The United States has suffered 23 billion-dollar disasters so far in 2023, a record for this point in the year that highlights the…
09/12/2023
SI Advance: The United States has suffered 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters this year, the largest number since reco…
08/13/2023
Shore Link Network: The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has made public a proposed amendment to the Superstorm Sandy Action…
08/04/2023
The Time Argus: A timely report on natural disasters and infrastructure in Vermont shows Washington County saw 11 declared disasters over a …
08/04/2023
24/7 Wall Street: In the last 10 years, 9 out of every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a federally declared climate disast…
08/03/2023
Seven Days: A New York-based nonprofit that helps communities adapt to the climate crisis released a report on Thursday about the impact of …
07/11/2023
New York Times: The lack of a comprehensive national rainfall database and current flood maps hampers the ability to prepare for storms inte…
06/28/2023
Village Voice: In September 2021, New York City experienced historic and catastrophic flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Streets t…
06/25/2023
VT Digger: The biggest oil companies in the world made more than $200 billion in profits last year, while Vermonters were forced to pay reco…
05/25/2023
Bloomberg: An ambitious plan to more than double New York City’s investment into making the city a natural sponge for increasingly heavy rai…
05/24/2023
Arch Daily: This Earth Day, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the many benefits of nature-based solutions and recognized the imp…
05/23/2023
Staten Island Advance: The day started in a boat yard in Laurence Harbor, New Jersey. It was the kickoff point for a trip to get a first-han…
05/19/2023
Grainger Today: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent rep…
05/19/2023
The Center Square: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent …
05/19/2023
Thew News Times: Nine out of 10 U.S. counties suffered a federally-declared climate disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a recent re…
05/11/2023
SI Advance: A $107 million resiliency plan designed to blunt the power of waves during extreme weather has made steady progress since it bro…
05/03/2023
WAMC Radio: Last week, state Comptroller DiNapoli issued a new report identifying a growing cost facing local governments.
According to t…
04/22/2023
Architectural Digest: Climate change isn’t just about extreme heat and rising sea levels—another side effect of greenhouse gas emissions is …
04/19/2023
ABC: New York City is among the most densely populated coastal communities in the world preparing for an inevitable rise in sea levels, whic…
03/29/2023
WNYC: Running alongside the U.N. Water Conference, New York Water Week brings leaders across fields to share ideas and solutions for water c…
02/21/2023
Bloomberg: Storms, earthquakes, flooding. More extreme weather is putting pressure on aging infrastructure in big cities, where 68% of the w…
02/15/2023
CT Post: State officials are seeking an additional $47 million in federal aid to build and complete Resilient Bridgeport, a significant floo…
02/14/2023
WRGB Albany: A new report is warning state lawmakers that if more isn’t done to address the impacts of climate change, the more it will cost…