11/16/2022New York received over $26B in disaster relief in last decade, topping other statesPolitico: NEW YORK — The state has received more than $26 billion in federal relief over the last decade to recover from natural disasters, …
11/16/20229 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade, report findsGrist: Ninety percent of all counties in the United States have experienced a weather disaster over the past decade, and these climate-fuele…
11/16/202290 percent of all US counties experienced climate disaster: researchThe Hill: The vast majority of U.S. counties have experienced a climate disaster in the past decade, according to a new report from Rebuild …
11/15/2022Landscape architects shift emphasis to the ecosystemThe Manila Times: LANDSCAPE architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creati…
11/03/202210 years after Superstorm Sandy: rebuilding, redesigning and rethinking New York City6sqft: A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it …
10/31/2022The right vision a decade after Superstorm SandyNY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking t…
10/31/2022What all cities can learn from New Jersey 10 years after Hurricane SandyFast Company: Hurricane Sandy dropped 500 million gallons of water on Hoboken. Here's how the city is preparing for the next superstorm. I’…
10/31/2022Coastal barriers finally begin to rise around NYC — but can they stop the next Hurricane Sandy?Gothamist: If Hurricane Sandy were to occur again today, many of the same coastal neighborhoods it destroyed would be inundated again. But a…
10/31/2022Opinion: The right vision a decade after Superstorm SandyNY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking t…
10/31/2022New York’s Post-Sandy Climate Projects Still UnfinishedGoverning: A decade after Hurricane Sandy, three of the city's climate resiliency projects are nowhere near completion. The "Raised Shorelin…
10/31/2022Max Politics Podcast: The Environmental Bond Act Ballot Proposal and Other Key Climate IssuesGotham Gazette:October 13, 2022 - Max Politics Podcast: The Environmental Bond Act Ballot Proposal and Other Key Climate Issues Proposa…
10/31/2022To ensure our society is built to survive the next century, we must all become climate fundersPhilanthropy News Digest: From record-breaking heat waves across Europe to deadly droughts and wildfires in the western United States, this …
10/31/2022A decade after Sandy, Manhattan’s flood barrier is finally in sight — sort ofSalon: The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October…
10/27/2022Hurricane Sandy Devastated Coney Island 10 Years Ago. So Why Has NYC Added Almost 2,000 Homes to the Area Since?The City: Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. C…
10/24/2022Buy-In for Buyouts: 10 Years After Sandy, New York Considers New Funding for Voluntary RelocationCity Limits: As the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, increased frequency and intensity of storms has led to conversations…
10/24/2022A Plan to Save a Beloved Park From Flooding Has Angered Its Biggest FansNY Times: A resiliency plan would tear down Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan and rebuild it on higher ground, but some residents say it goes t…
10/24/2022Hurricane Sandy: Here’s a 10-year timeline of post-storm resiliency projectsSI Advance: Ten years ago Hurricane Sandy ravaged Staten Island’s shoreline, leaving damage that would take years to repair. In the years fo…
10/06/2022The Living Breakwaters Could Be NJ’s Newest Defense Against Storm SurgeNew Jersey Digest Magazine: Residents of New Jersey are no strangers to storm surge. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy battered the coastal towns of …
09/15/2022New York’s $4.2B environmental bond act getting big boost from advocatesNY Daily News: Advocates are spending big to back a state plan to borrow $4.2 billion to help brace New York’s aging infrastructure against …
08/30/2022Army Corps prefers small flood gates to large storm surge barriersNY1: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers quietly announced earlier this month that it favors a plan to build several small flood gates at the m…
07/13/2022Make NYC a sponge: Report calls for green infrastructure to protect from extreme rainfallSI Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City, Staten Island saw levels of rainfall not witnessed in recent …
07/12/2022City’s latest plan to face down flooding: Inflatable dams, sandbags to at-risk homesNY1: Darinko Mrvica and his family have lived in his well-manicured brick home in Whitestone, Queens, for 40 years. The basement floods abou…
07/09/2022City Releases ‘Band-Aid’ Plan for Coping With Heavy RainfallCity Limits: The Adams administration released a plan Thursday to address heavy rainfall in the immediate lead-up to and aftermath of an ext…
07/08/2022Rainproofing New York City is an achievable goalNY Daily News Opinion, by Amy Chester and Lot Locher: Last summer, back-to-back heavy rainfalls broke two records 10 days apart, leaving 13 …
06/16/2022‘We’re going to help people’Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County commissioners this week approved an initial slate of 10 projects to address disparities exposed by t…
06/06/2022Will New Yorkers Vote “Green” This Fall? The $4.2 Billion Environmental Bond Act, ExplainedExaminer Plus: In November, New York voters have the opportunity to greenlight a landmark $4.2 Environmental Bond Act, which, if approved, w…
05/12/2022Cities Brace for Apocalyptic Flooding As New Age of Super Storms DawnsNewsweek: There are a million ways to die in New York City but drowning in a rainstorm is not something many New Yorkers have ever worried a…
05/09/2022Longmont early childhood village part of American Rescue Act proposalsLongmont Leader: A $1.5 million infusion of “seed money” for an early childhood community village in southeast Longmont is one of the propos…
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…
11/16/2021NYC’S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIGHT RISING SEASNYC'S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIGHT RISING SEASNYC'S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIG…
11/15/2021FDR DRIVE TEAR-DOWN AND MANHATTAN LAND EXTENSION EYED IN DOWNTOWN FLOOD PLANThe City: A higher waterfront and a lower highway may be on tap for Lower Manhattan. The city has a new proposal for protecting the …
11/11/2021HOUSING, ECONOMY, ISOLATION AMONG COMMUNITY CONCERNS IN BOULDER COUNTY SURVEYLongmont Ledger: Initial findings from Boulder County’s wide-reaching American Rescue Plan, or ARPA, funding survey were revealed in a …
11/03/2021HOW NEW YORK IS FIGHTING TO PROTECT CITY FROM RISING FLOOD THREATSGood Morning America: Watch here.…
10/27/2021GOVERNORS ISLAND CLIMATE RESEARCH HUB HOPEFULS INCLUDE EX-BLOOMBERG DEPUTY MAYORThe City: Governors Island is awash in ideas for a new climate research hub on the New York Harbor haven — including from influential f…
10/25/2021U.S. CITIES ARE NOT READY FOR CLIMATE DISASTERSDame Magazine: Water demands a place to flow. In New York City, a place deemed a “concrete jungle,” however, rivers, wetlands, oceans,…
10/14/2021GROUND UNBROKEN, EAST RIVER PARK PROJECT SHOWS CITY’S STEEP RESILIENCY LEARNING CURVENY1: East River Park is still here. Earlier this year, the city told residents to expect construction to start in the spr…
10/07/2021NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS: ONE REMEDY FOR TWO ILLSGreenBiz: First, the bad news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that the world is already lock…
10/04/2021QUESTIONS, CONCERNS LOOM IN WAKE OF NYC MAYOR DE BLASIO’S BLUEPRINTSi Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved into New York City, homes and cars were flooded under unprecedented rainfall that …
10/04/2021DDC AND NYC PARKS DEPARTMENT SHOWCASES EAST RIVER PARK RESILIENCY CONSTRUCTIONAMNY: The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the Parks Department recently took amNewYork Metro on a tour of the East Rive…
09/28/2021SCAPE’S KATE ORFF UNCOVERS NATURE IN DISGUISECultured: Until recently, it might have been fair to say that much of Kate Orff’s work was about revealing natural systems hidden in ur…
09/20/2021IDA FORCES CITY TO CONFRONT A LONG TO-DO LIST TO PREPARE FOR EXTREME CLIMATENY1: The City Council has a “crown jewel” piece of legislation it is ready to pass to help the city adapt urban infrastructure to the n…
09/20/2021HOW CAN NEW YORK CITY PREPARE FOR THE NEXT IDA? HERE’S A TO-DO LISTNew York Times: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York this month, the storm’s ferocity shocked the city. Even with met…
09/18/2021IDA FLOODED THEIR HOMES. NOW, RESIDENTS OF THIS DEVASTATED S.I. BLOCK WONDER, WHAT COMES NEXT?SI Advance: The rain fell viscously, bringing a torrent of water and debris to the bottom of Caswell Avenue in Graniteville. Cars were subme…
09/10/2021EXHIBIT EXPLORES HOW RISING SEA LEVELS THREATEN NYC & BEYONDGothamist: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region, it brought devastating flooding and caused the deaths of a…
09/04/2021IDA-DELUGED NYC DRAINAGE SYSTEM ALL BUT FORGOTTEN IN CLIMATE BATTLEThe City: The unprecedented rainfall that remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped Wednesday night made New York City’s climate vulnerabilities…
09/04/2021‘GOD’S WORK’: INSIDE THE BOOMING WORLD OF DISASTER RESPONSENBC News: J. Lee Driskell was already on the road from her home in Brooksville, Florida, to Louisiana in her camper — the “Hurric…
09/03/2021KEEPING NYC’S HEAD ABOVE WATER: LESSONS FROM THE DELUGENY Daily News: Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me, and I’ve spe…
09/01/2021ADAMS’ CLIMATE CHANGE PLANS ARE LARGELY UNKNOWNPOLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change. The effects of global warming are…
08/09/2021OSTRICHE CONTRO URAGANIIl Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni …
07/13/2021TRASHING THE COMMUNITY-BACKED BIG U: EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCE MOVES FORWARD DESPITE LOCAL OPPOSIArchinect: In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy crashed into the East Coast. Causing more than $70 billion in damage, the s…
06/21/2021ADAPTABILITY, PARTNERSHIPS KEY IN RESILIENT CITIES: PANELThe Straits Times: Last June, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, people in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States could go on safe…
05/17/2021USE THE JOBS PLAN AS A CATALYST FOR THE TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE WE WANT | OPINION BY AMY CHESTERNewsweek: President Joe Biden's announcement of a $2 trillion plan to rebuild infrastructure and reshape our economy was…
05/13/2021GROUND BROKEN ON $230 MILLION ‘REBUILD BY DESIGN’ FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECTNJ Digs: One of the largest infrastructure ventures in the history of New Jersey has finally kicked off after years of planning and further …
05/07/20218 YEARS AFTER SANDY, $230M HOBOKEN FLOOD PLAN GETS KICKOFFNBC: More than eight years after Superstorm Sandy pushed the Hudson River over its banks and left Hoboken residents without power or wa…
05/07/2021OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND ON REBUILD BY DESIGNHudson Reporter: The resilient infrastructure project, made possible by $230 million in Superstorm Sandy recovery funding from the U.S. Depa…
04/26/2021HOBOKEN, JERSEY CITY AND BAYONNE PART OF REGIONAL COALITION TO FIGHT URBAN FLOODINGTapinto: When large swathes of your cities were developed on land at or below sea level that had previously served as tidal wetland…
04/26/2021AS BOULDER CONTINUES WORK ON PONDEROSA MOBILE HOME PARK PROJECT, RESIDENTS REMAIN HOPEFUL BUT…As Boulder continues work on Ponderosa Mobile Home Park project, residents remain hopeful but uncertain about what the future holds. Daily C…
04/14/2021NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN CLIMATE RESILIENCECommonwealth Magazine (OPINION): GOV. BAKER’S RECENT signing of a sweeping climate bill into law codifies emissions reduction targ…
02/19/2021AMAZING BUILDINGS DESIGNED BY BJARKE INGELS GROUPMy Modern Met: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is one of the most popular contemporary architects in the world. His firm, Bjarke Ingels Group…
02/03/2021RESILIENCE AND COMMUNITY WITH KAI-UWE BERGMANNThe COVID-19 Pandemic is a disruptive moment for our world, and it’s poised to spur transformative shifts in design, from how we experience …
01/27/2021THESE INNOVATORS ARE TRANSFORMING NYC’S WATERFRONT GREEN SPACESArchitectual Digest: A fitness center, an orchestra stage, a forum for peaceful protest—Williamsburg’s Domino Park and waterfront spaces lik…
01/25/2021ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT WOULD SUPPORT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBSState of Politics: The passage of an environmental bond act would inject billions of dollars into the economy and support 65,000 jobs in New…
12/22/2020NATURE-BASED APPROACHES TO URBAN SHORELINE PROTECTIONBioHabitats:Over the last 70 years, the world’s urban population has increased nearly six-fold, and much of that urbanization has occurred a…
12/22/2020HURRICANE SANDY BATTERED NYC 8 YEARS AGO.The Counter: Hurricane Sandy battered NYC 8 years ago. Since then, how has the city shored up against future superstorms? Oyster castle…
12/22/2020DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR HOBOKEN REBUILD BY DESIGN PROJECTHudson Reporter: While most people have kept a close eye on Washington D. C. and the latest omnibus-spending bill due to much-needed coronav…
12/09/2020BARELY ABOVE WATERNJ.COM: When Hurricane Sandy hit Atlantic City in 2012, floodwaters swept up to the second step of the buildings at Julissa Carmona’s apartm…
11/02/2020NATURE ISN’T AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DESTROYERNY DAILY NEWS: by Amy Chester This week marks the eighth anniversary since Superstorm Sandy devastated our region. Perhaps understandably…
08/21/2020JUDGE TOSSES LAWSUIT, PAVING WAY FOR BURIAL AND REBUILDING OF EAST RIVER PARKThe City: The path’s been cleared for a huge burial — and rebuilding — of Manhattan’s East River Park. New York Supreme Court Judge …
08/20/2020JUDGE RULES EAST SIDE RESILIENCY PROJECT CAN STARTThe Village Sun: Residents fighting to save East River Park from being razed and rebuilt for a coastal-resiliency project suffered a painful…
08/16/2020COVID KILLED NEW YORK’S COASTAL RESILIENCE BILL. PEOPLE OF COLOR COULD BEAR MUCH OF THE COSTClimate Insider: Arlene Phipps' string of bad luck started the night Hurricane Sandy crashed into New York's coast. Fierce winds pel…
08/01/2020THE CLIMATE THREAT REMAINSTimes Union: THE ISSUE: While governments and society are focused on other issues, the planet continues to warm dangerously. …
07/15/2020THE PROBLEM WITH SOLUTIONSPlaces Journal: In 1839, if you wanted to take a boat from coastal Matagorda, Texas, to the inland town of Wharton, you would have had …
07/10/2020TO FACE FLOODING, NEW YORK REGION NEEDS BIG BUCKS AND BOLD MOVES: REPORTCity Limits: When New Yorkers cast their ballots in November’s presidential race, they will also have a chance to vote on a $3 billion bond …
06/01/2020STATES WARN THAT VIRUS MAY DOOM CLIMATE PROJECTSNYTimes: A billion-dollar program to protect cities from climate change is at risk of failing because of the pandemic. Connecticut is pre…
05/06/2020RICHARD MULLANE ON THE ‘COLLECT & CONNECT’ STRATEGY FOR SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND COASTAL RESILIENCYThe Architects Newspaper: How do you make waterfront locations resilient to the problems caused by climate change? How can you support …
05/04/2020TIME TO HARNESS THE WISDOM OF CROWDS: DE BLASIO AND CUOMO SHOULD ASK REGULAR NEW YORKERSNew York Daily News: Last week, both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo appointed task-forces and sector advisory councils&n…
04/02/2020CUOMO, LAWMAKERS INCLUDE $3 BILLION ENVIRONMENTAL BOND IN STATE BUDGETAlbany Times Union Blog: Voters in New York will decide later this year if the state should borrow $3 billion to spend on various environmen…
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…