11/18/2022
CNA: New York City authorities are building a living reef housing a billion oysters on the south shore of Staten Island.
NEW YORK: A decade …
PRESS
11/16/2022
Nexus News: More than 93% of people in the U.S. live in a county hit by a severe weather disaster in the last decade, according to the new A…
11/16/2022
New York Times: The rising toll of climate change across the United States has been measured in lives lost, buildings destroyed and dollars…
11/16/2022
CNBC: Ninety percent of counties across the U.S. have experienced a flood, wildfire, hurricane or other federally declared climate disaster …
11/16/2022
Politico: NEW YORK — The state has received more than $26 billion in federal relief over the last decade to recover from natural disasters, …
11/16/2022
Grist: Ninety percent of all counties in the United States have experienced a weather disaster over the past decade, and these climate-fuele…
11/16/2022
The Hill: The vast majority of U.S. counties have experienced a climate disaster in the past decade, according to a new report from Rebuild …
11/15/2022
The Manila Times: LANDSCAPE architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creati…
11/03/2022
6sqft: A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it …
10/31/2022
NY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking t…
10/31/2022
Fast Company: Hurricane Sandy dropped 500 million gallons of water on Hoboken. Here's how the city is preparing for the next superstorm.
I’…
10/31/2022
Gothamist: If Hurricane Sandy were to occur again today, many of the same coastal neighborhoods it destroyed would be inundated again. But a…
10/31/2022
NY Daily News Opinion: This week, every newspaper and TV news channel is talking about the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy and asking t…
10/31/2022
Governing: A decade after Hurricane Sandy, three of the city's climate resiliency projects are nowhere near completion. The "Raised Shorelin…
10/31/2022
Gotham Gazette:October 13, 2022 - Max Politics Podcast: The Environmental Bond Act Ballot Proposal and Other Key Climate Issues
Proposa…
10/31/2022
Philanthropy News Digest: From record-breaking heat waves across Europe to deadly droughts and wildfires in the western United States, this …
10/31/2022
Salon: The “Big U” shows how climate adaptation can succeed. It also shows how hard it is
When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October…
10/27/2022
The City: Gleaming new high-rise towers, built to the latest standards, stand alongside older family homes, badly in need of retrofitting. C…
10/24/2022
City Limits: As the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, increased frequency and intensity of storms has led to conversations…
10/24/2022
NY 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…
10/24/2022
SI Advance: Ten years ago Hurricane Sandy ravaged Staten Island’s shoreline, leaving damage that would take years to repair. In the years fo…
10/06/2022
New Jersey Digest Magazine: Residents of New Jersey are no strangers to storm surge. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy battered the coastal towns of …
09/15/2022
NY 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 …
08/30/2022
NY1: 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…
07/13/2022
SI Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled through New York City, Staten Island saw levels of rainfall not witnessed in recent …
07/12/2022
NY1: Darinko Mrvica and his family have lived in his well-manicured brick home in Whitestone, Queens, for 40 years. The basement floods abou…
07/09/2022
City Limits: The Adams administration released a plan Thursday to address heavy rainfall in the immediate lead-up to and aftermath of an ext…
07/08/2022
NY 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
Longmont Times-Call: The Boulder County commissioners this week approved an initial slate of 10 projects to address disparities exposed by t…
06/06/2022
Examiner Plus: In November, New York voters have the opportunity to greenlight a landmark $4.2 Environmental Bond Act, which, if approved, w…
05/12/2022
Newsweek: 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…
05/09/2022
Longmont Leader: A $1.5 million infusion of “seed money” for an early childhood community village in southeast Longmont is one of the propos…
05/09/2022
Daily Camera: Providing direct cash assistance to low-income families, investing in affordable housing projects and creating a mental health…
04/13/2022
Washington Post: When last summer’s devastating flood put the town of Waverly, Tenn., underwater, Richard Rye was standing on the roof of th…
03/17/2022
On a recent Saturday afternoon, diners at the Brooklyn restaurant Grand Army slurped oysters drizzled in mignonette and lemon juice against …
03/08/2022
Grist: Robert Moses, the public official responsible for transforming much of New York City’s landscape in the 20th century, built East Rive…
03/04/2022
Commissioner Thomas Foley of the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced that the first massive gate that will help protec…
02/13/2022
Spectrum News: Thousands of additional jobs would be created by adding $1 billion in borrowing to a proposed bond act meant to harden infras…
01/13/2022
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…
12/29/2021
Archinect: The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Mayor's Office of Climate Resiliency (MOCR) have release…
12/23/2021
Climate 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…
12/17/2021
NBC News: Kate Orff is the first landscape architect to ever win a MacArthur “genius grant”. She's a pioneer in the green infrastructure mov…
12/16/2021
NJ 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…
12/10/2021
NHK: People across the globe draw life from our oceans. They navigate over the surface. They're nourished by the creatures below. But m…
12/10/2021
NBC: June 23, 1988, marks the date that Dr. James Hansen, the former director of NASA’s Institute for Space Studies, gave a testimony i…
12/06/2021
NY 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…
12/02/2021
NY Times: The day after the storm swallowed her neighborhood, Nancy Ortiz woke before dawn to buy ice. It was 2012, and Hurricane Sandy…
11/19/2021
Bloomberg: Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves…
11/16/2021
NYC'S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIGHT RISING SEASNYC'S $107M LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT BUILDING BARRIERS TO FIG…
11/15/2021
The City: A higher waterfront and a lower highway may be on tap for Lower Manhattan.
The city has a new proposal for protecting the …
11/11/2021
Longmont Ledger: Initial findings from Boulder County’s wide-reaching American Rescue Plan, or ARPA, funding survey were revealed in a …
11/03/2021
Good Morning America: Watch here.…
10/27/2021
The City: Governors Island is awash in ideas for a new climate research hub on the New York Harbor haven — including from influential f…
10/25/2021
Dame Magazine: Water demands a place to flow. In New York City, a place deemed a “concrete jungle,” however, rivers, wetlands, oceans,…
10/14/2021
NY1: East River Park is still here.
Earlier this year, the city told residents to expect construction to start in the spr…
10/07/2021
GreenBiz: First, the bad news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that the world is already lock…
10/04/2021
Si Advance: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved into New York City, homes and cars were flooded under unprecedented rainfall that …
10/04/2021
AMNY: The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the Parks Department recently took amNewYork Metro on a tour of the East Rive…
09/28/2021
Cultured: Until recently, it might have been fair to say that much of Kate Orff’s work was about revealing natural systems hidden in ur…
09/20/2021
NY1: 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…
09/20/2021
New York Times: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept into New York this month, the storm’s ferocity shocked the city. Even with met…
09/18/2021
SI Advance: The rain fell viscously, bringing a torrent of water and debris to the bottom of Caswell Avenue in Graniteville. Cars were subme…
09/10/2021
Gothamist: When the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the region, it brought devastating flooding and caused the deaths of a…
09/04/2021
The City: The unprecedented rainfall that remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped Wednesday night made New York City’s climate vulnerabilities…
09/04/2021
NBC News: J. Lee Driskell was already on the road from her home in Brooksville, Florida, to Louisiana in her camper — the “Hurric…
09/03/2021
NY Daily News: Waking up to Thursday morning’s scenes of flooding and destruction was a shock to everyone, — including me, and I’ve spe…
09/01/2021
POLITICO: New York City’s next mayor will face a growing emergency in the fight against climate change.
The effects of global warming are…
08/09/2021
Il Post: Tra il 25 e il 31 ottobre del 2012 un grande uragano, chiamato Sandy, colpì New York: circa 90mila edifici e le stazioni …
07/13/2021
Archinect: In late October 2012, Superstorm Sandy crashed into the East Coast. Causing more than $70 billion in damage, the s…
06/21/2021
The Straits Times: Last June, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, people in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States could go on safe…
05/17/2021
Newsweek: President Joe Biden's announcement of a $2 trillion plan to rebuild infrastructure and reshape our economy was…
05/13/2021
NJ Digs: One of the largest infrastructure ventures in the history of New Jersey has finally kicked off after years of planning and further …
05/07/2021
NBC: More than eight years after Superstorm Sandy pushed the Hudson River over its banks and left Hoboken residents without power or wa…
05/07/2021
Hudson Reporter: The resilient infrastructure project, made possible by $230 million in Superstorm Sandy recovery funding from the U.S. Depa…
04/26/2021
Tapinto:
When large swathes of your cities were developed on land at or below sea level that had previously served as tidal wetland…
04/26/2021
As Boulder continues work on Ponderosa Mobile Home Park project, residents remain hopeful but uncertain about what the future holds. Daily C…
04/14/2021
Commonwealth Magazine (OPINION): GOV. BAKER’S RECENT signing of a sweeping climate bill into law codifies emissions reduction targ…
02/19/2021
My Modern Met: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is one of the most popular contemporary architects in the world. His firm, Bjarke Ingels Group…
02/03/2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic is a disruptive moment for our world, and it’s poised to spur transformative shifts in design, from how we experience …
01/27/2021
Architectual Digest: A fitness center, an orchestra stage, a forum for peaceful protest—Williamsburg’s Domino Park and waterfront spaces lik…
01/25/2021
State of Politics: The passage of an environmental bond act would inject billions of dollars into the economy and support 65,000 jobs in New…
12/22/2020
BioHabitats:Over the last 70 years, the world’s urban population has increased nearly six-fold, and much of that urbanization has occurred a…
12/22/2020
The Counter: Hurricane Sandy battered NYC 8 years ago. Since then, how has the city shored up against future superstorms? Oyster castle…
12/22/2020
Hudson Reporter: While most people have kept a close eye on Washington D. C. and the latest omnibus-spending bill due to much-needed coronav…
12/09/2020
NJ.COM: When Hurricane Sandy hit Atlantic City in 2012, floodwaters swept up to the second step of the buildings at Julissa Carmona’s apartm…
11/02/2020
NY DAILY NEWS: by Amy Chester
This week marks the eighth anniversary since Superstorm Sandy devastated our region. Perhaps understandably…
08/21/2020
The City: The path’s been cleared for a huge burial — and rebuilding — of Manhattan’s East River Park.
New York Supreme Court Judge …
08/20/2020
The Village Sun: Residents fighting to save East River Park from being razed and rebuilt for a coastal-resiliency project suffered a painful…
08/16/2020
Climate Insider: Arlene Phipps' string of bad luck started the night Hurricane Sandy crashed into New York's coast.
Fierce winds pel…
08/01/2020
Times Union:
THE ISSUE:
While governments and society are focused on other issues, the planet continues to warm dangerously.
…
07/15/2020
Places Journal: In 1839, if you wanted to take a boat from coastal Matagorda, Texas, to the inland town of Wharton, you would have had …
07/10/2020
City 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 …
06/01/2020
NYTimes: A billion-dollar program to protect cities from climate change is at risk of failing because of the pandemic.
Connecticut is pre…
05/06/2020
The Architects Newspaper: How do you make waterfront locations resilient to the problems caused by climate change? How can you support …
05/04/2020
New York Daily News: Last week, both Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo appointed task-forces and sector advisory councils&n…
04/02/2020
Albany Times Union Blog: Voters in New York will decide later this year if the state should borrow $3 billion to spend on various environmen…
04/01/2020
Politico: An agreement between lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a $3 billion bond act includes some broad categories for the use of the fu…
03/25/2020
Grist: Michael Berkowitz is a student of disaster, and a guru on how cities weather them. As the former executive director of the nonpr…
02/27/2020
Politico: With the Trump administration pulling funding for a comprehensive resiliency study in New Jersey and New York, local governments a…
02/25/2020
US News: Hoboken, one of the areas in New Jersey hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy, is making progress toward completing a larg…