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…
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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…
02/24/2020
WPIX: 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…
02/19/2020
AMNY: Representatives from the Parks Department, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and the design firm AECOM addressed Manhat…
02/19/2020
ABC: Landscape architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creative ways …
02/10/2020
by Basil Seggos
Buffalo News: In his State of the State address, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed the first environmental bond act in N…
02/10/2020
City Limits: Opinion by Carlos Scissura, New York Building Congress
In December, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued disaster declarations for 1…
02/08/2020
NY Post: Opponents of the plan to bury East River Park in the name of flood protection are suing the city to stop the $1.4 billion proj…
02/07/2020
Curbed: A transformational plan to fill in and raise East River Park by eight feet is facing a legal battle that threatens to stall flo…
01/14/2020
Politico: Although they don't know exactly how Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration wants to spend $3 billion for environmental projects, lawm…
01/13/2020
Times Union: Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to be betting that climate change is on the minds of enough New Yorkers that they’ll approve a $…
01/10/2020
Adirondack Almanac: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 State of the State speech included two big pieces of good news for the Adirondack Park…
01/09/2020
Post Standard: Gov. Andrew Cuomo today proposed a $3 billion environmental bond act aimed at creating what he called the nation’s most …
12/30/2019
City Limits: To feed its 8.5 million residents, New York City relies on an interconnected food supply chain clustered around just six m…
12/19/2019
by Marie French
ALBANY — A group created to oversee a resilient design competition after Hurricane Sandy is pushing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and…
12/13/2019
The Hudson Reporter: A project that aims to protect Hoboken from flooding caused by storm surges like Hurricane Sandy may miss its fund…
11/15/2019
The Architect: The New York City Council voted to approve the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project yesterday…
11/15/2019
Greek City News: Athens’ Lycabettus Hill, an iconic landmark on the Athens landscape, and Omonia Square in the city centre are undergoi…
11/15/2019
Times Union: Every one of New York's 62 counties over the past decade have experienced a flooding disaster. Flooding has ravaged urban,…
11/15/2019
AMNY: Despite strong opposition by area residents, the City Council on Thursday greenlighted a $1.45 billion proposal to raise the elev…
11/14/2019
City Limits: Climate change is not a nebulous future threat. It landed on our shores violently and mercilessly seven years ago as Super…
11/14/2019
Curbed: A $1.45 billion effort to transform Manhattan’s east side with flood protections overwhelmingly passed the City Council Thursda…
11/14/2019
New York Post: There won’t be any cows floating away from downtown Manhattan if Mayor Bill de Blasio signs off on this just-passed plan.
…
11/13/2019
The City: A transformational plan to fortify the Lower East Side waterfront against rising seas is poised to sail through a key vote th…
11/13/2019
Hudson Reporter: Hudson County and the State of New Jersey awarded Hoboken more than $1.8 million in grant funding for open space…
11/13/2019
Daily News: by Amy Chester and Tom Wright
You only have to glance at the latest daily headlines or refresh your social media feed to…
11/13/2019
Gothamist: The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project—the $1.45 billion plan to protect downtown Manhattan's east side against globa…
11/12/2019
WCBS 880: A New York City Council subcommittee has approved a plan to build flood barriers along two and half miles of East River Park …