Author: Pete Plastrik

Putting Real Urban Opportunity–Carbon-Free and Equitable–into Opportunity Zones

In a report featured in GreenBiz–“Opportunity zones could provide major boost for clean energy, sustainable development”–INC partners Julia Parzen & Graham Richard explain how the federal Opportunity Zone program can be leveraged to produce gains for communities, investors, and the planet. Julia and Graham chart various innovative ways…
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New INC Report: Playbook 1.0: How Cities Are Paying for Climate Resilience

This report by Innovation Network for Communities and Climate Resilience Consulting identifies eight distinct strategies cities are using to pay for large-scale climate-resilience projects, mostly to address sea level rise and flooding. These strategies amount to an initial approach—Playbook 1.0—for deciding who will pay what and…
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New INC Report: Can It Happen Here? Improving the Prospect of Managed Retreat by US Cities

Social Innovation

This research report provides city government and civic leaders with new reasons to consider the use of managed retreat as a way to strengthen their cities’ climate resilience. As mounting destruction by rising seas, hurricanes, and wildfires drives the dangers of climate change deeper into public…
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“Carbon Free Boston” — How One US City Can Reduce GHG Emissions and Improve Quality of Life

This new report by the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, staffed by INC’s John Cleveland, analyzes, quantifies, and prioritizes strategies and actions for reducing GHG emissions and explicitly addresses the potential impacts of different policies on social equity. From the report introduction: “The report’s analysis makes clear the great…
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