I can’t say it any better than Enrico Moretti in his New York Times op-ed on the severe housing and environmental crisis raging in the Bay Area, brought to painful light by the recent wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties. As Moretti, an economist at UC…
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The First American Climate Refugees? A century-old tribal community of about 60 people will be relocated using federal funds—a first for the United States. In the past 60 years, more than 90 percent of the island’s original land mass has washed away, eroded by channels cut…
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An interesting angle in the New York Times on the nexus between the housing shortage in California and the impact of the recent Wine Country fires, which has left many who lost their homes with few options for temporary shelter owing to a lack of available…
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October 19, 2017 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Innovation Network for Communities, Managed Retreat, Sea Level Rise, Urban Climate Innovation
We’re starting a new project, with support of the Summit Foundation–to look more closely at the challenge of “managed retreat” by cities vulnerable to sea level rise and other climate impacts. Your thoughts and examples welcome. There is not the slightest doubt that beachfront development…
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INC WORK IN PROGRESS The other day we started to look at materials from 14 cities in North America, Europe, and Australia that have been figuring out how to link/integrate their plans and actions for reducing GHG emissions in the city with the same for increasing…
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September 13, 2017 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Innovation Network for Communities, Reports, Urban Climate Innovation
Cities in the U.S. are demonstrating that it is possible to reduce GHG emissions substantially while also growing their economies and populations.
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