After climate-driven devastation hits a community–storm & sea surges, river flooding, earthquakes, wildfires–a lot gets said about where development should never have been allowed to occur because the risks were too great–and a lot gets decided about rebuilding as much as possible to make things just…
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March 15, 2018 | Adaptive Futures, Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Consumption Reduction, Green Branding, Renewable Energy, Urban Climate Innovation, Urban Transformation
The creative destruction of the fossil-fuel energy sector that is underway offers cities unique economic opportunities, as well as the pain of a massive transition. Few cities have done more than Vancouver to convert the opportunities into short-term economic activity and long-term positioning in the emerging…
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October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Cities, Compact Development, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban TransformationSustainable development, impact real estate, smart growth, equitable development. Whatever you want to call it, I’d like to suggest it really starts with housing, which is currently in a crisis mode. Having moved back to Boulder in 2016 after five years in San Francisco, I can…
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October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Innovation Network for Communities, Renewable Energy, System Scale, Urban Climate Innovation, Urban Operating System
Which geographic entity in the Western Hemisphere has 22 million workers, a $4.3 trillion Gross Domestic Product, headquarters for about a third of the Fortune 500 companies, and is steadily reducing its GHG emissions and investing in its resilience to climate changes—all while increasing economic activity…
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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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