“The greatest city in the world.” How often do we hear New York described this way? A lot. I grew up in the Connecticut suburbs in the 1960s and 70s and count myself among the Big Apple’s biggest fans, but having moved west a decade ago,…
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November 15, 2017 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Finance, Innovation Network for Communities
Background and Goals With the acceleration of city efforts to plan and implement adaptation strategies, there is a growing need to develop and expand capacities to finance adaptation—through a variety of public, private, and nonprofit resources. A variety of innovations are underway, but they typically focus…
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November 13, 2017 | Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Renewable Energy, Reports, Urban Climate Innovation
We’re pleased to usher this guide, “Pathways to 100,” into the urban space where more and more cities are pursuing the goal of 100% renewable energy. It is designed by our Meister Consultants Group colleagues to help cities plan for a transition towards 100% renewable electricity supply.…
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“Our carbon language is very confusing. We hear, ‘I’m negative carbon,’ but that’s a positive. We’ve demonized carbon. Poor little carbon. It was innocent, but now it’s a demon… We also hear ‘net zero.’ You can release so much carbon and do so much renewable power…
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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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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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