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Trial Date Set for Children’s Climate Suit Against U.S. Government
Read the entire article on Inside Climate News. A federal judge has set a trial date for the landmark lawsuit brought by 21 children and young adults over the U.S. government’s alleged failure to rein in fossil fuel development and address climate change. The trial will start on Feb. 5, 2018, in federal district court in […]
Talking to Children About Climate Change
Read the entire article at NOAA. The scientific evidence is in. No matter what local weather we’re experiencing on a day-to-day basis, our planet is warming up, with far-reaching implications for us all. The conversation in scientific circles now is how Earth will respond, how well the living things on Earth will be able to […]
Greening Your Summer Vacation
Read the entire article at the New York Times. The United Nations has proclaimed 2017 the International Year of Sustainable Tourism with a goal of promoting positive change in travel with regard to social inclusion, environmental protection and economic equality. But what does that mean for the everyday traveler planning a summer vacation? Homework. While the […]
Climate Change as a Design Problem
Read the entire article at The New York Times. Many discussions of climate change begin at the water’s edge, in cities and towns where the rising ocean is an existential threat, or will be soon. But when he chose to embark on a series on the topic, Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times’s architecture critic, […]
A Wall Street Veteran’s Views on Climate Risk Management
Read the entire article at The Hill. I’m a Wall Street risk manager. As an employee, a partner and, for four years, the risk manager at Goldman Sachs, I served many chairmen, including Bob Rubin, Hank Paulson and Lloyd Blankfein, who leads the firm today. Every one of them has always understood that managing risk […]
San Francisco Design Teams Compete for Best Solutions to Sea Level Rise
Read the entire article at The San Francisco Chronicle. An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks off this week. The competition, dubbed “Resilient by Design,” will select 10 interdisciplinary teams to tackle 10 sites around the bay, with at least one […]
The Long and Winding Road to Sustainable Tourism
Read the entire article on GreenBiz. Earlier this year, Hilton trumpeted the arrival of its latest hotel brand, one comprised of unique properties with especially close ties to the communities in which they are located — the foundation for a sustainable relationship. It’s notable that the first property in the so-called Tapestry Collection, […]
Mainland Miami Ponders Returning Neighborhoods to Nature to Survive Rising Seas
Read the entire article at The Miami Herald. On mainland Miami, miles away from the pumps that keep Biscayne Bay from slowly swallowing South Beach, the neighborhood around Ray Chasser’s riverfront house seems like it’s drowning one high tide at a time. When the moon is full and the bay bloated, a salty soup […]
Why Climate Change is Personal for Interior Designers
Read the entire article on MultiBriefs. As an interior designer, I have always believed what we put into our building influences our well-being. By choosing finishes, furniture and lighting that are sustainable, we are increasing our chances of having a better quality of life inside our buildings. Keeping in mind that air and water quality […]
10 Times Cheaper to Take Electric Robo-Taxis than to Own a Car
Read the entire article at Fast Company. A new report predicts that we’re on the edge of an incredibly rapid transition to an entirely new transportation system – where it will be so much cheaper and easier to not own a car, you’ll get rid of it as soon as you can. Self-driving cars, […]
