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China Breaks Ground on First “Forest City”

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 07.07.2017

 

Read the full article at Inhabitat.    A pollution-fighting green city unlike any before is springing to life in China. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, the first “Forest City” is now under construction Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. The futuristic city will use renewable energy for self sufficiency and be blanketed in almost 1 million plants and 40,000 […]

 

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Preparing for the Future: Lessons From Hurricane Sandy

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 04.14.2017

 

Ground floor is not quite the term for it. At a new gallery, classroom and office building under construction in the West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the main floor is more than four feet above the ground. This is no mere design conceit. Elevated floors are an imperative in flood-prone areas like the site of the […]

 

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