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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, […]
How Rising Seas and Coastal Storms Drowned the U.S. Flood Insurance Program
Read the entire article at YaleEnvironment360. Sea level rise and more severe storms are overwhelming U.S. coastal communities, causing billions of dollars in damage and essentially bankrupting the federal flood insurance program. Yet rebuilding continues, despite warnings that far more properties will soon be underwater. The federal insurance program has subsidized thousands […]
200 Cities Using New Tool to Improve Disaster-related Resilience
Read the entire article at CityScope. In a bid to boost resilience in the face of disaster, some 200 cities say they will start using a new tool to develop strategies for curbing disaster losses from climate change and other risks. The tool was released last week at the Global Platform for Risk Reduction summit held in […]
Millennials Way More Serious About Climate Change
Read the full article at Future of Sharing. Millennials, worried about climate change, are looking to new ideas and companies for solutions. They’re rejecting the resource-trampling, gas-guzzling ways of the 20th century and seeking cleaner ways to live. There’s plenty of research to indicate that millennials prefer access over ownership – three out […]
Biomimicry: Unlocking Nature’s Design Wonders
Read the entire article at World Environment Day. In 2015, engineering student Jorge Zapote and his team from the University of Calgary decided to take on a problem that affects millions of poor, rural families around the world – and one whose solution could be key to remedying climate change. They wanted to find a […]
