#ForewordFriday: Urban Resilience Project Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On July 29th, 2016
Bummed our Free Summe Read e-book promotion is over? Fear not! You can still get great content from Island Press. For those last minute summer vacations, bring along our collection of 2015 Urban Resilience Project content in Resilience Matters: Forging a Greener, Fairer Future for All. You'll find a wide-ranging series of articles, blogs, and op-eds from a diverse group of thinkers including activists, academics, architects, and more.

A Community Approach to Climate Resilience

By Rebecca Wodder / On July 28th, 2016
How to accumulate and leverage social capital to achieve healthy freshwater ecosystems, green infrastructure improvements, and triple-bottom-line benefits.

The Bipartisan Climate Solution: A Tax Swap

By Emil H. Frankel, Keith Kozloff / On July 21st, 2016
You wouldn’t know it from today’s polarized politics, but protecting the environment used to be a bipartisan effort.  There were, of course, the path-breaking conservation achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican. And, in the 1970s through the 1990s major federal environmental legislation – the National Environmental Policy Act, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, the Clean Air Act  and Clean Water Act  – occurred under Republican administrations in cooperation with Democratic Congressional leadership. 

Heat or Eat? NYC Tackles Energy Costs and Climate Change

By Jennifer Miller, PhD / On July 14th, 2016
Heat or eat: that’s the stark choice faced by many low-income families during cold New York winters, according to Scott Oliver of PathStone, a non-profit group in upstate New York. But that could change. In January, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo launched a new $5 billion Clean Energy Fund that will sharply reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions while also lowering energy costs for low-income families.

At the Nexus of Gentrification and Environmentalism

By Pamela Boyce Simms / On July 12th, 2016
Optimism is alive in a new generation of environmentally aware and astute African American young people who “get it.” Over the past four years 40,000 pounds of trash has been removed from Washington DC’s Anacostia River by young, local African American residents.

4 Ways to Address Climate Change Now

By Keith Kozloff / On July 7th, 2016
There are steps Washington could take, without waiting for a "grand bargain," that could make a big difference for our states and communities. Even in this famously gridlocked Congress, there are signs of progress on climate change. There's a new, aisle-crossing "Climate Solutions Caucus," and there are rumors of Republican-sponsored climate bills to be introduced next year.

In Uncertain Times, Design for Community

By Alec Appelbaum / On June 16th, 2016
When I think about climate change, I like to look at a photo of my daughter and her two dear friends—not just because of their sweet smiles, but because the photo offers an important clue to how we can design cities to thrive in uncertain times.

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