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.

Riots and Resilience in Baltimore and Beyond

By Denise Fairchild / On June 14th, 2016
The city exploded in flames. Lives were lost. Billions of dollars’ worth of property was destroyed. Businesses were shuttered forever.

Climate change is making us sick

By Praveen Buddiga, Katrina Peters / On May 3rd, 2016
Climate change is hurting our health — right here and right now. As practicing physicians, we see the impacts on our patients.

Working for a Greener, Fairer Tomorrow

By Kyler Geoffroy / On April 11th, 2016
It’s so easy to fall into the mindset that your job is the most important work in the whole world. Employed as a journalist? You are dedicating your career to uncovering the truth and preserving the freedom of the press! Work at a bank? You handle the money of the masses and are an integral part of how our economy functions. Manage a factory that makes those cardboard pizza boxes?

Building Climate Resilience at the Water's Edge

By Rebecca Wodder / On March 30th, 2016
We live in challenging times. The shocks and stresses of global warming affect every community in one form or another. Rising seas and storm surges swamp coastal communities. Floods and droughts of biblical proportions are visited on city dwellers and farmers alike. Forest fires and landslides follow in the wake of dying trees and barren hillsides. Unfamiliar viruses travel northward with pests whose ranges expand with warmer temperatures

Hold the Keystone bubbly: Our fossil fuel addiction remains

By Alec Appelbaum / On November 30th, 2015
Did you hear that Keystone XL—the long-planned pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast—got canceled? That President Obama nixed it because it would contribute to climate change? Did you, as a reader of sites like this, exhale?
Photo Credit: Rockaway Youth on Banner by Flickr.com user Light Brigading

The Legal Consequences of Ignoring Climate Risk

By Laurie Mazur / On November 12th, 2015
Last month, in a case that sent shivers through corporate America, a former peanut-company executive was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak. The executive, Stewart Parnell, knowingly shipped contaminated peanut butter to stores across the country. Nine people died and hundreds more were sickened.

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