Clean Air Requires Local, State and Federal Solutions
By Brian Moench / On May 31st, 2017
Now, more than ever, we need to maintain and improve policies that "unmask" our cities from air pollution and halt climate change
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How To Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
By Taj James, Rosa Gonzalez / On May 24th, 2017
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence
Trumping the Transportation Progress Our Cities Need
By Linda Bailey / On May 23rd, 2017
President Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for the transportation networks that are key to the growth engines of today's economy: cities and their suburbs.
Climate justice leaders are pushing forward in the Trump era
By Laurie Mazur / On May 22nd, 2017
A round-table discussion with environmental justice leaders on the challenges (and opportunities) of the Trump era
Climate Denial Puts Infrastructure At Risk
By Cathleen Kelly / On May 17th, 2017
Rather than pay much more down the road, President Trump should act now to build infrastructure that can withstand the effects of climate change
Urban Resilience Project Celebrates 100 Published Pieces
By Kyler Geoffroy / On May 2nd, 2017
The Island Press Urban Resilience Project has officially reached our 100th published piece! Come celebrate with us by taking a walk down memory lane.
#ForewordFriday: Resilience in Jamaica Bay Edition
By Katharine Sucher / On March 31st, 2017
Each month, Island Press discounts one of its e-books wherever e-books are sold—and today is your last chance to get Prospects for Resilience: Insight from New York City's Jamaica Bay! Informed by insights of more than fifty scholars and practitioners, the book establishes a broad framework for understanding resilience practice in cities and sets out a process for grappling with the many meanings of resilience.
Diversity Is Not Enough. And It Can Be Counterproductive
By Jacqueline Patterson / On March 8th, 2017
If your organization/coalition/group views racial and ethnic diversity as an endpoint, and is only ready to add another color to your crayon box, please give deep consideration to your intent and process.
Where to live? Resiliency in spite of climate change
By Jaimie Hicks Masterson / On December 21st, 2016
In October, Jonah Engel Bromwich wrote an article for the New York Times entitled “Where should you live to escape the harshest effects of climate change?” The article hypothesizes about which cities will experience the least adverse hazard impacts from climate change.
We can’t win the climate battle without healthy forests
By Joe Landsberg, Richard Waring / On December 19th, 2016
Most people now accept that the world’s climate is changing rapidly as a result of human activities — mainly the direct emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat radiating from the earth, causing the temperature of our small blue planet to rise. This is leading to all sorts of political, economic and ecological problems.