Climate Archives - The Handbuilt City

Throw out your flood-damaged possessions. And your climate models.

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american society of adaptation professionals, ASAP, basement flooding, climate, climate adaptation, climate change, climate change models, climate modeling, climate models, flood, floods, how to fix basement flooding, NOAA, resilience, resiliency, resiliency and adaptation

Throw the climate modeling out the window with your flood-damaged worldly possessions. It’s time to figure out how to adapt.

Climate Ecology

If Not Now, When? Detroit Flooding Raises Questions.

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate adaptation, climate change, combined sewer, combined sewer overflow, detroit flooding, detroit water and sewerage department, drainage tax, duggan administration, dwsd, flood, flood insurance, floods, gary brown, gary brown is a cop, glwa, green infrastructure, green new deal, green stormwater infrastructure, infrastructure hardening, insurance, june 2021 storms, market solutions, rain tax, sewage, sewer, sewers, stormwater, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater management, stormwater retention

Widespread flooding across Metro Detroit has left basements filled with water, backed up sewage, and has left homeowners with questions about what the state and city have been doing, if not preparing our infrastructure for climate change.

Climate Energy

Bye, Coal-icia! Consumers Energy Advances Decarbonization Goals

June 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments campbell, clean coal, CMS, coal, coal power, coal power plant, coal retirement, Consumers Energy, decarbonization, demand response, DTE Energy, economic dispatch, essexville, fossil fuels, IRP, jackson, jackson michigan, karn, ludington, ludington pumped storage, merit order, mid-merit, noneconomic dispatch, retirement of fossil fuels, the war on coal, utility planning, west michigan

Jackson, Michigan-based Consumers Energy (NYSE: CMS) made a groundbreaking announcement in a press conference this morning that it is ditching

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Infrastructure

Farewell, Arecibo: The Need For Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adaptation, arecibo, arecibo observatory, arecibo radio telescope, astrophysics, carl sagan, climate change, dam collapse, edenville dam, extreme weather, flooding, goldeneye, henry flagler, hurricanes, jodie foster, overseas railroad, pierce brosnan, puerto rico, radio astronomy, radio telescope, resilience, sanford dam, sean bean, st. francis dam, tacoma narrows bridge, teton dam, tom skerritt, william fichtner

The collapse of the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico highlights the gradual attrition of American leadership in science, and the failure of an entire generation of political leadership– in both parties- to address the increasingly grave threats of climate change.

Adaptation & Resilience Climate

Climate Change Is Here, And Boy Is It Ever Expensive!

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments california, california wildfires, climate adaptation, climate change, climate resilience, florida, hurricane, hurricane harvey, hurricane laura, hurricane maria, hurricanes, resilience, resiliency

If we fail to push for market transformation oriented toward climate adaptation solutions, the market will do it on its own. Like, in a really bad way. This has the unintended consequence, however, of incentivizing better decisions about development and planning.

Adaptation & Resilience Climate Environment

Land Hurricanes, Resilient Design, And Other Stuff To Think About

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate resilience, construction, derecho, extreme weather, grinnell, ICF, iowa, midwest, panelized construction, residential construction, resilience, storms, weather, wind, wind resistance

Extreme weather, like the recent derecho storm that ripped through Iowa, is exposing the fragility of the built environment. Fortunately, in thinking about how to protect ourselves, we have the ability to combine human technological ingenuity with the systems nature already built.

Entrepreneurship Sustainability Climate

WOCCS Resiliency Summit: Women of Color in Sustainability

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aspiration, BIPOC, careaux, corporate social responsibility, CSR, diversity, diversity equity and inclusion, ecowomen, enter solar, environmental justice, environmentalism, futerra, health, kinetic communities consulting, measured light, POCACITO, sustainability, Sustainability in business, united nations association, wellness, WOCCS

Nat attended a few amazing sessions at the Collective Resiliency Virtual Summit, organized by the Women of Color Collective in Sustainability, a co-creation of POCACITO fellow Jordana Vasquez.

Business & Economics Energy Efficiency Climate

Epilogue from the Climate Leadership Conference: We Cannot Stop Asking The Tough Questions

March 11, 2020March 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments apiculture, capitalism, climate crisis, distributed generation, DTE, ecological restoration, energy poverty, native landscaping, photovoltaics, solar power

The Climate Leadership Conference did a great job of bringing powerful stakeholders together. What it didn’t do such a great job of was asking tough questions of those stakeholders. But there is always opportunity to continue the dialogue.

Finance Energy Efficiency Finance Climate

Climate Leadership Conference: Practical Energy Finance Solutions

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments alex kregie, carbon footprint, climate change, decarbonization, decarbonization of finance, energy finance, energy financing, EUI, green bank, green building, hers

One session at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference in Detroit dealt with financing strategies for energy and sustainability improvements. PRACTICAL

Policy Climate Transit infrastructure

Climate Leadership Conference: Decarbonizing Transportation, One Electric SUV At A Time?

March 10, 2020March 11, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, climate leadership conference, connected vehicles, decarbonization, electric vehicles, electrical generation, Ford, GM, infrastructure, market transformation, mobility, single-occupant vehicles, transit, transit infrastructure

One recurring theme at last week’s Climate Leadership Conference was the topic of decarbonizing the transportation sector. Transportation accounts for

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