climate adaptation Archives - The Handbuilt City

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

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

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

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.

Adaptation & Resilience Environment

Shrink a Yard, Grow a Beach: Housing on Feeder Bluffs

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Vishva Nalamalapu 0 Comments juan de fuca, land erosion, soil erosion, strait of juan de fuca, victoria, washington, washington state, port angeles, puget sound, sequim, climate adaptation, beach, beaches, bluff armoring, bluffs, british columbia, erosion, elwha bluffs, ediz hook, feeder bluffs, dungeness spit, dungeness, climate resilience, coastal armoring, coastal erosion, cordilleran glacial retreat, cordilleran ice sheet

One day, a resident of Port Angeles, Washington could swing in a hammock in his backyard and look out over

Adaptation & Resilience Climate

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

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

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.

Climate

Climate Leadership Conference, Day 1: Lessons Learned and Issues Highlighted

March 5, 2020March 6, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments wsp, matt naud, missy stults, protest, climate adaptation, climate change, american society of adaptation professionals, beth gibbons, environmental justice, ESG

Day 1 of the Climate Leadership Conference provides some solid lessons in adaptation and reslience while also revealing some important schisms in the sustainability movement.

Adaptation & Resilience Events