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Greener Streets, Safer Streets: Less Flooding Through Better Transportation Infrastructure

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments mdot, MDOT engineers, pervious, rain, rainwater, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, hardscaping, impervious, rainwater detention, street grid, street grids, street trees, streets, traffic calming, urban heat island, vision zero, water infiltration, water treatment, weather, woonerf, rainwater retention, resilient infrastructure, resilient, riparian buffer, road engineering, safe streets, shade trees, storms, climate adaptation, climate change, climate, albedo, bioretention, bioswale, black locust, buffer, climate resilience, flooding, floodwaters, floodwater, detroit flooding, detroit street grid

In the aftermath of a catastrophic flooding event a few weeks ago, Detroiters cleaned out their basements of water-damaged and

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

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments NOAA, how to fix basement flooding, resilience, resiliency, resiliency and adaptation, climate adaptation, climate change, climate change models, climate models, american society of adaptation professionals, ASAP, basement flooding, climate, climate modeling, floods, 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 june 2021 storms, market solutions, insurance, rain tax, infrastructure hardening, green infrastructure, green new deal, green stormwater infrastructure, gary brown, stormwater management, stormwater retention, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater, sewage, sewer, sewers, gary brown is a cop, glwa, climate adaptation, climate change, floods, flood insurance, flood, dwsd, combined sewer, combined sewer overflow, detroit flooding, detroit water and sewerage department, drainage tax, duggan administration

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

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, hurricane harvey, hurricane laura, hurricane maria, hurricanes, resilience, resiliency, climate adaptation, climate change, florida, 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.

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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, beth gibbons, american society of adaptation professionals, 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