The Weekly: Disasters Open A Window To Rebuild with Resilience. Policymakers Can Use It To Fix The System.
To address the housing crisis in the U.S., we need a three-part strategy for centering resilience.
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To Solve America’s Housing Crisis, We Need to Center Resilience
If we don’t build it right and build it to last, new housing supply won’t solve today’s housing crisis.
The Second Best Time to Invest in Resilience Is Right After a Disaster Hits
For most of the country, in most years, the post-disaster window is not the second-best time to invest in resilience. It is the only time anyone does.
The Weekly: Cities Are Cutting Billions in Sewer Compliance Costs by Letting Nature Do the Work
By adopting green infrastructure in place of some gray infrastructure, Kansas City reduced the total costs of managing its combined sewer system through 2040 by over $2 billion.
How to Sell Flood Infrastructure: Make It a Park
Cities spent decades building pipes and pumps to move water out fast. Hoboken tried absorbing it instead—and cut flooding by 88%.
AI Is Closing the Data Gaps That Have Limited Disaster Prediction for Decades
From wildfire prevention to flash flood forecasting, better data is enabling earlier, more targeted decisions about risk
Three Examples of How Incremental Change Led to Resilience
Early proof points are what eventually unlock scale, and they almost never look like proof when they begin. We need the compounding of resilience over time, and we need to recognize when the next disaster creates a narrow window for rapid investments in resilience—all at once.
Funding Climate Resilience is a Coordination Problem, Not a Capital Problem
Climate resilience is often framed as a problem of insufficient funding. In reality, it is a problem of how funding is structured and deployed.
The Weekly: Building Codes Can't Keep Up. Here's How States Can Take Back Control.
As climate-driven hazards accelerate, a dangerous structural misalignment has emerged: What building codes deem legally permissible to construct is increasingly at odds with what catastrophic risk models deem financially viable to insure.
The Weekly: How Maryland is Spending Its Conservation Dollars in Pennsylvania
Maryland is pioneering a cross-state conservation finance model to fund pollution reduction outside its borders while still meeting environmental obligations.
The Weekly: Resiliency Spotlight on the Non-Combustible Building System Fortifying 80 LA Homes
RSG 3-D's non-combustible panel system offers a financially competitive alternative to conventional construction that delivers wildfire, earthquake, and hurricane resilience.
The Federal Climate Retreat and Rise of a New Adaptation Ecosystem
The federal government's retreat from climate adaptation has created a gap in data, funding, and coordination, but a new decentralized ecosystem of nonprofits, state governments, and coalitions is stepping up to fill the void and may prove more resilient to political disruption in the long run.
Rhode Island Offers a Blueprint for Financing Coastal Climate Resilience
Over the last 15 years, Rhode Island has seen cataclysmic inland flooding, tornadoes, and rapidly rising sea levels wearing away at its coast. But the state plans to be a safer, more stable place to live in 50 years.