The Weekly: Alabama Used Five Financing Levers to Scale Resilient Building Standards Across the State
Alabama’s approach to scaling the FORTIFIED standard has become a blueprint nationwide.
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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.
Building Codes Can’t Keep Up With Climate Risk. Here’s How States Can Take Back Control.
As long as building codes lag behind climate realities, private insurance markets will continue to dictate local safety standards by default. Resiliency Codes offer a clear, actionable strategy to change this dynamic.
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: "Wood Utility" Facilities Could Improve Wildfire Resilience
Treating wood as a public utility, rather than a waste product, could reduce fire risk, support insurer re-entry, and unlock economic value that currently goes up in smoke.
Should Wood Be a Public Utility?
Treating wood as a public utility, rather than a waste product, could reduce fire risk, support insurer re-entry, and unlock economic value that currently goes up in smoke.
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.
Resilience Districts: Unlocking Tax-Increment Finance for Climate Adaptation
Resilience districts give local governments a new financing mechanism to fund climate adaptation, but their success depends on applying a forward-looking, risk-informed approach rather than defaulting to traditional bond financing logic.
The Weekly: The Epicenter’s Three-Part Series on How Home Catalogs Can Drive Resilience
The Epicenter’s three-part home catalogs series from Alexis M. Pelosi and Robin Keegan describes how we arrived at the current moment and explores what it means for the future of housing after disasters and in communities facing disinvestment, outdated zoning, or housing supply constraints.
Beyond Disasters: Home Catalogs as a National Housing Solution
The same principles that accelerate disaster recovery can address housing supply constraints, urban disinvestment, and affordability challenges in any market.
The Evolution of Home Rebuilding Catalogs: Lessons from Katrina, Santa Rosa, and Lahaina
The lack of standard home rebuilding playbooks, combined with the uneven delivery of federal disaster recovery funding, has led to fragmented rebuilding efforts over the past few decades. However, disaster recovery has evolved to more systematic approaches using pre-approved home plan catalogs.