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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The Weekly: Hurricane Isaias Is a Test of the Gulf Coast’s Bet on Hardened Homes
Florida and Alabama have spent hundreds of millions fortifying homes. Isaias is the first mainland hurricane to test that resilience since 2024.
The Weekly: Resilience Went Mainstream at Climate Week NYC. Our Team Shared Three Takeaways.
Two years ago, sessions on resilience were hard to find at Climate Week NYC. This year, they were everywhere.
The Weekly: El Niño Is a Stress Test for America’s Infrastructure. It Can Show Us Where to Invest Next.
There is a 75% chance that El Niño strength will exceed every event on record since 1950.
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 Weekly: After the Marshall Fire, Builders Played a Central Role in Shaping Resilient Rebuilds
Builders have the power to influence how resilient a home rebuild is.
The Weekly: LA Has the Leadership and Capital to Rebuild with Resilience. It's Missing the System to Connect Them.
Los Angeles isn't short on ideas or expertise. But, like many communities rebuilding after a disaster, it lacks the connections, systems, and capacity to bring them together at scale.
The Missing Piece in LA's Wildfire Recovery Is Coordination
Three lessons from the Rebuilding with Resilience Summit
The Weekly: When A Spark Can Bankrupt a Utility, The Grid Is Now a Wildfire Defense System.
Wildfire season is changing how utilities fortify against wildfires
The Weekly: Earnings Calls Are Full of “Resilience” Talk. But Physical Resilience Moves Stock Prices
S&P 500 companies mentioned "resilience" 600 times on earnings calls last quarter. The word is exploding, and it's losing meaning. New research shows only one kind of resilience moves stock prices.
The Weekly: Once Cities Implement a Stormwater Utility, They Don't Stop
Downpours are getting heavier across most of the U.S., and aging drainage systems are struggling to keep up. In response, a fast-growing municipal policy solution is scaling across the country.
The Weekly: The Tools to Finance Resilience Already Exist. To Unlock Scale, We Need Coordination.
We need to move beyond asking simply, How do we fund this project? and start asking, What financial risk does this community face, what outcomes could change that trajectory, and how should we invest accordingly?
The Weekly: When Governments Prove Resilience Pays Off, Insurers, Investors, and Developers Start Funding It
When benefits tied to investing in resilience can be measured and demonstrated, major new sources of capital become available to help finance resilience.