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Jul162021

Climate wreckage along Chesapeake fuels courtroom reckoning

By Maxine Joselow Photo: Maxine Joselow/E&E News

Jim Foster wonders if he should move away from this idyllic coastal community before the next storm. Foster, 63, has lived here on the shore…

Jul152021

Homeland Security Today

DHS S&T Leading the Way in Adapting to Climate Change and Building Community Resilience

According to the United States Global Change Research Program, more frequent and intense extreme weather, and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions,…

Jul152021

dmagazine

What Dallas Can Do in the Fight Against Climate Change

By Alex Macon Photo: Rachael Warriner

Kidus Girma is an organizer with Sunrise Movement Dallas, the local hub of a national youth-led movement fighting against climate change. In recent weeks, organizers…

Jul142021

WPR

Low-Income Communities Have Fewer Trees, And Climate Change Is Pointing Out That Disparity

By Elizabeth Dohms-Harter Photo: Corey Williams/AP Photo

Just by flying over certain cities, it’s easy to spot the wealthy ones. They’re the communities with lots of trees. That’s according to Ian Leahy,…

Jul142021

wwlp.com

Climate change restoration projects awarded in 26 communities

By Seth Rosenthal Photo: John Phelan

The Baker-Polito administration announced Wednesday that the Department of Fish and Game’s (DFG) Division of Ecological Restoration (DER) has awarded $4 million in grants through…

Jul132021

Energy.gov

DOE Awards $12 Million to Tribal Communities

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today $12 million in funding to 13 American Indian and Alaska Native communities across the nation for projects…

Jul122021

The San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego enhancing city’s fight against climate change after critical audit

By David Garrick Photo: K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego’s efforts to fight climate change will shift from a set of ambitious goals to a more comprehensive and detailed blueprint in response to…

Jun302021

Grist

In the Midwest, faith communities are ramping up the fight against climate change

By Jena Brooker Photo: Grist / Amelia Bates

Outside the hulking limestone facade of Gesu Catholic Church and School in Detroit, Michigan, a group of fifth and sixth graders sit in the grass…

May172021

Yale Climate Connections

California’s volunteer ‘Climate Action Corps’ helps fight climate change

By YCC Team

In the fight against climate change, California is tapping into an important renewable resource: people power. The state recently launched the California Climate Action Corps.…

Feb142021

The Guardian

New toxic plant in Chicago minority neighborhood sparks hunger strike

By Taylor Moore Photo: Oscar Sanchez

A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white,…

Apr82020

State of the Planet

COVID-19 Provides Lessons on Climate Adaptation for Cities

By Amy Turner Photo: Michael Walter on Unsplash

Some policies can simultaneously address public health threats, reduce emissions and provide for a city’s recovery. …

Sep252019

Mark Hertsgaard Assesses SF Global Climate Action Summit

By Alex Wise

This past September in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsgaard covered the summit…

Sep192019

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE

RELEASE: New Report Finds National Governments Can Unlock Nearly $24 Trillion by Investing in Zero-Carbon Cities

A new report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions, supported by 50 leading institutions, shows that national governments that invest in low-carbon cities can enhance…

Jul82019

EcoWatch

This Dutch City Has Transformed Its Bus Stops Into Bee Stops

By Michiel de Gooijer Photo: Brightvibes

In the Dutch city Utrecht 316 bus stops now have a green roof. They do not only look great, they also help capture fine dust,…

Jun192019

New York Times

With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?

By Christopher Flavelle Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the…

Jun182019

The Guardian

Eskilstuna: how a Swedish town became the world capital of recycling

By Ammar Kalia Photo: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

The city was dying. Then somebody had a great idea to save it – make it the greenest place on Earth

Jun52019

Standing Rock fights on: Tribal activism goes solar

Three years after the historic anti-pipeline protests in North Dakota, activists are bringing renewable energy to the oil-rich land.

May232019

Resilience

Americans Need More Bike Transit – And these Nonprofits are Bringing it

By Avery Phillips

Alternative transportation is becoming a topic of huge importance as climate scientists tell us the Earth will not be able to withstand current levels of…

May152019

Bloomberg

These Are the Cities Doing the Most to Combat Global Warming

By Jeremy Hodges

Cities, which are home to more than half the world’s population, are stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against climate change…

Apr182019

Wired

New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at Skyscrapers

By Adam Rogers Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

On Thursday, the New York City Council voted into law a sweeping set of rules to fight climate change, a metropolis-scaled version of a Green…

Apr22019

The Conversation

How clean is your city? Just ask the bees

By Kate E. Smith Photo: Kate Smith

There’s a good chance you live in a city — or will soon. According to estimates by the United Nations, two out of every three…

Mar252019

SmartcitiesDive

Oslo, Norway to install wireless electric chargers for taxi fleet

By Jason Plautz courtesy Pixabay

Oslo, Norway is poised to become the first city in the world to use wireless fast-charging infrastructure for its taxi fleet, in part of an…

Feb182019

Zero Energy Project

Highlighting Useful Technologies for Getting to Zero: The New Zero Energy Project Product Directory

by Bruce Sullivan

New technologies are making zero energy homes and buildings more affordable, healthier, and more comfortable than ever. The Zero Energy Project now helps you keep…

Feb132019

Newsday

Babylon Town completes LED replacement for streetlights

By Rachel O’Brien Photo: Newsday/Rachel O'Brien

The four-month switch-over to LED cost $3.2 million and is projected to save the town $1 million annually, officials said.

Feb52019

Newsday

Residential electricity use to drop over next 5 years, PSEG Long Island says

By Mark Harrington Photo: Chris Ware

Energy-saving LED lights and green-energy alternatives, along with slower-than-expected economic growth, are leading the home-use declines, utility official says.

Feb12019

Zero Energy Project

Every State has Home Energy Efficiency Assistance Programs. Find Yours.

By Sandra Wood

Throughout the US, homeowners are taking proactive, meaningful steps to moderate their home’s energy use and lower their carbon footprint. Since buildings alone are responsible…

Nov302018

Forbes

7 Tips For Your Community’s Resilience – What’s Your Climate Threat?

By Joan Michelson

A community in Pittsburgh was alarmed by the high rate of asthma and related illnesses in their children and cardiovascular diseases in their adults and…

Nov262018

The New York Times

Five Big Ways the United States Will Need to Adapt to Climate Change

By Brad Plumer Photo: Bryan Tarnowski for The New York Times

The federal government’s sweeping new National Climate Assessment is more than just a dire warning about current and future global warming effects across the United States. It’s…

Oct232018

U.S. News & World Report

Former Toronto Mayor David Miller Talks About City Responsibility Following U.N. Climate Report

By Jared Brey Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images

The North American leader of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group outlines what cities are doing well – and can do better – in the wake…

Oct152018

State of the Planet

Sustainability Progress Through Transformations in Public Transportation

By Alana Masciana

What’s the best way for cities to become more sustainable? For Thomas Abdallah of MTA New York City Transit, the answer is mass transit. Citing the finding that the…

May82018