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Stopping floods with nature’s help
Biomimicry offers a solution to use flood water in an industrial park.
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How New York City plans to survive the next storm
The Building Resiliency Task Force presented a report to New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg on ways the city should adapt to better handle the next superstorm.
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Another reason not to build glass towers: They are not resilient
Superstorm Sandy and the Alberta floods demonstrate the need to design buildings that keep the heat in or out when the power fails.
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How the language of green building has changed; now it's just weather-proofing.
We once wrote about sustainable design. Then the hot topic was resilient design. Now, it's come to this.
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The secret to resiliency: neighbors
At today's TEDxNYIT talks, the most important factor for resiliency is people.
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Venice, Italy tests $7 billion flood barriers
The first test of Venice, Italy's ambitious flood-protection project, known as The Moses Project, was successful on Saturday.
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Far Rockaway resilient design winner announced
White Arkitekter takes home the prize for their post-Sandy vision of one of New York's most flood vulnerable areas.
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How to build a permaculture suburb
From food forests to passive solar homes to water-filtering swales, one California communityshows us an alternative vision for the burbs.
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Modular natural dam design protects communities from rising sea levels (Video)
Integrating architecture and ecology, this proposal for a modular natural dam design could help defend coastal communities from climate change-induced natural disasters.
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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.
Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?
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Wild City Mapping: Interactive online sharing of wild urban spaces (Video)
This Montreal collective is creating an online, crowd-sourced map that will document the city's wild spaces.
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New York’s proactive plan to face climate change
Legislators and The Nature Conservancy works on plan to make New York more resilient and protected from climate change impacts, such as extreme weather and rising seas levels.
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Self-sufficient couple builds their own floating off-grid island (Video)
Dubbed "Freedom Cove," this remarkable home is a decades-long labor of love built in one of inlets in British Columbia.
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What is the future of home?
Micro-apartments, reinventing suburbs, mega-cities--what will our homes look like in the next 100 years?
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This tree is a co-working space, and a landlord (Video)
This conceptual project re-imagines a tree as an open-plan office, but also as a landlord of sorts, that benefits from your work done while within the tree's space.
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Our society is built around air conditioning now, but we can still try to use...
Our summers are getting hotter everywhere and AC is no longer a luxury.
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Stopping floods with nature’s help
Biomimicry offers a solution to use flood water in an industrial park.
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Our society is built around air conditioning now, but we can still try to use...
Our summers are getting hotter everywhere and AC is no longer a luxury.
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Has Air Conditioning become "The necessary luxury"? A roundup of our coverage...
The climate is changing, and perhaps our approach to AC should as well.
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Stopping floods with nature’s help
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