Resilience 2:1 Conversation

Look what your backyard can do in terms of carbon sequestration

By Kendra Pierre-Louis March 6, 2018 As the verdant hills of Wakanda are secretly enriched with the fictional metal vibranium in “Black Panther,” your average backyard also has hidden superpowers: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/climate/yard-garden-global-warming.html Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 11, 2018

Sustainability and Resilience in the Urban Environment

Theis, T. L., M. Zellner, AND H. CABEZAS. Sustainability and Resilience in the Urban Environment. Presented at U.S.-Japan Workshop on Life-Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Infrastructure Materials, Hokkaido Univ, Sapporo, JAPAN, October 21 – 22, 2009. Urban systems are formed by a diversity of actors and activities, and consist of complex interactions involving financial, information, energy, […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 8, 2018

Analyzing resilience of urban networks: a preliminary step towards more flood resilient cities

In Europe, river floods have been increasing in frequency and severity. These circumstances require the management of flood risk by integrating new concepts like urban resilience. Nevertheless, urban resilience seems to have no accurate meanings. That is why researchers are primarily concerned with defining resilience. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 5, 2018

Resilient TORONTO

Resilient TORONTO As a member of the 100 Resilient Cities Network (100RC), a global community of cities working together to build urban resilience, the City is working to improve our resilience to the physical, social, and economic challenges of the 21st century. In Toronto, these challenges include climate change and extreme weather, and a variety […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 2, 2018

Join 59,675,360 Academics

ACADEMIA.EDU Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people across the world for free. A study published in PLOS ONE found that papers uploaded to Academia receive a 69% boost in citations over 5 years. Link to the website => Spread the word

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on February 12, 2018

This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change.

The results are surprising. A chat with Paul Hawken about his ambitious effort to “map, measure, and model” global warming solutions. By David Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com Updated Feb 12, 2018, 10:04am EST Spread the word

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on February 12, 2018

Nijmegen, Nederlands, European Green Capital 2018

Leader of a green movement Nijmegen has been awarded the title of European Green Capital 2018. For a whole year, we will be the Green Capital of Europe. What a great compliment! We are the first Dutch city to hold this title, with Copenhagen, Bristol, Ljubljana, Essen and several others before us. We have earned […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on February 7, 2018

Urban forests add to cities health and wealth

Planting more urban forests is a simple way not only to improve the health of a city’s people, but to make them wealthier too. LONDON, 22 January, 2018 – Climate scientists who calculated the value of urban forests to the world’s great cities have now worked out how town planners can almost double their money. […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on February 5, 2018