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Asbestos Safety Resource

We recently created a guide on why asbestos abatement should be left to professionals and were wondering if you’d be interested in including it as a resource to help people understand why it’s dangerous to remove asbestos on their own. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think! https://www.asbestos.com/abatement-guide/ Spread […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on May 2, 2018

Using software to measure the Urban Footprint

Using software to measure the Urban Footprint Peter Calthorpe and his partner Joe DiStefano have a venture-capital funded startup designed to provide municipalities, non-governmental organizations, developers, and design and planning firms with a powerful cloud-based software tool for planning walkable, transit-served communities. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on April 27, 2018

Ready to be introduced to the world

Hi All: Aleks and Hadi have done a fantastic job on the website. We are ready to be introduced to the world, well at least the world of southern Ontario. For that we need everyone to act as recruiters. The more members we have the further we can push the conversation in Ontario on resilience […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on April 2, 2018

Green economy and related concepts: An overview

Journal of Cleaner Production Green economy and related concepts: An overview Eleonore Loiseaua, Laura Saikkub, Riina Antikainen, Nils Drostec, Bernd Hansjürgens, Kati Pitkänen, Pekka Leskinen, Peter Kuikmand, Marianne Thomsene Abstract For the last ten years, the notion of a green economy has become increasingly attractive to policy makers. However, green economy covers a lot of […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 24, 2018

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