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As part of the Resilient Coastal Communities Project, she's been working with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and Columbia Climate School's Center for Sustainable Urban Development on a project to address flood risk in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, and she's written about her experience on Medium.
"All areas within New Zealand have a high proportion of coastline to land area, and for my home in the subtropical Far North'a long, narrow peninsula' this is especially true,'" she writes.
"Nature-based solutions, rather than gray infrastructure, are gaining increasing recognition for their potential to provide more sustainable and more affordable long-term adaptation for floods and climate change, while delivering better water quality outcomes."
One of those nature-based solutions she's been impressed with: living reefs.
She writes that she's been able to visit many M'ori communities along New Zealand's coast, "where many indigenous M'ori communities are on the front line of the climate crisis," and see first-hand how they've...Selected Grant News Headlines
New data from Statistics Canada signals a troubling trend in Canada's food manufacturing sector.From 2021 to 2023, just 67.7 per cent of food processing businesses introduced at least one innovation,...more
Department of Energy (DOE), the budget reflects a targeted reorientation of funding toward technologies that align with the administration's energy, industrial and national security priorities.The...more
"World Calls on China to Lead": Urgent Climate Demands Escalate Ahead of Pivotal Global Sustainability Transition Conference.China is positioned to lead global climate action with its dominance in...more
Circular construction is about rethinking how we build, renovate, and repurpose urban spaces.By extending the life of building materials from existing structures the hope is to reduce waste generated...more
Laura Magana, PhD, is president and CEO of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.Her talk will focus on how public health systems can proactively shape policies, environments and...more
Backed by catalytic capital, Co-Axis is set to transform climate and health solutions where theya€™re needed most."By connecting values-driven capital with curated impact opportunities, we...more
The Social Emotional Active Learning (SEAL) program is designed to build empathy, emotional awareness and key social skills through active learning.The SEAL program uses games, props and situational...more
Boulder Climate Ventures is a graduate-level program that connects students primarily from business, engineering and science backgrounds to a growing network of experts, researchers and entrepreneurs...more
The UN's Science, Technology and Innovation Forum marks 10 years of bridging frontier knowledge and policy for sustainable development.World leaders will join pioneering scientists, innovators,...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation 
Rich countries 'owe it to the world' to get themselves down to net zero emissions: Bill Gates.He called for the world to be more bold with innovation investments that seek to combat climate...more
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When it Comes to Social Enterprises, Failure is the Best Platform for Innovation
In the world of social enterprises, failure is a cringe-worthy moment nobody wants to talk about. But, social entrepreneurs can benefit from their failures.