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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... Read the Entire ArticleSelected Grant News Headlines
"The technologies serving Controlled Environment Agriculture have advanced at an exhilarating pace over the past decade," Rob Eddy, resource efficiency Horticulturist at the Resource Innovation...more
When you think of sustainability, you probably think of things like meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
But there's...more
Conduent, a global technology-led business solutions and services company, has announced an innovation initiative with Microsoft that will use Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to bring the power of...more
India and Sweden are teaming up to help the world's steel, cement, and construction industries cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by 50% by 2030, the Guardian reports.
According to a press...more
"I felt like I was in a Lion King scene, seeing the views of the African desert."
That's how Rafaella Moreira Lopes describes her experience during spring break in Namibia, where she studied the...more
How do cities fare in the face of climate change? According to a study published in the journal BMC Public Health, they can either be "resilient" or "resilient"with "resilient" cities becoming more...more
A Canadian university is preparing to open what it says will be the country's first "clean plant farm"a greenhouse-free operation where grapevines will be grown to make wine, the BBC...more
The New York Climate Exchange is putting its money where its mouth is.
The nonprofit is holding its first-ever AI Innovation Challenge, and it's looking for students to come up with solutions to...more
Three young entrepreneurs in Nigeria have won $32,500 for their clean-tech solutions to climate-related problems, the Guardian reports.
Schrodinger Tech, Givo Africa, and E-Sam Energy Solutions...more
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology think they've figured out a way to turn jellyfish into ocean researchers, the Los Angeles Times reports.
They're working on a "go-faster cap"...more
Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.