Alyssa Curran

Urbanist Environmentalist

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Exciting things are happening at James Lima Planning + Development! Read up on the latest news: https://t.co/GnvJ7K1BK1 https://t.co/VFLzqGto1N

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Former EPA Administrator and Director of C-CHANGE at Harvard, @GinaEPA McCarthy: “don’t sit quietly on the sidelines...you have to stay in the game — what are the solutions for climate change that will lift everyone’s boat?” #CWNYC #ClimateAction #findtheopportunity

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Climate researchers increasingly precise: Stony Brook study assesses how much of Hurricane Florence’s rainfall, intensity and size is attributable to human-induced climate change. https://t.co/1nyuP8yvtK #climate #science #StepUp2018 #GCAS2018

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

“In California, facts and science still matter,” Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement. —> Read: LA Times, Climate change will be deadlier, more destructive and costlier for California than previously believed, state warns
https://t.co/sLYHvuumJe

[Jerry Brown @JerryBrownGov]

California will fight this stupidity in every conceivable way possible: https://t.co/OWqbFIUmUl

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Will automakers step up and achieve 50mpg by 2025 anyway bc that’s what being competitive is today and bc it’s the right thing to do? #50mpgby2025 #global #tech #climate #ghg #innovation #CSR
https://t.co/0cMfVXYn3q

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

“It’s made green building something that the average person can wrap their mind around,” said Hilary Beber Firestone. “You can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good when you’re trying to move an entire industry.” https://t.co/Ppf13IanwK https://t.co/xzfw97Sd7s

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Recent discussion on climate change impacts in Boston (though challenges not unique to Boston) #propertyrights #climatechange https://t.co/WznZgC4uvO https://t.co/8EKB3Lb3kS

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

"...this is the key year [2018] that needs to mark a dramatic shift in the decarbonization of the global economy..." 
Listen to @Christiana Figueres brief interview with The Climate Group: https://t.co/wvySlCgv1m https://t.co/QeREC6wBtE

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 2018. @ Old San Juan https://t.co/vo0q6xq4ei

[The Global Grid @theglobalgrid]

Preservationists vs. modernists: the debate over historic preservation in cities. #HistoricPreservation #savingplaces @BOSPreservation @aac1218 https://t.co/6PyLHEqrFR

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

@realDonaldTrump Humans require clean air & water! Spending $ to limit pollution is the issue here. Trump knows full well the immediate consequences of burning fossil fuels, but can’t allow biz to suffer. A select few are making too much money. Climate science is a threat Trump seeks to squash

[The Global Grid @theglobalgrid]

How can cities work to promote the public’'s interests when encouraging or limiting urban #growth and development? @aac1218 #urbanplanning https://t.co/z2Q73wUmhH

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

Why do you think hundreds of thousands of people protest pipelines? Deplorable. Intelligence v idiocy. Spills are no surprise. #environment https://t.co/0kgF7xVigN

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

210,000 gallons of oil have leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, according to TransCanada, the pipeline’s operator. https://t.co/ggqf43C20E

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

What is our present cultural awareness of the world? Time to wake up and be that innovation nation @neiltyson #greenbuild17 #future #cities

[Alyssa Curran @aac1218]

“The enduring question... a zero sum game, or a positive sum game? Where we all win if we work together” #Greenbuild2017 #future #cities

[Hannah Fairfield @hfairfield]

“If climate adaptation is a marathon, we’ve run about the first 50 yards so far. Grudgingly.” https://t.co/ewmcE0eUXv

[Mike Bloomberg @MikeBloomberg]

Moving #BeyondCoal has helped the US lead in reducing carbon emissions – and can speed similar progress globally. https://t.co/jlgn3TUlZk

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

In school, rarely do we learn skepticism, and how political winds can influence it, morphing skepticism into obstinance.

[AECOM @AECOM]

“Cities will be judged by how well they take care of their least well off person.” -Chris Ward at #ULIFall @UrbanLandInst