"We can't build single-purpose infrastructure any more," SCAPE Resilience Principal Pippa Brashear (@pippawb) tells @aliyaute for @guardian. "We're making ... a structure that supports life." https://t.co/UI0IIn8k1g
"The idea that incited this project almost a decade ago after Superstorm Sandy is just as powerful today: our coastal communities need deeply engaged, ecologically restorative blue-green infrastructure projects that help us respond to the reality of climate change."
—@KateOrff
.@RestoreDelta compiled a list of ways to support those affected by Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast, including organizations that are responding on the ground to ongoing impacts. Check it out. ⬇️
#CareNotCops
What if cities instead had billions in funding for a Department of Care? What if NYC had a $6 billion annual budget for the better care for our people, our places, and our planet?
We're proud to have published @KateOrff@scape_studio, the recipient of the 2019 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture!
https://t.co/VGzudZXh6p
“Nature makes the storm, but people make the infrastructure, and people decide—wittingly or not—who will be vulnerable when the storm comes.”
The Stark Inequality of Climate Change | The New Yorker https://t.co/sWUmToyddD
Today, Public Sediment for Alameda Creek received $31.4 million in implementation funding from the State of California. Our local team joined Senator @BobWieckowskiCA for the ceremony.
Congratulations team and @ResilientBay! 📸: @ArchEcoLab
BREAKING: The Alameda Creek Active Channel Project receives $31.4M in funding!!!! It will restore sediment flows & reconnect the Creek to the Baylands, balancing the needs of people, fish, and sediment in the watershed. #PublicSediment#Leadership#Resilience
Congrats to the SCAPE team for winning @ASLA_NY Honor Awards for Public Sediment for Alameda Creek and First Avenue Water Plaza and a Merit Award for Madison Avenue Plaza!
‘If we're really going to adapt to #climatechange, it's about behavior change, it's about us all thinking about living with water differently. And being willing to change and adapt over time.”
- Pippa from @scape_studio#SinkingCitiesPBS