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Adapting Transportation to the Impacts of Climate Change

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
Report Dated June 2011
Regardless of what climate change mitigation strategies are adopted, the shorter-term effects of climate change mean that transportation policy makers, planners, and operators—across all modes—need to make changes to adapt to these effects. This E-Circular on adaptation, developed under the auspices of the TRB Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy, is a companion to the TR News Special Edition issue of May–June 2010 on climate change mitigation.

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Tags: Climate Change, emergency preparedness, transportation, TRB
Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Environment, Infra Views, Recovery

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Google Crisis Map for Hurricane Sandy

Monday, November 5th, 2012

This map displays information about current crises and events for which the Google Crisis Response team has collected geographic information. The data comes from a variety of sources, including official information sources and user-generated content. See the Layers list for additional details about each layer.

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Tags: Gas, Google Crisis Map, Hurricane Sandy, power outages, shelter locations
Posted in Accountability, Energy, Environment, Show Us Your Infra, Transit, Urban Planning

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Hurricane Sandy: What Now?

Monday, November 5th, 2012

With relief efforts underway, experts weigh in on Sandy’s effect on the future of American infrastructure:

“Hurricane Sandy is an urgent reminder that strengthening our infrastructure is a critical need that should not be subjected to politics of any kind…”
-Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

“We have to find ways to build [New York City] back stronger and better than ever before to make sure that if there is still another situation like this, another weather pattern like this, we’re more prepared and more protected than we have been thus far.”
-NY Governor Andrew Cuomo

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Tags: Climate Change, CT, DE, Hurricane Sandy, NC, New Jersey, New York, NJ, NY, Recovery, Relief, RI, Sandy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Transportation
Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Environment, Local, National, Policy, The Infra Blog

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Hurricane Sandy Recovery: Assessing the Damage & Beginning To Rebuild

Monday, November 5th, 2012

On New York City’s Staten Island: New Dorp Beach Residents Starting Over From Scratch Work On The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Continues In Rockaway, Queens, Resilient NY Residents Find Food And Clothing Beach Erosion in Ocean City, MD Assessing The Power Line Damage in Worcester, MA

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Tags: Beach Erosion, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Gas Crisis, MA, MD, New Dorp Beach, NJ, NY, NYC, Ocean City, Power Line Damage, Rockaway, staten island, Worcester
Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Energy, Environment, Recovery, Roads, Show Us Your Infra

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Gold Hill, OR: Kane Creek Fix

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Backhoes, dump trucks and other heavy construction equipment typically aren’t the machinery that comes to mind when you think of fish habitat restoration, but at Kane Creek, a Rogue River tributary near Gold Hill, these resources and more are clearing obstacles for the upstream migration of steelhead and other species. – OregonDOT on YouTube

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Tags: Gold Hill, Kane Creek, OR, Oregon, OregonDOT, Rogue River, YouTube
Posted in Environment, Inland Waterways, Local, Show Us Your Infra

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PBS Newshour: Key to a Cool City? It’s in the Trees

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Peter Calthorpe, urban designer and author of “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”, has worked on some of the biggest urban design projects in the United States over the last 20 years, in places including Portland, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and post-hurricane southern Louisiana. He said the best thing cities can do to keep cool is plant trees.

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Tags: PBS, PBS NewsHour, Peter Calthorpe, Trees
Posted in Clean Air, Environment, National, Pollution, Show Us Your Infra, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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Sustainability at Harvard University: Impact Report

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

HARVARD OFFICE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
The Harvard Office for Sustainability embarked upon the process of developing a university-wide impact report in partnership with Harvard’s twelve Schools and administrative departments in order to:

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Tags: Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Office for Sustainability, Harvard University, OFS
Posted in Accountability, Clean Air, Energy, Environment, Green, Infra Views, LEED, Local, Pollution, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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Rails to Trails: Forging Linear Parks for All

Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Today’s cities increasingly need to look at alternative solutions to find more green space. So organizations such as the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the PATH Foundation and the City Parks Alliance are looking at unused infrastructures as opportunities to build new parks. So-called linear parks are much longer than wide and are formed as part of a […]

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Tags: High Line, Linear Parks, Rails To Trails
Posted in Environment, Public Parks & Recreation, Show Us Your Infra

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Energy Democracy – Community Innovation in Boston

Monday, August 27th, 2012

Figure 1: Community Innovations in Boston (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
Communities of color have been environmental activists for decades. These are communities most often victimized by poor environmental planning, regulations, and decision‐making. In the last twenty years, communities of color in the Boston area have united and won a Boston‐wide plan to run buses on cleaner burning fuel, stopped a diesel fueled power plant from being located across from the only elementary school in the diverse Chelsea neighborhood, and ended illegal dumping of trash and toxic materials in abandoned lots throughout the communities of Roxbury and Dorchester.

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Tags: Boston, Center for Social Inclusion, CSI, Green Communities Act, Massachusetts
Posted in Employment, Energy, Environment, Equity, Funding, Infra Views, Jobs, Local, Public Parks & Recreation

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