A 20-Foot Sea Wall Won’t Save Miami – But Living Structures Can
How to rescue Miami…and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.
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New York City Subway Flooding Demonstrates Transit System Vulnerability to Climate Change
More frequent and severe New York City subway floods demonstrate how climate change is crippling critical infrastructure.
Read more...Australian Funds Take Aim at Private Equity by Moving to Do Deals in House
More challenges to private equity firms, now from super sized Australian “super” funds who are bringing PE in house.
Read more...Book Review: America’s Long Struggle to Tame Its Greatest Rivers
Rivers are live entities. Alter its flow, and a river will respond — though it might take humans time to notice.
Read more...Parking Reform Could Reenergize Downtowns – Here’s What Happened When Buffalo Changed its Zoning Rule
Rezoning cities to prioritize people instead of parking would free more space for affordable housing and encourage use of public transportation.
Read more...Keystone XL Developer Abandons Pipeline Project
In an apparent victory for environmentalists, the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline has pulled the plug on the project.
Read more...The Front Lines of Climate Change: Cyclone Yaas and the Sundarbans
Cyclone Yaas smacked India and Bangladesh in late May. Its most severe impact was on the Sundarbans, the vast delta the two countries share.
Read more...Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack
You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
Read more...Stock Buybacks Stand in the Way of Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
Hedge fund managers are pushing U.S. firms to play Wall Street games instead of investing in technologies of the future.
Read more...Nomi Prins: To Build or Not to Build? The Infrastructure Question
For all sorts of bad reasons, American has a huge infrastructure spending backlog. But can we even do the job well?
Read more...Why the U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance Is Essential for U.S. Survival
Maintaining and reviving manufacturing capacity in key insutries is vital to preserving jobs and ensuring U.S. survival.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Signs Are Everywhere: Businesses Have Changed Permanently as a Result of the Pandemic
The pandemic has caused many shifts in how businesses operate: permanent and many are positives and should have happened a long time ago.
Read more...New Report: U.S. Dams, Levees Get D Grades, Need $115 Billion in Upgrades
Heavier precipitation caused by climate change is straining aging flood-control systems throughout the U.S.
Read more...America Needs New Infrastructure to Survive, But Will Biden Deliver?
What will come of Biden’s grand infrastructure plans? And will they be as green as he promised?
Read more...The Internet’s Big Carbon Footprint Need Not Doom the Climate
Efficiency and renewable energy can help make the internet more sustainable.
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