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Viewpoint: As Weather Warms, Don’t Lose Urgency About Seaport Resiliency

With temperatures rising and skies brightening, we’re heading toward peak season for Harbor activity. As people flock to the waterfront—winter storms a distant memory—it’s critical we maintain urgency around resiliency planning.

→Source: Boston Business Journal
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How Should Boston Fund its Future?

We often take for granted the network of roads and rails, water and sewer lines, and the green infrastructure of open spaces, flood defenses, and a clean electric grid. These features form the structural framework that makes our society work, but they’re not working so well in Boston, and the city can do more to address the problem.

→Source: The Boston Globe
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Sea Change: Is Boston Climate Ready?

First released in late 2016, the City’s “Climate Ready Boston” Report, is an ongoing, predictive study of the city’s structural vulnerabilities and, many hope, a plan for crafting new, long-term solutions.

→Source: WCVB Chronicle
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Testimony at Boston City Council Hearing on Coastal Flooding

Jill Valdes Horwood, director of policy for Boston Harbor Now, testified at the May 29, 2018, Boston City Council hearing on coastal flooding.

→Source: Boston Harbor Now
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Boston’s Ad Hoc Planning Doesn’t Work with Climate Change

The ad hoc system of private deals and negotiations that defines Boston’s development process is particularly unsuited to addressing the threats of climate change.

→Source: The Boston Globe
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Two Instances of Once-In-A-Generation Floods Leave Many Questioning Region Preparedness

With two monster storms causing once-in-a-generation flooding eight weeks apart, what exactly is the city of Boston doing to address these environmental?

→Source: WGBH Greater Boston
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As Giant Storms Hammer Boston, Officials Are Doing Little to Prepare for Them

Impacts from climate change, which were supposed to wallop the area 80 years from now, are already menacing a region that is only beginning to talk about ways to protect itself.

→Source: The Washington Post
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Letter to the Editor: Waterfront Editorial was ‘Disappointing’

World-class cities are formed out of a combination of bold vision and high aspiration. By your own description, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan, which includes the Harbor Garage site, is neither visionary nor comprehensive.

→Source: Boston Business Journal
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Building for the Climate of the Future

Climate impacts are here now—and our coastal areas are bearing the brunt. Homes and buildings near the waterfront are already vulnerable to rising tides and flooding, especially during major storms.

→Source: Conservation Law Foundation
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Open Space, Green Infrastructure Could Protect Us From the Next ‘Bomb Cyclone’

As Winter Storm Grayson roared into the Northeast this past week, it wasn’t snow or freezing temperatures that brought our coastal cities to a state of emergency. It was water—too much of it, and in the wrong places.

→Source: Boston Business Journal
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