September 27, 2019 – climate adaptation partners

Tel Aviv-Yafo Accelerator

By Leo | September 27, 2019 | No Comments | adaptation, resilience, urban heat

Janice has been invited to work with the City of Tel Aviv on ways to address extreme heat as part of the Rockefeller Foundation/Columbia University Resilience Accelerator in October.

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With climate change experts around the world, I help clients to co-create adaptation strategies by asking “how might we?” Three powerful words.

Janice Barnes @Janice_Barnes·

19m

How about a #HeatTax and/or a #HeatBank? How might cities generate fees, like stormwater fees, or banks, like wetland banks, to address #extremeheat? How might development be otherwise incentivized to draw down urban heat? Public sector likely can't do it alone. #WeCantUnknowThis

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Janice Barnes @Janice_Barnes·

25 Sep

In The Case for Ecological Realism, Stewart Patrick urges a fundamental shift in thinking, from politically bounded to ecologically relevant, anchoring our core problem of assuming that our historically drawn edges actually matter. #WeCantUnknowThis https://lnkd.in/d5PyTeM

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Janice Barnes @Janice_Barnes·

23 Sep

Perspective: hard to get, hard to keep.

“Don’t think of it as the warmest month of August in California in the last century,” he wrote. “Think of it as one of the coolest months of August in California in the next century.”

#WeCantUnknowThis https://lnkd.in/du758k8

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Dr. G Guenther 🇺🇸@DoctorVive·

30 Aug

"You can have four more years of Trump, or you can have a habitable planet. But you can’t have both."

@jeffgoodell laying it all out👇

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/hurricane-laura-california-wildfire-climate-crisis-jeff-goodell-1050746/

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Janice Barnes @Janice_Barnes·

1 Sep

An important summary, but a very challenging message: #WeCantUnknowThis https://lnkd.in/dg4SKKu

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An advocate for transdisciplinary collaboration in climate mitigation and adaptation teams with a penchant for large, complex, messy projects. #wecantunknowthis

LeoT @LeoTemko·

22 Jul

Hello @amazon! Why on earth are you selling caltrops? Aren’t these illegal in many municipalities?

https://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Security-Protection-Spike-Small/dp/B087RGKPRD/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Caltrop&qid=1595419138&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1

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LeoT @LeoTemko·

13 Jul

Technology and Science, critically important to achieving meaningful change, alone will “not get us there”. Collaboration between GIS PROFESSIONALS is critical! #EsriUC2020

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LeoT @LeoTemko·

13 Jul

In a world where everything is interconnected, “Understanding Precedes Action”! #EsriUC2020

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Day: September 27, 2019

Tel Aviv-Yafo Accelerator