How to mitigate the effects of climate change, natural disasters
How to mitigate the effects of climate change, natural disasters
Contractors should plan, prepare and consider parametric insurance to help manage risks from extreme weather.
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Contractors should plan, prepare and consider parametric insurance to help manage risks from extreme weather.
Contractors should plan, prepare and consider parametric insurance to help manage risks from extreme weather.
More Home Buyers Have Flocked To Climate Risky Areas Despite Intensifying Natural Disasters
Migration to places with high heat risk has accelerated over time.
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Migration to places with high heat risk has accelerated over time. Home buyers have paid a premium for high-fire and high-flood-risk homes during the pandemic, according to research from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. This comes as more people have moved into than out of cli...
More Home Buyers Have Flocked To Climate Risky Areas Despite Intensifying Natural Disasters
Migration to places with high heat risk has accelerated over time.
AFP via Getty Images
Migration to places with high heat risk has accelerated over time. Home buyers have paid a premium for high-fire and high-flood-risk homes during the pandemic, according to research from Redfin, a technology-powered real estate brokerage. This comes as more people have moved into than out of cli...
Exculpatio by Nomad Studio and Global R&D Cemex is a silent demonstration and sculptural space that explores the lack of substantial action on climate change. Hosted in Venice and Switzerland, it’s part of the exhibition called PERSONAL STRUCTURES curated by the European Cultural Centre during the Venice Biennale 2022. The project looks at speech surrounding sustainability through concrete as a creative counterpart. The design morphs and adapts to its environment, and now stands in Switzerland...
Exculpatio by Nomad Studio and Global R&D Cemex is a silent demonstration and sculptural space that explores the lack of substantial action on climate change. Hosted in Venice and Switzerland, it’s part of the exhibition called PERSONAL STRUCTURES curated by the European Cultural Centre during the Venice Biennale 2022. The project looks at speech surrounding sustainability through concrete as a creative counterpart. The design morphs and adapts to its environment, and now stands in Switzerland...
As we adapt to a deteriorating environment, homeowners and renters must try to mitigate the damages brought by increasingly severe weather events.
As we adapt to a deteriorating environment, homeowners and renters must try to mitigate the damages brought by increasingly severe weather events.
They are thinking more seriously about flooding, but a lack of established standards for assessing development projects is challenging their efforts.
They are thinking more seriously about flooding, but a lack of established standards for assessing development projects is challenging their efforts.
Backup Plan: How Generac Thrives Amid Grid Blackouts And Natural Disasters Unsatisfied with an 80% market share in the home generator business, CEO Aaron Jagdfeld has big ideas for home microgrids. In 2008, things were looking grim for Generac. The 49-year-old firm, which makes natural-gas-powered backup generators, had been acquired a couple of years earlier by CCMP Capital, a New York City private equity shop. To buy out the 81-year-old founder’s 70% stake, CCMP had loaded up the Milwaukee-b...
Backup Plan: How Generac Thrives Amid Grid Blackouts And Natural Disasters Unsatisfied with an 80% market share in the home generator business, CEO Aaron Jagdfeld has big ideas for home microgrids. In 2008, things were looking grim for Generac. The 49-year-old firm, which makes natural-gas-powered backup generators, had been acquired a couple of years earlier by CCMP Capital, a New York City private equity shop. To buy out the 81-year-old founder’s 70% stake, CCMP had loaded up the Milwaukee-b...
While many currently put little thought into where the water for their shower, garden or kitchen tap comes from, that may soon change as traditional sources for water dry up and disappear. “People are sometimes taught in school that water is a 'renewable resource', but water isn’t necessarily renewable in the way many people think,” says Mike McKinney, vice president and district manager for PCL Construction’s civil infrastructure division. “Renewable does not mean unlimited.” Mc...
While many currently put little thought into where the water for their shower, garden or kitchen tap comes from, that may soon change as traditional sources for water dry up and disappear. “People are sometimes taught in school that water is a 'renewable resource', but water isn’t necessarily renewable in the way many people think,” says Mike McKinney, vice president and district manager for PCL Construction’s civil infrastructure division. “Renewable does not mean unlimited.” Mc...
A new California legislative analysis suggests climate change poses a particular hazard to employees who cannot avoid outdoor exposure, including construction workers, and that the risk is increasing.
A new California legislative analysis suggests climate change poses a particular hazard to employees who cannot avoid outdoor exposure, including construction workers, and that the risk is increasing.
Key Findings Since 2010, over 250,000 Americans have left the counties most at risk for climate change; over 75% of those moves took place in the last five years An estimated 21,000 people relocated to escape climate change in 2020 People fleeing climate change were over four times more likely to leave the state (64%) […]
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Key Findings Since 2010, over 250,000 Americans have left the counties most at risk for climate change; over 75% of those moves took place in the last five years An estimated 21,000 people relocated to escape climate change in 2020 People fleeing climate change were over four times more likely to leave the state (64%) […]
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Houses along Baxter Road on the island of Nantucket have always been precarious real estate: property at the edge of the world with a built-in expiration date. Baxter runs parallel to Sconset Bluff, a stunning sand escarpment on the easternmost point of the Massachusetts island — the boomerang-shaped wedge of sand and clay 30 miles south of Cape Cod. Some say that when a developer carved the area into lots, he anticipated the inevitable when he made each parcel a double lot bisected by the roa...
Houses along Baxter Road on the island of Nantucket have always been precarious real estate: property at the edge of the world with a built-in expiration date. Baxter runs parallel to Sconset Bluff, a stunning sand escarpment on the easternmost point of the Massachusetts island — the boomerang-shaped wedge of sand and clay 30 miles south of Cape Cod. Some say that when a developer carved the area into lots, he anticipated the inevitable when he made each parcel a double lot bisected by the roa...