Resilience
San Francisco braces for the Big One with microgrids
The famously earthquake-prone California city is looking to mitigate unnecessary infrastructure risks. Read More
How businesses can build resilience by design
From product development to operations management, Dow, Cisco, GE, GM, IBM, Swiss Re and Toyota offer a range of lessons for resilience lessons. Read More
Shuffling the deck: A resilience plan for Atlantic City
A research and design firm has a plan to remake Atlantic City's ailing economy to become a global center for research on resiliency. Read More
How today's architects contribute to resilient cities
Do we expect too little of architects? Here are 4 ways they are exceeding expectations and building for the future. Read More
Resilience: Nature’s lessons for surviving its worst moods
Shocks to the built environment, like the recent earthquakes in Nepal, drive home the opportunity to borrow from ecosystems. Read More
New York City's plan to fuse sustainability, social equity and resilience
The Big Apple is following the lead of cities such as Los Angeles in breaking down barriers to address interconnected social and environmental obstacles. Read More
Mexico, the Philippines and why women are key to resilience
Women are disproportionately impacted by disasters, but they are rarely included in disaster and resilience planning. That must change. Read More
Resilience is the New Sustainability
Michael Kramer describes how investing needs to take ecological and geopolitical climate into account in his new book, The Resilient Investor. Read More
Bangladesh uses floating farms and solar to adapt to climate change
Ten percent of all Bangladeshi households rely on solar power, while floating schools and farms are a hedge against rising seas. Read More
Protect cities by embracing the ocean, not walling it off
An award-winning design project demonstrates how a resilient living wall could buffer Staten Island from extreme weather. Read More
