Risk Pools for Climate-Influenced Disasters
Nineteen African nations have joined together in an effort to prepare for the current and future effects of climate change. They enacted a risk pooling strategy that unlocks funding when climate influenced disasters strike. The member states of...
Electric School Bus Funding: New York Giveth and (Tries to) Taketh
Funding for electric school buses in New York is on two tracks going in opposite directions. On one hand, the State just announced an additional...
Sponge Cities: China’s solution to water stress in the face of climate change
China has started implementing new strategies to combat water stress in urban areas due to climate change. These strategies include green rooftops, urban wetland parks, permeable pavement, and a broad assortment...
Composting is Easy. Here is Video Proof.
Here’s a quick little video demonstrating uncontrovertible evidence that composting is not that hard. Take a look!...
Win-Win: When Environmental Regulation Leads to Technological Innovation
What is the best way to solve our most pressing environmental problems, such as carbon emissions causing global climate disruptions? Under the right conditions, technological...
Baby Steps Towards a Circular Economy in New York
My daughters and I recently went to the the Corning Preserve in downtown Albany and picked up eight garbage bags of water bottles, styrofoam cups,...
Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (3): Voluntary Green Neighbor Agreements
A third tool for residents of communities to enact conservation improvements in their immediate area (in addition to Watershed Protection Improvement Districts and Watershed Community...
Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (2): Watershed Community Cooperatives
This three-part blog series discusses a suite of tools that municipalities and other community stakeholders can use to address environmental problems at the local level. In...
Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (1): Watershed Protection Improvement District
Although many environmental measures take place at the federal and state levels or through federal-state partnerships (think Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Superfund, etc.),...