Committee Chair Craig Kelley Explores #EastCoastResiliency
On Wednesday, August 24, Craig will start a two week #EastCoastResiliency bike tour through New England. Roughly paralleling Route 95 from Houlton, ME, to (eventually) Key West, FL, Craig will be cycling through communities of all types along the East Coast. Along the way, he will be stopping to ask people two basic questions: What makes them worry and what makes them feel safe? Anticipated to last roughly 3 years of periodic riding interspersed with related research, Craig i
What makes a "neighborhood disaster," and what do we gain by defining them?
As residents of Concord, MA, emerged from their homes early Monday morning, they knew that a powerful storm had swept through their town the previous night. Downed trees made many roads impassable, power was out (perhaps for days), and several homes and local businesses had sustained significant damage. (Thankfully no injuries are reported.) As the day progressed, the damage remained the same, but the designation of the event that caused the damage had changed. “I’ve seen eno
Resilient Reads: Managed Retreat, and "Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming?"
In confronting the increasing severity of tomorrow’s climatic events, solutions proposed by architects and science range from the practical—like storing batteries for power failures—to the fantastical—like futuristic geoengineering that imagines manmade ecosystems on a regional scale. Relocating, a practice well understood by our resilient ancestors, however, curries little favor. When the idea of “deprivatizing” some 139,000 million square miles of the American West to creat
