built environment
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Why Did This Journalist Enroll in the Climate and Society Program?
Vishal Manve is looking for new ways to help make the world more sustainable and just.
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Paying the Costs of Climate Resilience
We need a stronger and more resilient built environment to withstand the rains, wind, heat, and cold of climate-accelerated extreme weather events.
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Climate Mobilization and a Sustainable New York City
As New York City evolves into a sustainable city, the experience we have in transforming our old energy system to a new one will be valuable, and the transformation itself will make this very old place newer than it looks.
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Investigating How the Built Environment Impacts Health and Equality
Having grown up poor, urbanist and Earth Institute faculty member Malo Hutson brings a unique perspective to his work with displaced and impoverished people.
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New York City’s Sustainable Dream
New York City is always in the global media and the images of this place are the inescapable backdrop of the emerging global culture. And that culture does not require the luxury consumer goods that are now available in all of the world’s major cities. Its core culture values a place that is safe to…
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Conflict, Displaced Persons and the Built Environment
Changing personal and social narratives can address issues of internal displacement in the built environment, as in this case in Medellín, Colombia.
