On October 8th, 2014 EPA joined with federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and
private-sector entities to form the Green Infrastructure Collaborative, a network to help communities more easily implement green infrastructure.

The Collaborative released a Statement of Support (15 pp, 281K, About PDF) outlining  commitments from members to advance coordination around green infrastructure initiatives.

For more information:  http://water.epa.gov/infrastructure/greeninfrastructure/gi_partners.cfm

“The Living Breakwaters project combines coastal resiliency infrastructure with habitat enhancement techniques and community engagement, deploying a layered strategy that links in-water protective forms to on-shore interventions. We aim to mitigate the risk to humans from periodic weather extremes, improve the quality of our everyday lives, and rebuild our ecosystem.” —Kate Orff, Project Director, Living Breakwaters

http://bfi.org/ideaindex/projects/2014/living-breakwaters

DISASTER RESEARCH CENTER

THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS:
HAZARD, DISASTER, AND THE CHALLENGES AHEADEDITED BY JAMES KENDRA, SCOTT GABRIEL KNOWLES, AND TRICIA WACHTENDORFInterested authors: Using the form on the right side of this page,
submit a 500-700 word extended abstract by July 1st, 2015.


http://drc.udel.edu/50th-chapters/

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The U.S. government’s recent release of climate change measures designed to help governments, businesses and individuals make decisions around climate change marked a major milestone for University of Maryland scientist Melissa Kenney. Kenney was a leader in the four-year-long development of recommendations and prototype indicators that formed the basis of the 14 proof-of-concept climate change indicators selected and released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

For the rest of the article by Lee Tune click here.

Thursday, May 21
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm EDT

The Along the Urban Path series is a practical primer on the burgeoning topic of urban resilience. Webinar 2 examines the interaction of pairs of systems to provide the audience with a way to consider the impacts and resulting trade offs of actions in one system on another. It will include

• Bill Solecki from City University of New York who will assess the socio-technological impacts of Hurricane Sandy
• Authors of the Royal Society Resilience to Extreme Weather Report and
• Peter Groffman with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies focusing on ecological, cultural, and economic forces that shape the environmental quality of urbanized areas

Attendees, curious minds, practitioners, and the general public are invited to dialogue about the webinars and the topic of “urban resilience” before and after the live webinars on the Security & Sustainability Forum LinkedIn Group page in the designated thread.

The third webinar in the series will be scheduled for June and cover the integration of social, ecological, and technological systems on the urban path to resilience. 
 
The series is co hosted by Second Nature, the National Council on Science and the Environment and the American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education.