Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price
By Chris McGreal This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, ...
Month: June 2021
Surfside building collapse is a shocking wake-up call for coastal condo homeowner associations
By Albert J. Slap, President, RiskFootprint™ In the middle of the night on June 24, a 40-year-old, 12-story condominium in ...
Doug Coward: Florida’s affordable housing homeowners need access to loans so they can better cope with the changing climate
An interview with Doug Coward, Solar and Energy Loan Fund As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” ...
Architects in Jacksonville are designing buildings to withstand far worse flooding from rising seas than government officials foresee
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Now it is set in concrete: Downtown Jacksonville faces a dire flooding threat from sea-level ...
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is using the power of democracy to tackle the challenges of the climate crisis
By Sam Daley-Harris, of the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS The dire warnings of democracy’s demise are everywhere. Story after story taunts ...
DeSantis should appoint a powerful statewide resilience officer who will tackle Florida’s growing climate challenges
By Jon Paul “J.P.” Brooker, Florida Conservation for Ocean Conservancy As Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Secretary Noah Valenstein ...
Anthony Abbate: Floridians can’t overcome the effects of the warming climate because we suffer from ‘short-termism’
An interview with Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” which highlights ...
FAU’s Home & High Water S1 E4. Plants Not Pipes: A Solution to Florida’s Stormwater Pollution Problem
// Cameron Peters Host of Home & High Water What if plants could offer a natural solution to Florida’s climate ...
Legislators aren’t doing enough to protect Florida from the damage caused by the warming climate
Christian Wagley, of Healthy Gulf If you had a leak in your roof that got larger and dumped gallons of ...
Ina Lee: To address climate threats, Florida’s business leaders need to develop a unified message and lobby the federal government
An interview with Ina Lee, president of TravelHost Media Group As part of its series “The Business of Climate Change,” ...
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