Florida women learned sobering lessons at the climate conference in Glasgow
By John Burr, Resilience Jax We checked back with two Florida women who attended the recent United Nationsâ COP26 conference ...
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Florida women are at the Glasgow climate summit and they have ambitious goals
By John Burr, Resilience Jax The Invading Sea contacted three women from Florida who are attending the United Nationâs COP26 ...
Floridians need to demand that their political leaders act now to lessen the damage weâre going to suffer from the warming climate
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Letâs face facts: Weâve blown it. The earthâs climate is heating rapidly, sea levels are ...
Protecting Miami from storm surge and sea-level rise is more than a question of walls and pumps
By John Burr, Resilient Jax Youâve probably heard about the plans to build a six-mile, $6 billion wall across Biscayne ...
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 ...
Report warns that Jacksonville faces an expensive âfight that will be waged over decades to protect the city from the changing climateâ
By John Burr, Resilient Jax The blunt warning from a Republican Jacksonville city councilmember, in a city known as a ...
Legislators acknowledge climate threat and pass âClean Waterways Act,â but the bill is another weak response to the growing danger
In Florida we have a habit of cheering half measures and Johnny-come-lately actions from our public leaders. To wit: The ...
Electric vehicles are increasingly popular and Florida officials recognize they need to plan for the switch from gasoline
When you think of electric cars, chances are one name comes to mind: Tesla. But not for long. Ford, Volkswagen, ...
It may sound ugly, but âretreatâ is a concept Floridians are going to have to embrace as the water rises
Retreat is such an un-American concept. Rhymes with defeat, and considered synonymous. Yet as we move further and faster into ...
Jacksonvilleâs political leaders reportedly plan to hire a resiliency officer to help the city cope with the climate crisis
Jacksonville is on its way to joining the ranks of other Floridaâs major cities by hiring a chief resiliency officer ...
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