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Sponge Cities: China’s solution to water stress in the face of climate change

December 30, 2020
Chris Plummer
Chris Plummer
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China has started implementing new strategies to combat water stress in urban areas due to climate change. These strategies include green rooftops, urban wetland parks, permeable pavement, and a broad assortment...

Win-Win: When Environmental Regulation Leads to Technological Innovation

August 8, 2018
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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What is the best way to solve our most pressing environmental problems, such as carbon emissions causing global climate disruptions? Under the right conditions, technological...

Baby Steps Towards a Circular Economy in New York

July 7, 2018
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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My daughters and I recently went to the the Corning Preserve in downtown Albany and picked up eight garbage bags of water bottles, styrofoam cups,...

Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (3): Voluntary Green Neighbor Agreements

July 7, 2018
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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A third tool for residents of communities to enact conservation improvements in their immediate area (in addition to Watershed Protection Improvement Districts and Watershed Community...

Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (2): Watershed Community Cooperatives

July 6, 2018
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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This three-part blog series discusses a suite of tools that municipalities and other community stakeholders can use to address environmental problems at the local level. In...

Local Watershed Protection Toolkit (1): Watershed Protection Improvement District

July 6, 2018
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy
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Although many environmental measures take place at the federal and state levels or through federal-state partnerships (think Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Superfund, etc.),...