Climate resilience newsletter | New 2021-2025 Action Agenda; CaD Studio Open House
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Climate Adaptation in the Hudson River Estuary |
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New 2021-2025 Action AgendaWe are happy to announce the newly approved 2021-2025 Hudson River Action Agenda! The Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda 2021-2025 is a conservation and restoration blueprint that guides the work of the Estuary Program and its partners. The Estuary Program develops the essential actions necessary to achieve that vision; implementation of the Action Agenda relies on partnerships. Federal and state agencies, as well as local municipalities, nonprofits, academic and scientific institutions, businesses, landowners, and dedicated volunteers all play a role.Our Climate Team will lead the Climate-adaptive Communities benefit. The Action Agenda will guide the climate team to complete the following measures of success:
Native American Heritage MonthNovember was Native American Heritage Month, a month dedicated to recognizing the significant contributions Indigenous peoples have made to protect our shared environment. From advocacy efforts to protect the Allegheny River from pollution and construction of the Onondaga Nation’s new eco-friendly firehouse, to the removal of a dam blocking fish migration up the Saint Regis River, Indigenous Nations have been instrumental in advancing critical environmental initiatives. For example, earlier this year, in recognition of the Seneca Nation’s sovereignty, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the Nation’s application to assume regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) in a manner similar to a state, enabling the Nation to implement its own water quality standards and certification programs, as well as participate in CWA grant programs. With this designation, the Seneca Nation has begun to develop and establish water quality standards and certify federal permits and license uses for surface waters within and upstream from Nation territories. To show respect for our Indigenous neighbors, DEC is actively supporting the process of renaming agency-managed resources. These include Skenoh Island, in Canandaigua Lake and Ganowtachgerage Road in Hammond Hill State Forest. DEC welcomes public input on additional changes to location names. Please email justice@dec.ny.gov with suggestions. https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/or visit DEC’s Native American Heritage Month webpage. Upcoming EventsCornell Climate-adaptive Design Studio Open House December 13, 2021, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. The Climate-adaptive Design (CaD) Studio is a program led by Professor Joshua Cerra, Cornell University Landscape Architecture Department, in partnership with the DEC Hudson River Estuary Program. This semester's CaD Studio was hosted by the City of Poughkeepsie. The landscape architecture students will be presenting their design strategies for a more connected, climate-adapted Poughkeepsie waterfront at the December 13th Open House event. Join us (virtually) to reimagine possibilities of the Poughkeepsie waterfront!
December 6 – 9, 2021 PACE University's Land Use Law Center is pleased to announce the 20th annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference. Scheduled for December 6 - 9, 2021, this year’s conference theme is Rx for Land Use Reform: Meeting the Challenge in a Time of Crisis.This conference will explore how to meet the growing challenges of public health: climate change and resiliency, housing insecurity, and racial discrimination. American Society of Adaptation Professionals December 7, 2021, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. Hear about the climate in-migration methodologies developed through the New York State Climate Migration Methodology Accelerator, learn about potential migration into and out of the Great Lakes region and throughout New York State, and have an opportunity to network with other participants and experts in the field. NYS Climate Resilience Leadership
Congratulations to the Newly Certified Climate Smart Communities in our Region!Capital District
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New ResourcesGreening (In)Equitably: Visions, Processes, and Distributions for Green Infrastructure in US Cities On Thursday, October 14, 2021, featured speaker Zbigniew J. Grabowski, PhD presented Greening (In)Equitably: Visions, Processes, and Distributions for Green Infrastructure in US Cities. Zbigniew J. Grabowski, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Visiting Scholar at The Urban Systems Lab at The New School. A recording of the talk is available on the Hudson River Watershed Alliance’s YouTube channel. Ongoing debates over the equity of green infrastructure (GI) programs often focus on the distribution and benefits of the investments. Mr. Grabowski and colleagues reviewed over 120 GI plans from twenty US cities to evaluate definitions of equity, procedural equity, and strategies to influence distributional equity. NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program Annual Conference: Waterway Stories Water Quality, Access and Community On November 15 - 18, members of the community, non-profits, academia, and local, state and federal government were invited to talk about water quality and how it affects our lives and our community. How should we encourage equitable and safe waterfront access? How do we best communicate about risk? View the recordings of the conference on the HEP website. DEIJ Resource Flowchart The SCA Hudson Valley Corps Environmental Leadership Institute Class of 2021 created this series of interactive flowcharts (screenshot below) to help anyone find their path in unlearning racism. Some of the topics introduced in the flow charts include racism in the environmental movement, what it means to be anti-racist, why it is important to engage in anti-racism as environmentalists, and how to start to implement change in different fields. The flowcharts have clickable text and photos that send you to different kinds of resources which vary in intensity. Research: Andrew Bechdel, Grace Brennen, Zarria Brown, Olga Iwaniuk, Jesenia Laureano, Juliet Linzmeier ,Abigail Natelson, James Newport, Alexa Maione, Helena Mazurek, Andrew Meashaw, Anna Pirkey, Audrey Trossen Design: Jesenia Laureano First Street Foundation Community Level Flood Resilience Report First Street Foundation publishes community level flood resilience report. This new research highlights the cities and counties across the US who have experienced flood risk to their residential properties, roads, commercial properties, and social and critical infrastructure. View the report online. Central Climate Sea-Level Rise Modeling Climate Central is pleased to announce the release of CoastalDEM® v2.1, a near-global digital elevation model for ocean coastal areas. CoastalDEM v2.1 has substantially reduced bias and error scatter even compared to its predecessor, CoastalDEM v1.1, providing new, up-to-date sea-level rise models from the recent IPCC report, as well as the coastal elevation models. NY Sea Grant Environmental Justice Mapping Tools Series NY Sea Grant's new Environmental Justice Mapping Tools Guide highlights publicly available online tools to connect communities with data for exploring environmental justice locally. News Roundup
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