Big Win for Climate: #GasFreeNYC will likely be passed next week, which means that new buildings & gut renovations in NYC won’t have gas hookups, eliminating the largest source of #AirPollution & #GreenhouseGases in the city! #PassIntro2317 weact.org/wp-content/upl…

Also, I’m recruiting a postdoc to work on urban water sustainability and management transitions. Contact me or chat with any of the team for more info: dropbox.com/s/3qujinw7f9d5…

Prestigious prize alert: Congrats to Urban Resilience Executive Team member Timon McPhearson (he/him) and others involved in the ENABLE project!

Call for papers! The journal Nature (npj) Sustainability invites submissions for a special issue, "#Covid, Cities and Sustainability" exploring how cities are adapting to #COVID19 to enable them to be more #resilient. Biophilic Cities npj Journals 📰 nature.com/npjurbansustai…

New book chapter out, "The Case of Green Infrastructure in NYC" co-authored by USL's Zbigniew J Grabowski, Timon McPhearson (he/him), Dr. Katinka Wijsman L. Ortiz Uriarte, @PabloHerreros4 in "Challenges and Opportunities for the metropolitan green infrastructure" by @iermbcn 👉 bit.ly/3K4g0fI

BiodiverCities: how infrastructure could transform the urban relationship with nature Iván Duque 🇨🇴 #DavosAgenda wef.ch/3FAukcg

We're looking for a PhD student to help us explore the role and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions in transformations toward equitability and sustainability, focusing on the #food and #finance sectors. Is this you? Apply by 11 Feb: buff.ly/3KieW85 Stockholm University

#ESG2022 Conference Deadline Extension for Panel and Paper submissions. New date: 15th Feb. We received several requests to extend this deadline and are happy to accommodate given the challenging circumstances to deliver at this time of year. See #CfP💬earthsystemgovernance.org/2022toronto/ca…

In case you missed it, a video recording of the Cary Institute webinar "Building Equity in GI Planning" with Timon McPhearson (he/him) and Zbigniew J Grabowski is now available online 👇 caryinstitute.org/news-insights/… #green #infrastructure The New School

Next up on our member highlight is @stephen_elser and the fantastic @FutureCitiesPod!

Congrats to Cary’s Steward Pickett, a recipient of the Fundación BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in #Ecology and Conservation Biology, for his pioneering research integrating human-natural systems + spatial relations to advance sustainable cities globally. frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/galardonados/s…

Take a listen during your lunch break today to listen to me ramble if you have a chance! Chances are this trend is happening near you too 🙇🏽‍♂️

#infrastructure must function in increasingly complex environments yet appear increasingly unable to do so. In our latest work we describe Infrastructure Autopoiesis, the requisite variety to engage complexity. doi.org/10.1088/2634-4…

Visit us at the #naturaldisasterexpo to learn more about how FIU is helping mitigate natural disasters FIU Institute of Environment

#Infrastructure transformation necessitates a recognition of social, ecological, and technological systems (SETS) dynamics. In this work, we discuss why cities need to evolve from SES to SETS #resilience &how Safe-to-fail design leverages SETS capabilities authors.elsevier.com/a/1eZYB6gsyPm0…

USL's @PabloHerreros4 and Christopher Kennedy featured in this Amazon Web Services news post highlighting work supported by Kresge Foundation to research the environmental injustice of urban #flood risk in US #cities. To listen and learn more 👇 aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-p…

On March 17 @ 7pm ET, join us for a virtual panel on the ecology of segregation and ways research can support urban justice. Featuring urban ecologist Steward Pickett (Cary), landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) & urban planner Marccus D. Hendricks (Univ. of Maryland). eventbrite.com/e/the-ecology-…

🌳Contribute to a special issue of npj Journals on #naturebasedsolutions. Click here to learn more and to submit: nature.com/npjurbansustai…

The CSU Ecology FRSES 🌍 keynote address from @DrNitrogen is a message of urgency and hope: how to build climate resilience in urban ecosystems. “Envisioning positive futures and nature-based solutions for the Anthropocene.”

This SETS framework for Urban Ecosystem Services was literally years in the making and I'm excited it's finally out co-led by Elizabeth Cook w/ input from amazing Urban Resilience and NATURA scholars. Many hypotheses here to test! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…