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New Perspectives on Climate Change — CNU Climate Summit

Island Press author Peter Calthorpe speaking at the CNU Climate Summit on the ways urban planners and designers can understand the real consequences of climate change across different interest groups. For more information on Urban Footprint, visit https://urbanfootprint.io/.

Diversifying Urban Design - CNU 25 Panel

This panel explores the dearth of diversity in urban design and planning—and its impact on communities. It also suggests ways to build a pipeline of talent that better reflects the diversity of cities.

Trumping the Transportation Progress Our Cities Need

By Linda Bailey / On May 23rd, 2017

President Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for the transportation networks that are key to the growth engines of today's economy: cities and their suburbs.

Climate justice leaders are pushing forward in the Trump era

By Laurie Mazur / On May 22nd, 2017

A round-table discussion with environmental justice leaders on the challenges (and opportunities) of the Trump era

Diversity Is Not Enough. And It Can Be Counterproductive

By Jacqueline Patterson / On March 8th, 2017

If your organization/coalition/group views racial and ethnic diversity as an endpoint, and is only ready to add another color to your crayon box, please give deep consideration to your intent and process.

How We Tackle Climate Change, Even With a Denier in Chief

By Laurie Mazur / On January 18th, 2017

Cities and states can step up their efforts to tackle global warming—with or without federal leadership.

What Will Urban Policy Look Like Under a Trump Presidency?

By Alan Mallach / On January 11th, 2017

Spoiler alert: It's likley to be a long four years for urbanists and city folk.

Escaping Climate Change? Not So Simple

By Alan Mallach / On December 7th, 2016

Trying to predict how different US cities will be affected by climate change is something like trying to predict the movement of a single molecule in a sea of Brownian motion. Not only are the direct impacts of climate change complex, and not limited to hotter temperatures and higher sea levels, but any prediction needs to take account not only the gradual unfolding of change over time, and the considerable adaptability of human beings and their institutions.

Oakland rejects coal terminal, sets climate change example

By Linda Rudolph, Keanan McGonigle / On August 9th, 2016

Two weeks ago, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted to ban the handling and storage of coal in the city, quashing a proposal to build what could have been the largest coal export facility in California.

The Bipartisan Climate Solution: A Tax Swap

By Emil H. Frankel, Keith Kozloff / On July 21st, 2016

You wouldn’t know it from today’s polarized politics, but protecting the environment used to be a bipartisan effort. There were, of course, the path-breaking conservation achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican. And, in the 1970s through the 1990s major federal environmental legislation – the National Environmental Policy Act, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act – occurred under Republican administrations in cooperation with Democratic Congressional leadership.

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