NYC Catastrophic Flash Flooding
Climate Migration is happening to society at many different levels around the world and is becoming more frequent and not just temporary anymore! Much like eastern North Carolina, that sits on a coastal plain, vulnerable to flooding due to the increase of extreme rainfall and hurricanes influenced by climate change.
Looking back, about 2 years ago, while working in corporate America, I would attend company meetings to discuss business development opportunities, identify new trends and mitigation efforts that would be needed in the future. I spoke up and said, “Soon the world will be facing mass migration of human civilizations at a large scale because of climate change”. Honestly, I am not sure how many of my team members really understood… Continue reading
Oculus, NYC
The time is ripe for innovation and thinking Greener! And that is exactly what NYC is doing. The city has some of the most ambitious building performance policies and regulations in the United States. These policies are reshaping our built environment while offering many new green jobs and opportunities for companies to prosper and become part of the clean green transition eliminating the need to burn fossil fuels.
Come 2024, all NYC buildings over 25Ksqft. will be required to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emission limits or face financial penalties which are proven to be effective in forcing the adoption of new concepts and preventing opposition.
In 2025, NYC will become one of the first cities in the world to adopt predicted energy use… Continue reading