Boulder, Colorado, is no stranger to environmental shocks and stresses. Devastating flash floods have hit the city — in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains — half a dozen times since …
York City's new mayor needs to make resilience a top priority. “Part of the formula for improving the lives of the most vulnerable among us is to build these resilient capacities for …
"Resilience is the ability of people, communities and institutions to prepare for, withstand, and bounce back more rapidly from acute shocks and chronic stresses."
When senior leaders at a large, global …
Participants in the Informal City Dialogues innovation workshop in Lima explored ways to make their city more resilient and inclusive. One early challenge was clearly explaining the concept of resilience …
This post originally appeared in Crain's New York Business on January 3, 2014. New Yorkers expect two things above all from our mayor: to keep us safe and to keep our …
NEW YORK—Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that New York has launched the nation's first state-led pay for success project, an initiative to train and employ formerly incarcerated individuals. Private …
The Rockefeller Foundation recently concluded a three-year initiative focused on maximizing the number, quality and accessibility of green jobs in the United States. The Sustainable Employment in a Green US …
A version of this post also appeared on 100 Resilient Cities. Whether he was leading the national response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the United States, or dealing with a …
New York's subways and buses serve more riders each day than the twenty next largest U.S. transit systems combined. However, the city's outer boroughs are plagued with long distances, infrequent …
Officials from Medellín, Colombia; Dakar, Senegal; Oakland, California, and New Orleans, Louisina provided first-hand perspectives on both challenges and solutions to urban resilience at The Rockefeller Foundation's one-day Innovation Forum, …