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Posts by The Urban Conservancy

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‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-base...

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This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why | CNN Summer has increasingly become a season marked by deadly disasters, underscoring the escalating volatility of our warming world.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Rapid Response Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. General Russell Honore, Pastor Gregory Manning, and Vickie Boothe (Environmental Research Scientist, CDC/EPA retired) will present Ms. Boothe’s research documenting 27 recent major chemical accidents with widespread public exposure, and the lack of correct public information which followed. Our discussion will focus on what steps are needed to educate and protect the public to ensure safe and healthy children and families. It is imperative that we all educate ourselves as to the impact of these toxic releases which happen all too frequently so, please join our Rapid Response meeting on April 10 at 6 PM.

Join Together LA for “Toxic Accidents and Public Misinformation” 4/10 @ 6 PM CDT. Russell Honore, Greg Manning & Vickie Boothe present research documenting 27 recent major chemical accidents w/widespread public exposure followed by inaccurate public information. Register at togetherla.org/april10

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John M. Barry: Shane Guidry's plans to change the levee boards are a bad idea. Here's why. Guest column: Shane Guidry's plans to change the levee boards are a bad idea. Here's why.

Katrina survivors should be alarmed & outraged at the dismantling of the reformed Levee Board by Gov. Landry and his ally Shane Guidry. John Barry explains why in his 3/21 op-ed: www.nola.com/opinions/gue...

Concerned? Call the governor's office to voice your objections. 225-342-0991

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“66% of Parisians support greening and pedestrianizing 500 new streets in all neighborhoods!

We continue to work to improve the quality of life in Paris and strengthen democracy.”

— Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social

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$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that filter pollution from the big ships traveling the nearby Mississippi River an...

Gutting to see trees (trees!!!)—and by extension many of our partners reforesting New Orleans— politicized, villified, and defunded. We’re hot, we flood, trees help. It’s that simple. www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world...

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#FYIFriday! Davida's new driveway removed 643 sq ft of concrete and holds 3345 gallons of stormwater in each rain. She replaced her lawn with a gorgeous oasis of native plants.

Thanks for showing us what's possible!

#fyifriday #greeninfrastructure #permeabledriveway #permeablepatio #nativeplants

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#FYIFriday! Want to connect with nature and do some community service in New Orleans? Meet up at the Native Plant Trail in City Park on Fridays, 9-11 am & every 2nd Wednesday at the Keller Library, 3-5 pm. Hit us up for more info!

#frontyardinitiative #nativeplants #raingardens #volunteer

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