Stopping climate change is the top environmental priority, but it’s too late to focus exclusively on prevention. From heat waves to hurricanes, communities are already experiencing the extreme weather impacts of our changing climate. Around the world, civic leaders are working to make their communities more resilient in the face of climate change and increasingly common environmental disasters. Resilience planning […]
When you own a house, you want to protect your investment, and your personal safety is important whether you own your own home or not. Many homeowners missed the opportunity to buy a disaster-resilient home; when you’re buying a house, you think about a lot of things, but disaster resilience is not usually one of them. But there are steps […]
When you’re buying a house it’s hard to ignore highly visible elements like paint and appliances, but easy to overlook factors that could affect your own safety. That’s why we have home inspections to check the plumbing and wiring before we buy. But there’s one thing even many inspectors usually overlook – disaster resilience. With climate change making disasters of […]