Rising Seas Summit

Jay OwenPartner Announcements and News

    The inaugural Rising Seas Summit brought together more than 170 professionals from national and local government, industry, academic institutions and environmental NGOs together to highlight the interrelationships between sea level rise, climate change and extreme events. Understanding, anticipating and adapting to water related threats is critical to national …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: New results from inside the ozone hole

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  ScienceDaily: Top Environment News New results from inside the ozone hole Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:56 PM PST Scientists have revealed the inner workings of the ozone hole that forms annually over Antarctica and found that declining chlorine in the stratosphere has not yet caused a recovery of the …

INVESTING IN HURRICANE SANDY

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions

INVESTING IN HURRICANE SANDY   By Ellie Winninghoff   Community Capital Management’s flagship fund, CRA Qualified Investment Fund (CRAIX), will dedicate $100 million of fund assets to invest in disaster recovery and redevelopment projects in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. “We have some …

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in re-growing tropical forests

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News   Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in re-growing tropical forests Posted: 05 Nov 2013 04:46 PM PST A new study of re-growing tropical forests has concluded that plant biodiversity takes longer to recover than carbon storage following major disturbances such as clearance for farming. …

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for climate change

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Commentary: We need to spend $3.6 trillion to upgrade, modernize By Ed Maurer and Eugene Cordero, April 29, 2013, 11:11 a.m. EDT SANTA CLARA, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Recently, the American Society of Civil Engineers released its latest Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, a measure of the condition, capacity, and maintenance …

Join The National Green Energy Council And A TruBuilders Inc. at the grand opening of the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center Saturday April 22, 2013

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity

Press Release April 15, 2013 9:00AM EST        The National Green Energy Council And A TruBuilders Inc. partner on the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center        The official grand opening celebration of the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center will take place at the New Jersey Storm Recovery Center …