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‘Adapt, We May’ – The Chelsea Way: Regional Resilience and America’s Coastal Cities

July 13, 2014 By Dave Hampton

Summer is the season for symposia, conferences, workshops, and the like.

The mind and body rebel a bit at being kept indoors, especially on fine days, and especially at those events ostensibly about the environment, but held largely apart from, or in spite of it. Attendees fight to stay awake, praying for that next coffee break near overlooked, empty bathrooms, huddled in highly air-conditioned rooms, optimally suited for viewing digital projections, eating lunches out of boxes which might or might not be recycled, depending upon how lucky one might be.

But, occasionally, these brief periods of sensory deprivation are worth it.

Even more rarely, they might very well be essential.

MIT Sea Grant’s Climate Change Symposium: Sustaining Coastal Cities, held June 16-18, 2014 in Cambridge, MA, was just one of these occasions.Continue Reading ‘Adapt, We May’ – The Chelsea Way: Regional Resilience and America’s Coastal Cities

Filed Under: Boston, Chicago, Ecology, Environment, Feature Posts, Professional Development Tagged With: Boston, Chelsea, climate change, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Gateway City, green infrastructure, Harvard GSD, infrastructure, Massachusetts, resilience, resilient, sustainable, urban planning

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