by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Agriculture, Environment, Floodplain management, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Resilience, Urban Planning, Water
From time to time, I contribute to the APA Blog, which consists of a variety of news and perspectives the American Planning Association provides to its members on its own website. Recently, I composed an article about an effort APA undertook in concert with several...
by admin | Oct 22, 2016 | Adoption, Agriculture, Blogging, Books, Business, Careers, Chicago, Civil rights, Climate, Cooking
Floods generally result from regional storm systems producing intense precipitation, from fast melting of winter snows, and occasionally from the failure of protective infrastructure such as dams and levees, often as a result of pressure from such events. We tend to...
by admin | Aug 13, 2016 | Agriculture, Environment, Public health, Public policy, Science, Water
Ours has often been a profligate society in using the vast natural resources with which it was originally endowed. We’ve improved our attitudes about conservation, but we have a long way to go. Among those resources we have been prone to waste in the interest...
