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What We Learned from Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, cities should look to New Orleans for how to build resilience to disasters.

20 years on, the lesson from Hurricane Katrina is clear - social vulnerability amplifies disaster impacts. But current changes in disaster policy show we've failed to learn that lesson, edging us closer to a system with less federal oversight or support.

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Good data, stronger Tribes | Brookings This analysis aims to identify the role that regional organizations can play in solving data challenges that exist for Native nations and Native American people.

This week our @brookings.edu team released a report on how public data fails Tribes and Native American people.

It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data.

Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇

How resilient is New Orleans today? The Current · Episode

New Orleans has made strides since Hurricae Katrina, but there's more policy change still needed to build communities ready for extreme events and resilient to other types of shocks.

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Was happy to speak with Rebecca Hersher at @npr.org about reforms to #FEMA that have been circling. FEMA was not perfect but it was heading in the right direction. Now it's being pushed off a cliff.

Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave COVID-19, as it unfolded across Australia, overlayed pre-existing relationships of precarity, particularly in the home and work. While COVID-19 presents as a national atmosphere of crisis, for many...

Interested in cultural geography? Check out my new academic pub.

Crisis or crisis ordinary? An autoethnographic exploration of the affective atmospheres of precarity during Australia’s COVID-19 first wave www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Charting the surge in Latino or Hispanic-owned businesses in the US Growth in Latino or Hispanic-owned businesses hasn’t come at the expense of other race or ethnic groups; it has been additional, and there’s still room to grow.

If the share of Latino or Hispanic-owned employer businesses equaled the share of Americans who identify as Latino or Hispanic, there would be 812,440 more businesses generating a combined $1.1 trillion in revenue and $250 billion in payroll.
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A new federal disaster resilience policy is overlooking many Black and Latino or Hispanic communities This report explores the distribution of social vulnerability and racial demographics across CDRZs.

Federal disaster policy does a poor job of risk mitigation in the most vulnerable communities. A new methodology for estimating disaster risks using social vulnerability data could help. New research from me and @atyia.bsky.social at @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication Explore climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy support at every geographic level in the United States.

Hmm, it's almost as if most Americans are worried about climate change...

Check the stats on support for climate policies. 77% of Americans support renewables! Wow. climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizatio...

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Map 1. Proportion of businesses that experienced monetary loss because of extreme weather, by metro area

Roughly 9.8% of employer businesses were financially impacted by extreme weather in 2022. In some cities like New Orleans, close to 50% were impacted. Why aren't more business leaders calling for stronger adaptation policy???
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Climate Change in the American Mind: Public Perceptions of the Health Harms of Global Warming, Fall 2024 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication This report is based on findings from a nationally representative survey – Climate Change in the American Mind – conducted jointly by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Ma...

Great work by @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social. Full report here: climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

I get that it's great to see an increase since 2014, but wild to me that still only 39% of Americans think that Americans' is being harmed by global warming!
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Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit Exposure to high temps adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.

Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit grist.org/health/extre...

Today's chart: Black-owned employer businesses have seen 5 years of strong growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9.7%. This strong growth helped support communities during the height of COVID-19 by creating jobs and bolstering economic activity. @andreperryedu.bsky.social
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Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...

"Those who remained, about 65 staffers, were integrated into DOGE’s government-slashing effort. About a third of them quit Tuesday."

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Surprised by how little coverage it's getting. Jane Fonda's speech at SAG was great! Compelling and authentic. Few people said anything meaningful at the awards, but Jane Fonda's speech made up for it.

Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good - Climate and Community Institute The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

Driving prosperity: How Black-owned businesses fueled recent economic growth

When Black-owned businesses are left on the sidelines, whole communities suffer. Check mine and @andreperryedu.bsky.social analysis below.

www.brookings.edu/articles/dri...

How extreme heat threatens Black renters, and what policymakers can do to fix it

We wrote about LIHEAP last year. It's a lifeline for the large numbers of households struggling to pay their energy bills, especially in extreme heat or cold. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills - Inside Climate News Many of the 2,000 Alabama households impacted had already seen the funds credited to their accounts and will have to pay the money back on their next bill.

Imagine waking up to find out you have to pay back a subsidy that you already benefited from. All due to an ideological battle over climate policy. insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...

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Driving prosperity: How supporting Black entrepreneurship has fueled significant growth and can sustain future momentum

Black-owned employer businesses were responsible for around half the growth in all businesses between 2017 and 2022. Supporting an inclusive business environment is good for communities and good for economic growth. Sign up for our event below to learn more.

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