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December 7, 2016 by A. Adam Glenn

Urban Policy Blog Spotlights Harlem Heat Project

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The Harlem Heat Project features prominently in an essay on community-engaged urban planning for climate resilience published Dec. 7, 2016 on The Nature of Cities web site.

The essay was co-authored by AdaptNY editor and Harlem Heat Project coordinator A. Adam Glenn, with urban ecologist Zoé Hamstead of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture & Planning and Timon McPhearson, chair of the environmental studies program and director of the Urban Ecology Lab at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York City. 

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September 16, 2016 by A. Adam Glenn

VIDEO: Huff Post Covers Harlem Heat Project

The web news video show Huffington Post Rise recently profiled AdaptNY’s Harlem Heat Project in a two-and-a-half-minute video that features an interviews with participants from our community-based partner in the project.

In the clip, West Harlem resident Shaun Williams, who hosts one of our heat index sensors in his home, shares his experience of high heat. Also, Huffington Post spoke with policy expert Aurash Kharwarzad of our partner WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Kharwarzad explains the urban heat island effect and its health impacts on city residents, as well as the workings of the sensor and our participatory research project, and possible solutions to the heat challenge.

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July 12, 2016 by Kathleen Culliton

AdaptNY Project Featured on WNYC Talk Show

Adam Glenn, Sarah Gonzalez and John Keefe join Brian Lehrer to discuss extreme heat.

AdaptNY Editor Adam Glenn, left, and WNYC’s Sarah Gonzalez, center, and John Keefe, far right, join show host Brian Lehrer, in foreground, at the radio station’s studios to discuss extreme heat in New York. (Photo courtesy WNYC)

Harlem Heat Project partners stopped by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show on July 8, to discuss the news initiative and to stress that extreme heat is not just an inconvenience, but a serious public health issue that will be worsened by climate change.

“It’s a silent killer,” AdaptNY Editor Adam Glenn said to describe heat waves that take New Yorkers’ lives each year, and send hundreds to the hospital. Continue reading →

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July 12, 2016 by Kathleen Culliton

Harlem Heat Project Puts Sensors in Field

The Harlem Heat Ambassadors received training in how to use their brand new heat sensors at the WEACT offices in Harlem on Saturday. (Kathleen Culliton)

Tiny sensors were handed out at a workshop Saturday, where Harlem residents volunteered as citizen scientists to gather indoor heat measurements this summer. (Kathleen Culliton)

The Harlem Heat Project placed its first batch of its heat index sensors in the field on Saturday, when journalists, scientists and Harlem residents serving as citizen scientists gathered at the headquarters of the project’s community partner WE ACT to share insights about the problems of urban heat, and to receive training on how to use the DIY sensors. Continue reading →

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August 14, 2014 by A. Adam Glenn

Vive L’AdaptNY – Our Roadshow in Quebec!

AdaptNY founder Adam Glenn gives a talk on the project at the AEJMC journalism educators conference in Montreal, Aug. 5, 2014. Photo by @DisMediaMatters

AdaptNY founder Adam Glenn (standing right) gives a talk on the project at the AEJMC journalism educators conference in Montreal, Aug. 6, 2014. Photo by @DisMediaMatters

The AdaptNY project got some great attention again this year at the biggest annual gathering of journalism educators, held in early August in the francophone city of Montreal.

I presented twice – once about our work covering Sandy’s aftermath and once our outreach to community members – to some of the thousands of educators who are part of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, or AEJMC. Continue reading →

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June 12, 2014 by A. Adam Glenn

NY-area TV Magazine Show Spotlights AdaptNY

Public TV news magazine MetroFocus interviewed AdaptNY founder Adam Glenn.

Public TV news magazine MetroFocus interviewed AdaptNY founder Adam Glenn.

Public TV program MetroFocus this week turned its attentions to AdaptNY and founder/editor Adam Glenn, in a nine-minute package on the year-old project.

Rafael Pi Roman, Emmy-award-winning host of the WNET TV news magazine, interviewed Glenn at length about AdaptNY’s approach, which combines social media curation, primary source documentation and its own reporting, in order to create sustained coverage of and public conversation around the climate adaptation topic.

“I really started this experiment after the devastation of Sandy, when I was seeing a lot of coverage and attention to recovery, and also to how we would adapt to future extreme weather,” Glenn told Roman. “But my journalistic instincts told me that after some short time that that attention would wane. The effort was really to see if we could sustain the conversation and focus on this issue of climate adaptation and find better solutions by keeping the dialog going.”

The Metrofocus package on AdaptNY included a video report on an AdaptNY climate resilience workshop at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism school last February. The day-long workshop, run by Glenn with partners Online News Association and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media, helped local participants brainstorm ways to inspire local communities to embrace the necessity for climate adaptation.

The success of that workshop provided the inspiration for a similar half-day climate workshop that ONA recently announced will be run by Glenn as part of the organization’s annual conference in Chicago Sept. 25-27.

The Metrofocus program aired the AdaptNY segment June 11 on WLIW-21, and is scheduled to air it again today, June 12, at 8:30 p.m. ET on WNET at 10:30 p.m. ET on NJTV.

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June 11, 2014 by A. Adam Glenn

An Experiment in Climate Conversation

It was a year ago today that former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg issued the city’s roadmap for how to adapt to the future risks of climate change – a massive post-Sandy report called A Stronger, More Resilient New York.

It was also that day that we launched AdaptNY, a unique experiment to improve media coverage of and participatory decision-making in the climate adaptation process. Our aims:

Ultimately, AdaptNY’s work is to ensure New York’s stakeholders have a real and informed voice in this massive urban planning initiative (more here, here and here)

One way we started this process a year ago was by working to analyze that 438-page Bloomberg resiliency report. With the aid of sister publication City Atlas, last summer we rolled out a series of summaries that we hoped would make it possible to quickly take in its most important findings and recommendations.

But we didn’t stop there. We wanted to keep putting the city’s planning under close scrutiny so it could be better understood and improved upon. To do that, we asked your help and made it easy for you to weigh in with your views. With partner DocumentCloud, we developed an innovative way for you to make your own notes directly on the Bloomberg report. Here’s more about how our public annotation system works.

It’s easy to share your thoughts – just go to the resilience plan, log in using one of your usual social networks and let everyone know what you think!

We continue to develop new ways for you to take part in the conversation, and to let the current de Blasio administration hear your voice about this all-important issue. In the near future, for instance, we hope to introduce a new and improved version of our document annotation tool, as we continue to track reports and initiatives from City Hall, such as updates on the ailing Build It Back housing recovery program, or annual reports on resilience planning. Watch this space for more news.

Make your voice heard on the climate adaptation debate. The future of our city depends on it.

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February 21, 2014 by Meral Agish

An Introduction to Design Thinking

Design thinking, like that used in the AdaptNY workshop on Feb. 22, may be an unfamiliar term but the process behind it will be familiar to many journalists. It’s a series of steps that takes an idea to a fully realized product, kind of like taking a story from a pitch to a fully reported, finished piece.

The process, as defined by Stanford University’s d.school, involves five steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test. They have a handy guide, the Bootcamp Bootleg, that explains their approach to design thinking and offers helpful tools for each step.

Five step process of design thinking by Stanford University’s d.school (Image: d.school / Stanford University)

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February 6, 2014 by A. Adam Glenn

Workshop: Better Digital Storytelling Through Design Thinking For the Post-Sandy Era

AdaptNY is partnering with the Online News Association and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media to offer an all-day workshop Feb. 22, aiming to use the innovative techniques of design thinking to help media and communities improve how they tell stories and share information about climate resilience.

The workshop will get off the ground with a power panel of top-flight climate experts from the worlds of journalism, science, government and environmental advocacy, addressing the problems of adapting to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather.

Then throughout the day, usability experts and coaches, including from pioneering media firm Digital First, will guide participants through a process of understanding what their users need, brainstorming solutions and sharing them for feedback from other workshop attendees.

The conference is hosted by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in mid-town Manhattan, and the $10 registration fee will include meals and a closing happy hour.

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER NOW!

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