Welcome back to our weekly look behind the scenes, which makes our team speak. Let us know what you think [email protected].
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Copenhagen is Mush To master future floods, with hundreds of natural -based and constructed projects for reduction in flooding either completed or underway. As Yale Environment 360 reported in a story that the editorial director of RTBC, Rebecca Worby told, the plan came for the first time after a massive storm that had flooded the Danish capital in 2011.
If the term “Sponge City” rings a bell, you may have heard it first: The contribution editor Peter Yeung wrote about RTBC Sponge cities in ChinaWhere the term was shaped until 2023.
Becca says:
A cool thing about the approach of Copenhagen: Many of the projects are social and experimental, e.g. B. collection basins that serve as skate parks and amphitheater.
Net profits
Here at RTBC we love stories about simple solutions for big problems. A great example that was shared this week with the contribution editor Geetanjali Krishna by the Gates Foundation: the modest net with low-tech mosquitoes, treated with newly developed insecticides, prevented about 13 million malaria cases From 2019 to 2022 they save an estimated 25,000 lives.
Geetanjali says:
I was often laughed at the fact that I used mosquito networks, but for me they are a fantastic alternative to using chemical repellents and pesticides during the mosquito season. In 2023, the World Health Organization recommended two treated bed nets to combat malaria. Although mine is not dealt with insecticide, the network always worked for me and after reading this report, I will sleep even better tonight!
What else do we read
🧊 A long -awaited rule to protect workers against heat stress is also moving forward under Trump – Dog wants to shared the Executive Editor by Grist
🚈 Drive with the future train line in New York City. – shared by Rebecca Worby New York Times
🖌️ The end of the lead – shared by Will Doig from Work to Work
In other news …
Geetanjali Krishna created a simple reading version – i.e. in a simplified, accessible format – of its recent history about TV bra, the Norwegian news show, which was created by and for people with disabilities.
Take a look at the original story Here and the simple reading version Here.