Media Print Designers Answer Call to Fight Rising Seas San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2009 Once they would have been the stuff of science fiction: shimmering levees of water that shield cities, or laser beams slicing across water through the night… http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/14/MNAI18OFT1.DTL Ideas Showcased to Prevent SF Bay Flooding from Global Warming San Jose Mercury News - Paul Rogers, July 15, 2009 The winners included some of the Bay Area's most prestigious architectural firms, chosen from 130 entries from 18 countries. Call for Ideas on Living in a Warming World The impacts of climate change are a hot topic among scientists and environmental activists. Now the Bay Conservation and Development Commission wants to hear from another perspective: the design community. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/19/BAT914QO3U.DTL&type=newsbayarea Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands On a late fall afternoon on the western edge of the Netherlands, coastal engineer Marcel Stive stands atop a 40-foot dune. He stares out beyond the posse of wet-suit-clad surfers wading into the breakers of the North Sea. http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-01/ff_dutch_delta Rising Tide Metropolis / POV, July 15, 2009 As numerous studies have shown, the polar ice caps are disappearing at an alarming rate. Global warming or climate change, or however you choose to characterize what’s happening to our planet, will inevitably result in rising sea levels. http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20090715/rising-tide Radio + Podcasts Redesigning the Bay, KQED Radio What will global warming mean to the San Francisco Bay? QUEST explores how sea level rise could affect Bay Area wetlands, following researchers who are taking sediment cores from local marshes to discover climate history and to get a glimpse of the bay's future. http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/redesigning-the-bay Ocean's Rising, KQED Radio Host: Michael Krasny Guests: Craig Miller, senior editor of KQED's Climate Watch; Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, a non-partisan research institute on the environment and social equity; Will Travis, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R903160900 Your Wetlands The Bay Conservation and Development Commission has created the Rising Tides Competition, an international competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Our guest is Brad McCrea, Bay Development Desi?gn Analyst with BCDC. http://yourwetlands.org/podcast/ Web CBC News; The National: Environment/Science Feature Page Sea Change: Sea levels are rising faster than scientists previously predicted. Leslie MacKinnon talks to some people in California who are taking the threat to their coastlines very seriously. http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/sea_change_2.html ASLA Blog Rising Tides, an international competition for ideas on how to best respond to sea level rises in the San Francisco bay area as well as other areas, announced six award winners out of 130 entries received.  http://dirt.asla.org/2009/07/15/rising-tides-competition-announces-winning-climate-change-adaptation-ideas/   World Changing Eager to help cities adapt to climate change, more than 130 design groups from 18 countries entered the Rising Tides competition to come up with a plan to protect the inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area from predicted sea level rise. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010148.html   Fast Company How Can San Francisco Save Itself From Drowning? Six Pie-in-the-Sky Ideas The Rising Tides Competition--which sought visionary ideas to deal with climate change--has just announced the winning proposals. http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/rising-tides-competition   Design Under Sky Despite what might potentially become our best efforts to reverse climatic change it is widely suggested that sea-levels will inevitably rise displacing the millions of residents inhabiting coastal lands. http://www.designundersky.com/dus/2009/7/21/rising-tide.html   Arch Daily When driving between SFO Airport and San Francisco on the edge of the Bay Area, I have always wondered what would happen when the sea level starts to rise. http://www.archdaily.com/29258/rising-tides-competition-results/   Architechnophilia An unexpected six entrants were chosen as winners for the Rising Tides Competition - that sought to conceptualise ways of adapting to the dramatic increases in sea level expected around the San Francisco Bay area. http://architechnophilia.blogspot.com/2009/07/rising-tides-winners.html   Design Boom Blog The bayarc is a minimal, lightweight and environmentally sensitive system designed to protect the san francisco bay area from periodic high water levels associated with sea level rise. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/7153/som-the-bayarc-rising-tides-competition.html   Vector One Blog Rising Tides, an international competition for ideas on how to best respond to sea level rises in the San Francisco bay area as well as other areas, announced six award winners out of 130 entries http://vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=3222   Structure Hub Rising ocean lev els pose a threat to many places around the globe. While those at higher elevations seem less interested in these areas, the reality to those on lower elevations near the ocean might lead to loss of life, lost land and a rise in social problems only imagined. http://structurehub.com/blog/2009/07/rising-tides-competition-winners-announced-promptly-forgotten/   Media Bistro Rising Tides Competition Spreads Grand Prize Around to Multiple Winners http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/awards_competitions/rising_tides_competition_spreads_grand_prize_around_to_multiple_winners_121719.asp   ArchiCentral Recently, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) organized an ideas competition (open to any professionals, not just architects) to address the sea level rise in the Bay Area, looking for innovative and creative solutions to bring forward a vision of a future estuarine shoreline applicable to the San Francisco Bay and beyond. 130 entries from 18 countries were submitted. http://www.archicentral.com/rising-tides-competition-21861/ Press Releases Exhibit opening release.pdf Rising Tides Competition Exhibit Opens in San Francisco July 7, 2009 RT press release_51109.pdf Climate Change Competition Gains International Interest May 11, 2009 RT Press Release.pdf Call for Entries: California State Agency Launches International Ideas Competition to Address Sea Level Rise April 6, 2009 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/14/MNAI18OFT1.DTLhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/19/BAT914QO3U.DTL&type=newsbayareahttp://www.xs4all.nl/~stive51/http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/17-01/ff_dutch_deltahttp://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20090715/rising-tidehttp://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/redesigning-the-bayhttp://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R903160900http://yourwetlands.org/podcast/http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/sea_change_2.htmlhttp://dirt.asla.org/2009/07/15/rising-tides-competition-announces-winning-climate-change-adaptation-ideas/http://dirt.asla.org/2009/07/15/rising-tides-competition-announces-winning-climate-change-adaptation-ideas/http://www.risingtidescompetition.com/risingtides/Home.htmlhttp://www.risingtidescompetition.com/risingtides/Home.htmlhttp://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009181.htmlhttp://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010148.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/tag/rising-tides-competitionhttp://www.designundersky.com/dus/2009/7/21/rising-tide.htmlhttp://www.archdaily.com/29258/rising-tides-competition-results/http://architechnophilia.blogspot.com/2009/07/rising-tides-winners.htmlhttp://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/7153/som-the-bayarc-rising-tides-competition.htmlhttp://vector1media.com/vectorone/?p=3222http://structurehub.com/blog/2009/07/rising-tides-competition-winners-announced-promptly-forgotten/http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/awards_competitions/rising_tides_competition_spreads_grand_prize_around_to_multiple_winners_121719.asphttp://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/awards_competitions/rising_tides_competition_spreads_grand_prize_around_to_multiple_winners_121719.asphttp://www.archicentral.com/rising-tides-competition-21861/Media_files/Exhibit%20opening%20release.pdfMedia_files/RT%20press%20release_51109.pdfMedia_files/RT%20Press%20Release.pdfshapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2shapeimage_7_link_3shapeimage_7_link_4shapeimage_7_link_5shapeimage_7_link_6shapeimage_7_link_7shapeimage_7_link_8shapeimage_7_link_9shapeimage_7_link_10shapeimage_7_link_11shapeimage_7_link_12shapeimage_7_link_13shapeimage_7_link_14shapeimage_7_link_15shapeimage_7_link_16shapeimage_7_link_17shapeimage_7_link_18shapeimage_7_link_19shapeimage_7_link_20shapeimage_7_link_21shapeimage_7_link_22shapeimage_7_link_23shapeimage_7_link_24shapeimage_7_link_25shapeimage_7_link_26shapeimage_7_link_27

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