Press 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. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/14/MNAI18OFT1.DTL 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 Radio 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 Blog 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 Podcast 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 Design Analyst with BCDC. http://yourwetlands.org/podcast/ 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/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.kqed.org/quest/radio/redesigning-the-bayhttp://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R903160900http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/environmentscience/sea_change_2.htmlhttp://yourwetlands.org/podcast/Press_files/Exhibit%20opening%20release.pdfPress_files/RT%20press%20release_51109.pdfPress_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_11