Press
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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


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