houston climate houser
@zoyamiddleton.bsky.social
At home in the 🌏 and Houston.
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience @ucsusa.bsky.social
Friend and board member @weststreetrecovery
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Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience @ucsusa.bsky.social
Friend and board member @weststreetrecovery
Posts/likes are mine alone.
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Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program.
Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!
Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!
July 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Join us for an urgent LIVE conversation about the impacts of the recent Guadalupe River flooding and “After Allen Field”, Amal Ahmed’s deep dive into Harris County, Texas’s first mandatory buyout program.
Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!
Register at bit.ly/AfterAllenField and submit your questions!
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See more of the Revolving Door Project's work on the escalating and deeply intertwined climate-insurance-housing crisis at the link below:
therevolvingdoorproject.org/home-insuran...
therevolvingdoorproject.org/home-insuran...
Illuminating the Home Insurance Crisis | Revolving Door Project
A collection of RDP's work trying to shed light on the deeply intertwined crises of fossil fuel-driven climate change, rising insurance premiums and declining coverage, and housing injustice.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
See more of the Revolving Door Project's work on the escalating and deeply intertwined climate-insurance-housing crisis at the link below:
therevolvingdoorproject.org/home-insuran...
therevolvingdoorproject.org/home-insuran...
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As @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @carlyfabian.bsky.social said: "This data is a first step toward monitoring the crisis, identifying vulnerable communities, & informing urgent policy interventions."
www.citizen.org/news/maps-re...
www.citizen.org/news/maps-re...
Maps Reveal Nationwide Impacts of Climate-Driven Insurance Crisis - Public Citizen
This data is a first step toward monitoring the crisis, identifying vulnerable communities, and informing urgent policy interventions...
www.citizen.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As @publiccitizen.bsky.social's @carlyfabian.bsky.social said: "This data is a first step toward monitoring the crisis, identifying vulnerable communities, & informing urgent policy interventions."
www.citizen.org/news/maps-re...
www.citizen.org/news/maps-re...
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"Our hope is for this resource to be generative—to prompt further questions, research and analysis, on-the-ground organizing, local op-eds, and investigative journalism," said our @kennystancil.bsky.social.
therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-the-...
therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-the-...
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis | Revolving Door Project
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Our hope is for this resource to be generative—to prompt further questions, research and analysis, on-the-ground organizing, local op-eds, and investigative journalism," said our @kennystancil.bsky.social.
therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-the-...
therevolvingdoorproject.org/mapping-the-...
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NEW: "Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis" contains a series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social.
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A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social.
🧵 ⬇️
Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis | Revolving Door Project
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW: "Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis" contains a series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social.
🧵 ⬇️
A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social.
🧵 ⬇️
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"These institutions...are more than just research facilities."
Today, during the second event in our DOGE series, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee described the impact of DOGE's cuts on American research institutions. Watch the full event: www.americanprogress.org/events/resea...
Today, during the second event in our DOGE series, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee described the impact of DOGE's cuts on American research institutions. Watch the full event: www.americanprogress.org/events/resea...
April 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"These institutions...are more than just research facilities."
Today, during the second event in our DOGE series, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee described the impact of DOGE's cuts on American research institutions. Watch the full event: www.americanprogress.org/events/resea...
Today, during the second event in our DOGE series, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee described the impact of DOGE's cuts on American research institutions. Watch the full event: www.americanprogress.org/events/resea...
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Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
March 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.
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In other FEMA news, members of Congress re-introduced the bipartisan FEMA Independence Act yesterday, which would remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and make it a cabinet-level independent agency. Here's the full text: d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/moskowitz.ho...
March 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In other FEMA news, members of Congress re-introduced the bipartisan FEMA Independence Act yesterday, which would remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security and make it a cabinet-level independent agency. Here's the full text: d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/moskowitz.ho...
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i'm a coastal elite (gulf coast)
March 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
i'm a coastal elite (gulf coast)
I wrote about disaster recovery in the age of outlandish executive orders. If you live in a city, state, or county that was allocated CDBG-DR, the blog contains a link to a spreadsheet that can help you find the draft plan for your community.
blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleto...
blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleto...
My City Got Disaster Recovery Money, Now What?
Recent executive orders are complicating an already complex process.
blog.ucs.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I wrote about disaster recovery in the age of outlandish executive orders. If you live in a city, state, or county that was allocated CDBG-DR, the blog contains a link to a spreadsheet that can help you find the draft plan for your community.
blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleto...
blog.ucs.org/zoe-middleto...
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This is a good article that does a nice job of explaining what local dispatch centers do. It's unfortunate that it had to be written under these circumstances.
There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/
There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/
In case you missed it yesterday: Elon Musk's DOGE list of lease terminations contains an Albuquerque office that houses a "critical" dispatch center that handles wildfire emergencies, as drought and high winds this spring leave the state increasingly at-risk for wildfires.
Albuquerque center housing ‘critical’ wildfire dispatch on DOGE termination list as fire risk grows • Source New Mexico
The center is "critical during emergencies where homes, lives and natural resources are at risk from wildfire," according to a NM forestry spokesperson.
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is a good article that does a nice job of explaining what local dispatch centers do. It's unfortunate that it had to be written under these circumstances.
There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/
There's a lot of specialized equipment and tech in dispatch centers that are not easily moved or replaced. 1/
my most recent blog for UCS considers the ripple effects of FEMA and HUD staff reductions on local climate planning and municipal bond markets ⬇️
“…The Trump administration’s dismantling of federal agencies and programs responsible for disaster response puts Americans everywhere at extraordinary risk and will hamper state and local government’s ability to prepare for and recover from disasters.”
FEMA and HUD Firings: the Newest Tactic to Politicize Disaster Aid
President Trump's proposed cuts to FEMA and HUD will further harm communities already struggling to recover from disasters.
blog.ucsusa.org
March 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
my most recent blog for UCS considers the ripple effects of FEMA and HUD staff reductions on local climate planning and municipal bond markets ⬇️