We sat down with Cynthia Koehler, the Executive Director of the WaterNow Alliance, a Coalition partner, about water policy, the state of the environment, and how the Coalition can help.
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A Q+A with Paul Lanning, founder of Lightbox Energy, an energy and sustainability project management firm, about the state of the environment, the role of the Coalition, and what we can do to help.
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A Q+A with Vivian Loftness, Co-Chair of SSC’s Steering Committee and former Head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, about the state of the environment, the role of the Coalition, and what we can do to help.
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A Q+A with Frank Loy, Chair of the Coalition's Board of Directors, and former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, on the Coalition, the state of the environment, and what we can do to help.
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The term acts as a useful conceptual umbrella and allows for a diverse range of climate change mitigation strategies to be considered together as a unified solution. In turn, cities can, for the first time, make surface decisions that reflect their full interests, including temperature, risk, and livability.
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Recent heat waves and fires are only the beginning of climate change’s many maladies. With lives and livelihoods at risk, city, state, and national policy-makers can no longer afford to overlook smart surfaces as a necessary change to their surface status quo.
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Smart Surfaces are not only essential to keep our cities livable—they are also cost-effective. The Smart Surfaces Coalition’s purpose is to enable and motivate cities to switch to smart surfaces by building and providing analytic tools, support, and education to all cities and towns.
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