Planet Texas 2050 invites you to a semester-long Resilience Roundtable panel discussion series featuring leaders across the academic, non-profit, government, advocacy, and commercial sectors. Roundtables will include 2-3 speakers and a moderator from the Planet Texas 2050 leadership team and will be organized around topic areas drawn from...
How do artists and scientists think about systems, interconnectedness, and networks in similar and different ways? How can artists and scientists collaborate to increase the visibility of ecological systems? The panelists in Making in Systems visualize, translate, and study systems and networks through living sculpture, recycled materials,...
Join Planet Texas 2050 and The Drag Audio Production House to celebrate the release of “Planet Texas,” a five-episode podcast series exploring climate change solutions in Texas. Everything’s bigger in Texas…including the natural disasters. Texans face fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts, freezes, tornadoes and more – and the thing making these big...
In 2016, the City of New Orleans received $141 million from the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s National Disaster Resilience Competition Grant for the Gentilly Resilience District – a combination of investments and infrastructure projects in the Gentilly neighborhood designed to reduce flood risk,...
There is approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) of cryptocurrency load capacity within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). As of mid-2022, ERCOT had 33 GW of cryptocurrency mining in its interconnection queue. The potential increase in power demand was so high that ERCOT established a...
Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium brings together university faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation, and equitable and just transition strategies. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange, Resilience Research in Action...
Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium brings together university faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation, and equitable and just transition strategies. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange, Resilience Research in Action...
Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium brings together university faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation, and equitable and just transition strategies. Through multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange, Resilience Research in Action...
Just as the impacts of climate change vary geographically, so do our conversations and the language we choose to use around climate disasters. This event encourages us to consider how we discuss land, water, nonhuman life, colonialism, the changes impacting each of us, and how...
One would be hard-pressed to find someone to disagree with the precept that water is essential to all facets of life. However, beyond that generality, things tend to get fuzzy. How water is procured and delivered to our homes, fields, and businesses feels obscure and...
