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01/14/2025

The Planning Report is the insider's guide to urban planning and infrastructure in Southern California

03/04/2024

VX News spoke with Adel H Hagekhalil, PE, BCEE, WEF FELLOW, Chief Executive and General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California about how his agency is addressing the whiplash effects of climate change to continue to secure water for over 19 million people. Check out the illuminating interview below:

Submitted on March 4, 2024 - 11am Issue: Winter 2024At the forefront of shaping the water landscape in Southern California, TPR interviewed Adel Hagekhalil, the General Manager and CEO of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD). With a keen focus on resilience and collaboration, Adel introduced the c...

07/26/2023

VXNews Summer: Senator Bob Hertzberg Lessons for Next Generation; Patsaouras on Improving Transit Safety; Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Water Resiliency; & Save-the-Date

Read on: https://mailchi.mp/verdexchange/vx-news-2023-spring-update-461125?e=f39b7101bd

04/24/2023

VX News Spring Update: Financing Global Development & Combatting Climate Change: US DFC’s Jake Levine; Brightline West’s Ben Porritt On SoCal To Vegas HSR; Excerpt: 21st Century Agricultural Renaissance; & Countdown to

Read on: https://mailchi.mp/verdexchange/vx-news-2023-spring-update-461045?e=80d4a31ee9

04/07/2023

VX News Spring Update:

Asw. Laura Friedman & Hilary Norton, Milken Institute's Matt Horton; Golden State Wind's Tyler Studds; and Countdown—Register today!

Read on: https://mailchi.mp/verdexchange/vx-news-2023-spring-update-461013?e=f39b7101bd

03/24/2023

Even more speakers have been confirmed—Register today to join us for VerdeXchange VX2023 on April 30-May 3!

Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/b7d6ccdd-df4f-4b97-8f8d-c6d2abb9b04f/summary?RefId=VX23%20GA%20Home&rt=zv8ohQm-gUC7j4kUcBjEgg

See who's speaking: https://www.verdexchange.org/speakers/vx2023

03/08/2023

Not what YIMBY Developers & Investors want to hear.

The connection between economic growth and new development must be broken to reduce the climate impact of the built environment, says Kengo Kuma.

03/03/2023

VX News Winter Preview: Decarbonizing Real Estate With Lendlease Americas Head Of Sustainability Sara Neff and Seattle DOT Director Greg Spotts On Implementing Innovation

Read on: https://mailchi.mp/verdexchange/vx-news-2022preview-460981?e=f39b7101bd

11/11/2022

David Brooks NYT. “Americans are still deeply unhappy with the state of the country, but their theory of change seems to have begun to shift. Less histrionic media soap opera. Less existential politics of menace. Let’s find people who can get stuff done.”

This has been a good year for liberalism.

11/10/2022

NYT’s Friedman: ““There is still a viable group of centrist voters out there, who, when given a valid choice — not everywhere, and not always, but in some key districts — asserted themselves,” Don Baer, who was a communications director in the Clinton White House, told me. “I think there are still a lot of voters saying: ‘We want a viable center, where we can figure out how to make things happen that can really help people, even if it isn’t perfect or all at once. We don’t want every election to be existential.’”

The challenge, added Baer, “is, how do you take that sentiment to scale and make it work in Washington on a regular basis?””

Democracy survived the midterms, but we’re far from safe.