{"id":4920,"date":"2013-07-11T22:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blogs\/green-or-grey-yes-3\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T14:27:06","slug":"green-or-grey-yes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/green-or-grey-yes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Green or Grey? Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anvaya Cove, Subic Bay, Philippines. \u00a9AECOM photo by David Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a world of polarity day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that said, striking a balance in our response to\u00a0natural disasters seems to be the most logical way to mitigate risks and\u00a0reduce devastating effects in the future.<\/p>\n<p>While some experts favor the notion (particularly in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy) that we should not attempt do anything with dykes and draining but\u00a0leave the beaches alone to replenish themselves over the generations to come, others believe that the only viable response to potential future storms is to design and construct storm surge barriers.<\/p>\n<p>In the June edition of <em>Environmental Leader<\/em>, Gary Lawrence, AECOM\u2019s chief sustainability officer, offers his perspective\u00a0on green versus grey and\u00a0an allegory from\u00a0Mayan culture. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2013\/06\/20\/finding-the-balance-between-green-and-gray\/\">Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jolene Libretto (<a href=\"mailto:jolene.libretto@aecom.com\">jolene.libretto@aecom.com<\/a>) is an editor for the Connected Cities blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anvaya Cove, Subic Bay, Philippines. \u00a9AECOM photo by David Lloyd. \u201cWe live in a world of polarity day and night, man and woman, positive and negative. Light and darkness need each other. They are a balance.\u201d With that said, striking a balance in our response to\u00a0natural disasters seems to be the most logical way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":4921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[191,218],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-connected-cities","tag-green-infrastructure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}