Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities, said it’s going to take “integrated solutions” to help address the 21st century challenges many cities face.
“If you design a more walkable, more bikeable city, you both drop your carbon footprint but you also make your population healthier,” Berkowitz told HuffPost Live at Davos.
100 Resilient Cities is a $100 million commitment by The Rockefeller Foundation to build urban resilience worldwide. The effort aims to help cities that have experienced “acute shocks” like hurricanes, tornados or terrorism, and also cities that have “chronic stresses” like food, water and energy shortages.
Berkowitz said cities often recover after natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy in an inefficient way, and 100 Resilient Cities hopes to develop solutions that offer a better place to live while maintaining the natural environment.
“The instinct is to build back as it was, and really, Resilient’s thinking leads you to build back better and build back smarter,” Berkowitz said.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Arianna, Hugh Evans and Jordan Hewson on HuffPost Live at Davos
Hugh Evans and Jordan Hewson from Global Citizen, along with Arianna, sat down on HuffPost Live at Davos to share how HuffPost and Global Citizen are working together to help end global poverty.
Hewson, the Global Citizen Editor, announced a new feature that will allow HuffPost readers to take action to help eliminate issues like global poverty. After reading articles on HuffPost, readers can sign petitions encouraging action without ever leaving the site.
“We in the media have done a terrible job at telling the stories of what is working,” Arianna said.
“We’re committed, as you know, to putting a lot of energy, recourses into also covering what is working,” Arianna added.
Arianna said there’s nothing “journalistically incorrect” with encouraging people to take action.
New America President and CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to HuffPost Live about her new blog on the on-demand economy.
Desmond-Hellmann, who sits on the board of directors at Facebook, said more must be done to include women in leadership roles.
“In corporate America and in Silicon Valley we have a lot of work to do for women to feel included, to feel like they have a seat at the table, and to have the kind of leadership roles that I’ve experienced.”
