Author: Alex Diaz Eco

Long-time green-economy and business journalist, sustainability analyst and communications executive, including 14 years as reporter and editor of Caribbean Business in Puerto Rico, five years as Sustainability Director at two banks on the island, general manager of a green marketing agency, and since 2014 independent blogger, consultant, freelance writer, and now Editor & Publisher of The Resilience Journal.

by Alex Diaz Eco April 28, 2018 0

Column SDG 7: Energy Special: Puerto Rico

During our darkest moments, focus to see the light

In this second installment of the TRJ post-Maria series, we find an energy transformation that is deeper, more inevitable and must happen faster than you might think.

by Alex Diaz Eco April 21, 2018 1

Column SDG 13: Climate Action SDG 14: Below Water

It keeps creeping up on us, doesn’t it

Sea level rise is the single most daunting resilience challenge. Miami Beach is doing the deepest dive yet. So how far into the future will they go?

by Alex Diaz Eco April 14, 2018 2

Feature Psychology

‘What I know is unbearable’

Filmmaker Emmanuel Cappellin is wagering that Once You Know, you will respond to today’s greatest challenge with history’s highest calling. So, will you?

by Alex Diaz Eco April 11, 2018 1

SDG 11: Cities SDG 12: Commerce Spotlight

Filling the gaps of resilience

Climate guru Joyce Coffee on the many paths to immediate and transformative acceleration, except for one painful gap we’re just now figuring out

by Alex Diaz Eco April 4, 2018 2

SDG 13: Climate Action SDG 8: Economy Spotlight

2017, and resilience turned the corner

It was a watershed year, says ASAP’s Beth Gibbons in this exclusive and revealing interview, where she urged companies to lend their scale and the industry to think severely

by Alex Diaz Eco March 27, 2018 4

Column SDGs 1-17 Special: Puerto Rico

The future arrived 9/20. Let’s face it.

Six months after Maria, the story is not just Puerto Rico. This column kicks off a special content series on making islands resilient.

by Alex Diaz Eco March 20, 2018 0

SDG 11: Cities SDG 12: Commerce SDG 15: Land Spotlight

Indoor vertical farming must grow exponentially. Here’s how. And why.

Food demand will grow. Food supply will not. That will soon place food security center stage. City: here’s what you can do about it. But you better hurry.

by Alex Diaz Eco March 13, 2018 1

SDG 11: Cities SDG 12: Commerce SDG 9: Infrastructure

The next Smart City frontier is here

It integrates everything in a local economy to make it all resilient, not just traditional infrastructure

OUR SECTIONS ARE THE 17 UN SDGs, the new path to resilience. The stories (goals) covered so far: