Flood
This type of flood is caused by rapid and excessive rainfall that raises water heights quickly
What is flash flood?
What HMA stands for
What is Hazard Mitigation Assistance?
This electric technology offers both heating and cooling
What is heat pumps?
This concept refers to farming in a responsible manner that minimizes soil, ecosystem impact, and biodiversity.
What is regenerative agriculture?
What BFE stands for
What is base floor elevation?
What BRIC stands for
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
This component of a building can be subject to efficiency measures such as insulating roofs, walls, and floors?
What is envelope?
This natural climate solution has the greatest climate mitigation potential in the US in the near term (by 2025)
What is reforestation?
What FIRM stands for
What is Flood Insurance Rate Maps?
What is the flood mitigation assistance grant program?
This “W” practice involves protecting a building and its interior from the elements, such as sunlight, precipitation, and wind, thereby reducing energy consumption and optimizing energy efficiency.
What is weatherization?
A system of trees connected by an underground infiltration structure
What is tree trenches?
Flood zone that is outside the 500‐year flood limit and is protected by a levee from 100‐year floods.
What is Zone X?
Program offers capitalization grants for states to establish revolving loan funds for hazard mitigation.
What is the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Fund Program?
This building type accounts for the largest percentage of US electricity demand at approximately 37%
What is residential building?
Type of trees important for coastal resilience
What is Mangroves trees?
The date in which Newport News entered the CRS
New York ballot proposition that made $4.2 billion available for environmental and community projects in 2022.
What is the Environmental Bond Act?
Burning fossil fuels in buildings accounts for what percent of climate emissions in the US?
What is 10%?
These two practices are being promoted by carbon markets as ways to boost carbon soil sequestration
what is cover crops and no till?