The Octopus in the Parking Garage

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Rob Verchick is a leading climate law scholar who designed and implemented climate-resilience policies in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans, is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane University, and serves as president of the Center for Progressive Reform. Verchick is the author of four books and host of the podcast Connect the Dots.

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Rob Verchick explores what climate resilience looks like on the ground, taking the reader on a journey into the field. Engaging and accessible for nonexpert concerned citizens, this book empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

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Part I: Understanding Resilience

1. Let's Talk About the Octopus
2. Adapt or Die
3. Sprawling Brains and Rubber Arms
4. Climate and Caste
5. Believing Is Seeing
   Part II: Doing Resilience
6. Moonshot on the Bayou
7. Lights Out
8. Flash! Crack! Boom!
9. Yuccas, Gardeners, and Zookeepers
10. The Octopus's Garden
11. The Long Goodbye
12. Persist and Prevail
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index