{"id":6546,"date":"2025-08-15T16:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=6546"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:25:54","slug":"black-ingersoll-city-of-boston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/black-ingersoll-city-of-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Boston: Climate Resilience Startup Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-4500 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/flannery-black-ingersoll\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_5829-Flannery-Black-Ingersoll-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Flannery Black Ingersoll headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_5829-Flannery-Black-Ingersoll-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2022\/09\/IMG_5829-Flannery-Black-Ingersoll-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Flannery Black-Ingersoll, PhD<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/departments\/emerging-technology\/emerging-climate-tech-city\">City of Boston Office of Emerging Technology<\/a>, Summer 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary:\u00a0 <\/strong>The City of Boston is vulnerable to many hazards of climate change along its coastline and within its urban infrastructure. Innovative technology startups are interested in addressing some of these hazards by piloting new technologies for climate change resilience. These technologies can support city efforts to adapt to hazards of climate change and\/or decrease contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. Flannery worked with the City of Boston\u2019s Office of Emerging Technology on their development of a Climate Technology Lab. She reviewed and categorized the relevance of prospective startups to urban climate change-related concerns. One key challenge that emerged for Boston was navigating the city\u2019s procurement policies. Flannery conducted a review of procurement structures to outline how changes to Boston\u2019s current policy might better support work with new technologies. For example, a sustainable procurement policy might allow Boston to partner with a startup that produces low-carbon cement in a public building project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Deliverable:<\/strong> Internal report of key findings on prospective startups (research on sustainable procurement, breakdown of startups by climate change resilience category, and insights on needs for specific city offices and departments)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6547\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2025\/08\/Categories-of-Prospective-Start-Ups-636x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"339\" class=\" wp-image-6547\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Categories of prospective climate technology start-ups<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6549\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2025\/08\/Internal-Report-1-616x636.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"515\" class=\" wp-image-6549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/08\/Internal-Report-1-616x636.png 616w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/08\/Internal-Report-1-768x793.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/08\/Internal-Report-1.png 916w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flannery&#8217;s internal report of key findings for the creation of a sustainable Climate Technology Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Flannery&#8217;s URBAN Internship Lightning Talk <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HSRgdAJmOEg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: City of Boston Office of Emerging Technology, Summer 2025 Project Summary:\u00a0 The City of Boston is vulnerable to many hazards of climate change along its coastline and within its urban infrastructure. Innovative technology startups are interested in addressing some of these hazards by piloting new technologies for climate change resilience. These technologies can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24039,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6546\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}