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Ottinger Post is a free online resource for public officials in seaside towns to share success stories, lessons learned, perspectives on any number of resiliency topics, including any of these:
- Eco-friendly structures built to withstand super storms.
- Steps to check sea rise and storm flooding.
- How resiliency measures a smart fiscal policy.
- Lowering the carbon footprint of your region.
- How green bonds reduce long-term infrastructure finance costs.
- People-centric streets, parks, and squares.
- Reducing electric grid demands during peak season.
- Roof gardens and rainwater reclamation.
- Energy efficient healthier school buildings, libraries, parks, sports facilities, admin buildings, fire and police stations.
- Justifying capital investments.
- Using bike paths and walk ways to preserve wetlands
- Solar panels, creating new good paying local jobs.
- Traffic reduction strategies
- Building design that integrates local history, culture, light, and water.
- Wifi thermostats and ductless air conditioning systems
- Walkable and cyclable towns.
- Lowering incidence of water pollution from storm flooding.
- Empowered citizens with accessible IT and open data networks.
- Smart waste disposal processes.
- Shoreline strengthening and nanotechnology, AI and satellite imagery.
Submission Guidelines.
OttingerPost invites you to submit:
● An article or editorial. ● Description of a successful program.● An excerpt from a book you are writing. ● A speech you gave in public about a resiliency related topic.
Submissions can be include news, success stories, emerging trends, research and development underway, and more. Materials should be backed up by verifiable sources.
How to make a submission.
Submit material by email to Ottinger Post.com. Include your name, title, and coastal government with which you’re affiliated along with your contact information. Please make submissions between 200 and 600 words in the body of an email, or as a MSW attachment.
Payment. All work is submitted on a volunteer basis.
Acknowledgement. We acknowledge receipt of submission within 2-4 weeks. Editors do not guarantee submissions will be used. Authors will be notified whether the article will or will not be used.
Editing. Editors reserve the right to make editorial revisions, deletions or additions which strengthen the author’s intent.
Photographs. A submission may include digital photographs in JPEG of GIF format at a minimum of 300 dpi.