The Engineering With Nature® Podcast Season 2 launches March 17, and we’re pretty excited about the lineup. Host, Sarah Thorne, recently talked with Todd Bridges, Lead Engineering With Nature, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), about the upcoming season. His bottom line: “the future is right and the future is bright for EWN. It is the right direction for infrastructure and the timing is ideal.” Why now? The World Economic Forum recently estimated that that by mid-century, $100 trillion dollars will be invested in infrastructure around the world. As Todd notes, the challenge is how to deliver the most value for that investment and how EWN can expand and diversify the value produced. Join us and our guests as we discuss climate change, coastal resilience, flood risk management, and the need to adapt to a range of changing conditions in the natural world. We’ll be talking with leaders from USACE, scientists and project managers, and diverse experts from national and international agencies, public and not-for-profit organizations, and academia about their visions for engineering with nature and innovative approaches incorporating natural and nature- based solutions to address these challenges. We’ll have conversations about new partnerships and multi-disciplinary collaborations that are creating innovative infrastructure solutions. And we’ll launch two important publications -- EWN Atlas II and the International Natural and Nature-Based Features Guidelines – and talk with some of the contributors whose work is helping advance EWN through some truly remarkable solutions applying nature-based approaches to tough infrastructure challenges. Our round table conversations will demonstrate the power of collaboration and hopefully inspire our listeners to think about and engage in developing innovative solutions that will create better, more sustainable and resilient communities. JOIN THE CONVERSATION. Go to the EWN website www.engineeringwithnature.org or wherever you get your podcasts. LISTEN. SUBSCRIBE. SHARE. Related Links: EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Todd Bridges at EWN