Thomas G. Bourgeois, deputy director of Pace University’s Energy and Climate Center, provided this response for the Dot Earth blog when asked, after the Hurricane Sandy disaster, how distributed generation of electricity and heat could cut disaster impacts and mesh with efforts to develop renewable energy sources in cities. Related Dot Earth post: http://nyti.ms/U5blIP Pace Energy and Climate Center: http://www.law.pace.edu/energy-and-climate-center