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From Waste to Energy: How Urban Waste is Powering Our Cities

Reprogramming the City

Recent advancements in waste to energy (WtE) technologies have offered a promising solution for repurposing waste into energy, providing a sustainable and efficient means of managing waste while also generating valuable energy. million gallons of low-carbon transportation fuels (Fulcrum BioEnergy, 2021).

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. 2021 ; Gubits et al. Root Causes.

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Healthy people, healthy planet: Supporting sustainability in healthcare with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

To become more sustainable, the health sector is turning to the cloud. While sustainability in healthcare encompasses environmental sustainability, it also considers how to design a sustainable care delivery system. This will rise to 96% as Amazon drives toward being powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025.

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Season 5 Episode 12 - Energizing Sustainable Change with GSA's Data Center Optimization Initiative

GovCast

From 2012 to 2021, data center closures and optimization brought government an estimated 6.6 Data center and energy management also play a key role in sustainability targets and the Biden administration’s goal to hit net-zero emissions by 2050. billion in cost savings and avoidances.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. It is as well to remember that some of them have caused tsunamis.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

sustainable mobility. In general, people don't want schools to be bad. WRT "daycare" one rise in PreK education for 3 to 5 year olds in cities like DC and NYC is to address the dearth of quality daycare and the expense. Transit, walking, biking, car share need to be viable options. civic assets need to be available.