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Earth Day Part 1: DC isn't achieving its sustainability goals wrt waste diversion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: The Sustainable DC Plan, which came out in 2013, said the District should begin diverting 80% of its waste away from landfills and incinerators by 2032. Department of Public Works (DPW) released earlier this year, pushed the target date back eight years. A long-awaited Zero Waste DC Plan , which the D.C.

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was lucky in that the application I'm submitting had a cost category and percentage schedule outlined in a 2013 city memo. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.) Generally they are supposed to.

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

It is also a story freighted with insights about the way to conceive and prosecute systemic reform in governing and public work. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions. The emergence of Ukraine 2.0 is not only an object lesson in silver linings in the darkest of clouds. reform movement.