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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

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Lifts, tramways, and gondolas, oh my!

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

a proposal in Baltimore many years ago (" Baltimore gondola transit "plan" a waste of time? ," 2007 blog entry, " Harborplace plans (maybe) include aerial cable cars ," Baltimore Banner, 2023) than for "real" transportation reasons. . == Originally, I was "against" gondolas, mostly because they were proposed more for scenic tourism (e.g.,

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Technology: What, When and How to Adopt

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In 2007, Jim was appointed General Manager of the Los Angeles Emergency Management Department, where he led a successful departmental reorganization and restructuring of Los Angeles’ emergency management protocols and processes. The podcast guest is Jim Featherstone , He is a native of Washington D.C.

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GRANTEGY: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance Series

Grant Consulting Services, LLC

The Importance of Strategy A good strategy provides a clear roadmap, consisting of a set of guiding principles or rules, that defines the actions people in the business should take (and not take) and the things they should prioritize (and not prioritize) to achieve desired goals (Watkins, 2007). 2007, September 10). 2016, February 24).

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. At that time, they designated 5 areas, invested a lot in urban design, public art, and sustainable mobility connections between the districts and Downtown. The state later developed its own program.

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Royal Bank of Canada report, 26% of Canadian households can't afford to buy a house

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sustained high interest rates in the U.S. There were nearly 103 million people living in rental housing in 2022, according to an analysis by the nonprofit trade organization the National Multifamily Housing Council, a 15% increase from 2007.

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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together. Photo: Universidad Católica de Chile. Not enough new buses had arrived.