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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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Winter snow clearance in the Walking City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Where have CLTs been established?

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Labor markets are still tight. It’s a long-term issue, and not just in the US

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

The countries that have grown their overall economies fastest since 2010 did so primarily by hiring more workers. Rather, it reflects a sustained long-term trend driven by aging workforces and increased labor demand, write Anu Madgavkar and Olivia White in Barron's. But today, there aren't many workers in reserve.

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A Lime electric bicycle front wheel with the spokes iced up, Salt Lake City | Snow clearance issues and sustainable mobility

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In past years, in November or December, I usually write a piece about "maintenance of way" issues concerning pedestrians, transit riders, and bicyclists in the winter. -- " Snow, winter and the "Sustainable Mobility City" ," 2019 I started this in 2010, although during the winter storms of February, when I was writing a bicycle and pedestrian plan (..)

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Divided by Design? Urban Renewal’s Long-term Impact on Poverty and Income by Race

The Lowe Down

I test this idea using Collins and Shester’s methodology to analyze economic outcomes from three decades (1990, 2000, 2010) disaggregated by race (Black or White). In 2010, White incomes continued to grow (0.172 percentage points), while the effect on the Black populations diminished to 0.0598 percentage points.

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Innovating, investing, and improving: AWS Summit New Delhi and AWS Summit Singapore 2022 keynote recaps

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since the launch of the Singapore Region in 2010, AWS has invested over $6.51 AWS is committed to helping cities across the ASEAN enable more resilient, liveable, and sustainable smart cities. billion US dollars in local infrastructure,” said Elsie. Helping the public sector deliver modernized citizen services. “As