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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

Is separate from the annual appropriations process and is connected, in that primary funding source is the General Fund, but supplemented by other tax sources (special sales taxes usually), impact fees on new development, and transportation related funding. 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

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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.