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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). The bill ran in 2014 and passed that same year. Photo courtesy of WVLSC.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There is currently intense interest in the possible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of disasters. The first problem is that it uses vast, and increasing, amounts of energy, which does not help bring climate change under control, or enable the careful stewardship of the planet's resources.