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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. Generally they are supposed to.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Department of Public Works (DPW) released earlier this year, pushed the target date back eight years. I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). Why so long, so obtuse, about developing a yard waste diversion program? A long-awaited Zero Waste DC Plan , which the D.C.

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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

How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Origins of sustainable public procurement The roots of sustainable public procurement have been traced to the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development. Specifically, SDG 12.7