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Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

AWS Public Sector Blog

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities. Customer asset locations (in this example, a sample of U.S.

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Washington State Emergency Management

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

During his tenure, the State has successfully supported the response to and recovery from numerous major disasters to include the COVID Pandemic, the SR 530 Oso Landslide, the record-setting wildfire seasons of 2014 and 2015, and a host of devastating weather events.

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

While the motivation behind all three is similar—to collect sources of revenue to support programs and core operations—the resources you need and the tasks involved are different for each one. a specific program or general operating expenses). for general operating expenses? This is not the case. Do you need money now.or

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access.