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Using the cloud to advance collaborative water stewardship

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network, coordinated by the Lake Winnipeg Foundation (LWF) , mobilizes volunteer water samplers across Manitoba in order to measure phosphorus concentration – the nutrient responsible for blue-green algal blooms on Lake Winnipeg. Learn more about AWS Water Stewardship.

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To Prevent Illegal Dumping, You Have to Know the Scale of the Problem

Center for Community Progress

Make sure data is spatially referenced with GPS coordinates. Involving residents and community groups already involved in vacant land stewardship helps lower costs and strengthens neighborhood engagement. Integrate the illegal dumping inventory into existing property condition or code violation databases.

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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

We spoke with Taylor Bennett , Executive Director of the West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation (WVLSC). However, because the person responsible for managing the land bank also works in these other areas, they bring that breadth of expertise to the table and can more efficiently coordinate with municipal and county government departments.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Obviously the world needs to fight for sustainability, good stewardship of resources, equity, fairness and peaceful cooperation. Therein lies a huge challenge for all of us. On the response front, civil protection everywhere needs to be an order of magnitude bigger and more potent than it is now.

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Land Banks and Community Land Trusts: Emerging Partners for a Resilient and Equitable Recovery

Center for Community Progress

Although there are few examples of land banks and CLTs coordinating effectively and sustainedly, more communities are recognizing the value of a strategic partnership, and that one may be a solution to the other’s challenges. Here are five of the most common actions taken in communities successfully building land bank and CLT partnerships: 1.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

IRCAI’s mission is to coordinate, fund, and accelerate work that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with artificial intelligence (AI). Second runner-up: Indigenous Stewardship and Tech to Reduce Wildfires. They use Sentinel 2 satellites L2A data to calculate the Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI).

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Strengthening senior executive leadership is critical to ensuring the continuity of government

Partnership for Public Service

While the model is aligned to the Executive Core Qualifications in many ways, it emphasizes the need for leaders to be aware of their values and motivations , and further details the core values of public service: Stewardship of Public Trust and Commitment to Public Good.