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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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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

On June 21, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ( ASDI ) Global Hackathon, part of a new collaboration with the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence, under the auspices of UNESCO. ASDI data catalog offers open and no cost data in the cloud.

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How AWS can enable the Government of Canada’s 2023-2026 Data Strategy

AWS Public Sector Blog

Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy. A new $100,000 AWS community grant fund launched in 2023 supports Calgary sustainability initiatives. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 times more energy efficient than traditional data centers.