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ATI Partners with Consultants to Remediate Tulare Lake Flooding

American City & Country

Here are the steps ATI took to restore the lab: Water Extraction: ATI worked with a structural engineer to develop a protocol that allowed for the extraction of up to four feet of water per 24 hours, ensuring safety and structural integrity. Recyclable metals were salvaged and recycled. Any remaining liquid was removed by sump pumps.

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Thinking of Becoming a Grant Writer? Read This First.

Peak Proposals

No, you probably didn’t—nor did you develop the project activities, design the log frame, create the budget, or recruit the proposed project staff. Through your efforts, you can provide valuable assistance to them by securing funding for their projects. As the grant writer, you’re in a vulnerable spot. Now let’s turn to the positives.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For either a BID or a conservancy extra services are likely to include security, sanitation, capital improvements, and marketing and economic development activities. New York City has since developed many such groups for parks and and business districts. and they collect special monies to pay for it.

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5 Big Ideas to Address the Climate Crisis and Inequality in Cities

The City Fix

City life can be deeply unfair. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how differently the rich and poor are able to cope with lockdowns, from ability to work from home to access to green space. The pandemic’s. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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The Power of Multistakeholder Collaboration in Creating More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

The City Fix

The latest UN climate conference, COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, was a significant one for cities in many respects. Delegates established a new fund to help vulnerable countries deal with loss and damages from climate impacts, and some of.

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How Improved Housing in Under-Served Communities Can Strengthen Climate Resilience

The City Fix

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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How Rapid Urbanization in Africa Compounds Water Challenges

The City Fix

Africa’s population is growing faster than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to more than double by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City shows, is combining with climate.