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Building NYC’s Resilience to Climate Change With Green Infrastructure
Climate change will impact New York City through more frequent heavy precipitation, sea level rise and rising temperatures. To strengthen its resilience, the city is planting trees and mini-parks, restoring wetlands and installing more permeable surfaces.
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E-Waste Recycling Day
Join the E-Waste Recycling event on January 22, 2012 from 10:00am-4:00pm at two west side locations near Central Park.
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China’s Long March Towards Better Environmental Conditions
The first independent analysis of China environmental data at the sub-national level by an international team aims to help guide the development of policies addressing environmental challenges created by China’s rapid growth.
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Critical Urban Issues Addressed in Sustainability Management Spring Courses
The Sustainability Management program’s newly developed courses for Spring 2012, The Science of Urban Ecology and Sustainable Cities, focus on innovative solutions to the sustainability challenges facing the world’s rapidly growing urban centers, from issues of land use and biodiversity to congestion management and climate adaptation policies.
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A Lasting Impression: Kumasi Stakeholders Truly Committed to Bettering their City
My lasting impression of Kumasi, Ghana, is one of incredible warmth; traveling there with the MCI team for the Kumasi Stakeholder Workshop, which was held October 11-13, I was happy to discover that the much talked-about “Ghanaian friendliness” was a generalization that proved to be true. I was also inspired by the number of Kumasi…
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Increasing Access to Health Care Using a Community-Based Approach
Community Health Workers (CHWs), health assistants or lay health workers who provide a fundamental level of health care for residents in the community in which they live, have been shown to make a tremendous contribution to public health and community development. In Kisumu, Kenya, residents of Manyatta, an informal settlement with nearly 90,000 people that…
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Unsettled by Climate Change
Climate change already laps at the edges of some communities, disrupting local economies and habitat, and forcing resettlement. But a new study notes that any efforts to offset the effects of shifting climate could lead to even more displacement and disruption for many people, particularly the poor.
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7 Billion on 10/31: The Numbers Can Be Scary
You can now watch the tape of “The World at 7 Billion: Sustaining Our Future,” the Earth Institute’s panel discussion held at Columbia Oct. 17 and featuring the presentation by Professor Joel E. Cohen on the “good and bad news” behind the growing world population.
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China’s Decade Plan for Water
For the first time, China’s No. 1 central document outlining the government’s priorities for the coming year focuses on the construction of water resources acknowledging its importance as a “strategic resource” and its necessity to the economy.
