Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sustainable Development Goal
A waste management firm in Nova Scotia is giving discarded single-use items new life as synthetic timbers, rails and fence posts. Source: World Economic Forum | Agenda | feed
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Released today at the flagship GLOBE conference in Vancouver, findings of a new report “The Climate Decade: Ten Years to Deliver the Paris Agreement” by GlobeScan and SustainAbility, show that experts...
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By: Sasha Wedekind Heliogen, a clean energy startup, recently made a promising step toward addressing embodied carbon in cement, steel, and other building materials. The company announced it can harness solar power to...
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The World Ocean Summit will bring together a global group of policymakers, business and civil society leaders, investors, scientists and entrepreneurs to debate and develop new ideas on how to decouple economic growth...
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CLIMATE2020 is a 100% carbon neutral online climate conference organized by the Research and Transfer Centre Sustainability and Climate Impact Management (FTZ-NK) of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in...
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When Berkeley, Calif., became the first city in the country to ban natural gas hookups in new construction last July, no one knew the effects would ripple out so far...
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As calls to include local voices grow, here’s what we learned We’re hearing more and more from aid agencies and international NGOs about supporting ‘locals’ and ‘locally led’ approaches. It...
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Right across from Atholton High School in Columbia, Maryland, sits a garden roughly a third of an acre with rows of vegetable beds and a newly added pond to encourage...
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With climate change threatening food supply in Senegal, these farmers are turning to agroecology, in the form of planting trees on farms, diversifying crops and their rotation and using organic...
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Intensive farming has proven to have negative effects on the environment, but there are ways it can be more sustainable. Source: World Economic Forum | Agenda | feed
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