As one of the fastest-growing cities in Arizona, the City of Peoria and its municipal services strive to be at the forefront of providing excellent care to its residents, and Peoria’s Fire-Medical Department is no exception. As one of the few agencies to be accredited by the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Inc. (CPSE), Peoria’s […]
Sustainable Development Goal: 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
Water Policy Strategy
As a desert community, water is a precious resource for the City of Peoria. The City has consistently shown it is a forward-thinking community through its sustainability planning efforts. Peoria’s general planning document, PlanPeoriaAZ 2040, outlines the City’s commitment to ensuring the best quality of living for Peoria residents through the Livability Initiatives. As part […]
Tiered Water Rates Study
As a desert community, water is a precious resource for the City of Peoria. The City has consistently shown it is a forward-thinking community through its sustainability planning efforts. Peoria’s general planning document, PlanPeoriaAZ 2040, outlines the City’s commitment to ensuring the best quality of living for Peoria residents through the Livability Initiatives. As part […]
Fine Glass Recycling Assessment
Glass is a versatile material that offers innumerable applications in many areas. One widely used application is to store food and beverages. Besides being impervious to foreign objects, it is an inert material and provides practically infinite recycling potential. It is considered easy to recycle glass bottles and jars by crushing them to an appropriate […]
Eliminating Single Use Plastics in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin
Door County is a peninsula surrounded by Lake Michigan, one of the most essentialbodies of water in the United States. Plastic and styrofoam pollution has been an increasingproblem over the past few decades. It is imperative for coastal municipalities to advocate for thehealth of the Great Lakes, and this can be accomplished in part through […]
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Zero Waste Symposium
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS) Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has collaborated with Penang Green Council (PGC) to organise a symposium on zero waste to enhance students’ and community’s understanding on zero waste. The symposium was successfully organised on 13th November 2021 via online platform at Facebook@usmcgss. CGSS USM and PGC have invited a few […]
Waste to Wealth Workshop
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS) Universiti Sains Malaysia has collaborated with Penang Green Council (PGC) to organise a workshop on Waste to Wealth to increase community knowledge and awareness on waste management and train the community to practice waste management at home and in daily life. With the guidance from CGSS and PGC, this […]
Composting Workshop
The workshop was organised by the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS) Universiti Sains Malaysia and Penang Green Council (PGC) on 9th January 2022. The workshop was fully conducted by the students under existing courses (Public Sector Economics and Tourism Economics). The students have worked together with the Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) to demonstrate […]
Segregate & Recycle Your Waste!
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS) Universiti Sains Malaysia has collaborated with Penang Green Council (PGC) to organise Segregate and Recycle Your Waste! program. This program was carried out at Kampung Perlis, Balik Pulau, Penang on 15th January 2022. The program was run by students from university courses. The main purposes of this program are […]
Be a Community Recycling Hero!
This program was organised by the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS) Universiti Sains Malaysia and Penang Green Council (PGC) on 15th January 2022 at Kampung Perlis Balik Pulau, Penang. This program was successfully run by the students under university courses (Public Sector Economics and Tourism Economics). In order to meet the program needs, the […]