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The Harford County Artistic Destination Map

In September 2018, Greg Pizzuto, Director of Tourism for Harford County, Maryland gave a presentation of the countyâ€™s tourism information as shown on their website: https://visitharford.com. The county is exploring tourism-related initiatives but also seeking additional help in innovative ideas and methods to present areas of interest to the public. Through the Partnership for Action […]

Obstacles to Community Participation in Reporting Pest-Related Tree Damage

For our Environmental Science and Policy Capstone project at the University of Maryland, we were assigned a Montgomery County Parks project. The goals of this capstone project were to inspire and increase community involvement to report invasive insect and disease pests and to inform residents about invasive tree pests, particularly educating residents on how to […]

Prince George’s County Food Scraps Composting Pilot Program

This projectâ€™s goal was to construct innovative ways to promote composting through the Prince Georgeâ€™s County Composting Pilot Program, working with the Countyâ€™s project manager Denice Curry. Throughout this semester, we split the investigations into four different Design Projects. In these Design Projects, we cultivated our interviewing skills, learning how to note details and analyze […]

Playing Field Evaluations for M-NCPPC

Students in PLSC402 worked with Prince Georgeâ€™s County Department of Parks and Recreation to assist the department in improving the maintenance practices on some of their sports fields to provide safe, agronomically sound play areas for county residents and amateur sports teams. Students provided assistance in creating a â€œturf inventoryâ€ on the countyâ€™s recreational sports […]

Sullivan County Board of Tourism Strategic Recommendations

The Sullivan County Tourism Commission set forth the objective to identify strategies for increasing tourism year-round in Sullivan County and Sullivan. The BUS401 course students were placed in three groups and set to provide end-deliverables of these strategies. The demographics of the population underscored some important populations to target with identified strategies of surveying and […]

Civic Center Microgrid Feasibility Study

Energy is a major operating cost for local governments. City of National City has taken many steps to reduce energy usage in its facilities implementing energy efficiency and conservation. The City is now considering the implementation of a microgrid, which is a renewable resource generator that empowers a geographic area to use its own electricity […]

Lemon Grove Climate Action Planning: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change in Lemon Grove, CA

Recent satellite and ground-based data have indicated that Earth’s climate is changing at an alarmingly fast rate as the mean global temperature continues to rise. This effect is visible around the world and is already beginning to threaten both society and the environment (Kitchen, 2014). Our failure to limit the emissions of heat-trapping green-house gases […]

Future growth of organic solar cells in the building integrated photovoltaic market

The World heavily relies on using coal, natural gases and oil for its energy; the global economy is strongly dependent on nonrenewable fossil fuelsas an energy source. These fuels are a finite source of energy that will eventually decrease, becometoo costly and largely play a damaging role to the environment.Looking for a better permanent solution, […]

Marina Tidelands: Modernization & Re-innovation

This report represents a semester of work by nine students of San Diego State University. Objectives included: 1. Determining the potential for non-industrial uses for portions of National City’s Marina District. 2. Identifying the most likely areas for conversion from industrial use. 3. Projecting those parcels’ best use. 4. Creating a written report and making […]

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