Disaster-proofing critical facilities of Outagamie County

Outagamie County is currently in the process of updating their five-year hazard mitigation plan from 2017. In the past five years, both the flood risk and critical facilities in Outagamie County have changed. While the current hazard mitigation plan contains a lot of technical information regarding the hazards, critical facilities, and mitigation efforts from 2017 […]

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Passive Rainwater Harvesting Research

As a sprawling metro region, the City of Phoenix is a desert city with warm temperatures year-round. As an alternative to turf lawns, the City prioritizes the use of xeriscaping as a sustainable alternative to typical residential landscaping. In the interest of conserving water, the City promotes low water-use landscaping, or xeriscaping. After the successful […]

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Roadmap for Regional Collaboration

A municipal Public Works Department is critical to providing essential community services, ensuring a high quality of life for its residents. As communities in the Phoenix Metro are experiencing exponential growth, especially the Town of Gilbert, there are opportunities for regional collaboration for solid waste and recycling services. As the recycling economy is expected to […]

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Towards a Circular Cordoba: Innovative approaches to waste integrated management and reduction

The municipality of Cordoba, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, has a population of almost 205,000 inhabitants in 89 rural and 6 urban locations. More than 186,000 kg of municipal solid waste is collected daily in the municipality, which is equivalent to an average daily generation per person of 1 kg of municipal solid waste […]

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Rescuing La Piedad Lagoon

Since 2023, EPIC-N has helped the Metropolitan Autonomous University Azcapotzalco increase efforts to save the La Piedad Lagoon in the city of Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico through a series of alumni projects involving over 300 undergraduate students. The salvation of La Piedad from contaminants is critical to the city as it is an essential body of […]

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Bandung Institute of Technology

Website: https://itb.ac.id/ The Bandung Institute of Technology (Institut Teknologi Bandung: ITB), a national research university in Bandung, Indonesia, has a long history of producing influential leaders in science, engineering, politics, business, academia, and culture. As a member of the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N) through the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, […]

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