As a continually growing city, Peoria strives to provide its residents with innovative and robust services. As one of the leading communities in sustainability, Peoria has driven sustainability forward with the expansion of its public transit services and recycling education programs. Peoria has launched various initiatives of its services, including the launch of the Peoria […]
Sustainable Development Goal: 13 Climate Action
Historic Preservation: Frameworks and Guiding Principles
The City of Peoria’s Old Town area is a significant historical site in the community. Similar to many historic districts and downtown areas throughout the United States, Old Town could benefit from reinvestment in the form of historic preservation and revitalization efforts. These types of projects aim to highlight regional history while creating new community […]
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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 […]
Mapping urban inundation areas for sustainable drainage and waterlogging management to climate change. The case of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Due to its topography and tropical monsoon climate, Vietnam is susceptible to the detrimental effects of climate change. Unfortunately, the infrastructure in the Mekong Delta Region is inadequate and unable to manage the consequences. An Giang is the upstream province of the Mekong Delta, hence the floods depth and length are more and longer than in […]
Public Green Space GIS in Hat Yai Municipality
Hat Yai Municipality plans to transform itself into a “Green City” while developing protocols to deal with its vulnerabilities. Even before COVID-19 impacted the municipality, it was already facing extensive challenges due to climate change and its location and elevation. The municipality plans to embrace flexibility in future urban design, taking potential disruptions into account. […]
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Community Engagement through Coral Reef Research Initiatives
Coral reefs are vital to healthy marine ecosystems but are in serious decline due to pollution, global warming, and other threats. This decline also has serious ecological consequences to communities that rely on tourism to coral reefs as a central source of income. In this presentation Dr. Stephanie Lockwood discusses the multinational, study abroad undergraduate […]
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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY URBAN FARMING WORKSHOP – ONLINE
Virtual Workshop for Sustainable Community Urban Farming under EPIC seed grant and follow the EPIC Model organized by UPSI students course LM A182. A total numbers of participants consists of 41 communities, 2 Professors, 12 UPSI students, 4 MBSP staff and 3 industries representatives. The Speaker for the program is: Slot 1 : Prof Dr […]
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HANDS ON TRAINING: TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE
The Permatang Pauh farmer-youth capacity building-training programme was designed with the goal to empower the local farmers and youth to increase their income via awareness and adoption of sustainable smart composting techniques, polyculture farming encompassing aquaponics-hydroponics and fertigation. This programme was implemented by adapting THE EPIC MODEL brings together resources professors, students and existing green […]
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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 […]