Science is foundational to life and the planet as we know it. Policymakers understand this, as do scientists. However the boundary-spanning between policymakers and scientists does not come naturally. Given the current vulnerabilities faced by places, people, ecosystems, and markets, it is essential to create more opportunities for policymakers and scientists to work effectively together. The dynamic tension created by the “pull” o...

The Sacred Rivers Carbon Project utilizes Hivemind’s cutting edge mycelium technology, to create carbon banks within critical watersheds throughout Southeast Asia. These sites can help reverse catastrophic climate change and also prevent habitat and biodiversity loss, clean up air and water pollution, and provide local economic development that create jobs and can empower women. The projects will be sustained and scaled through the sale...

What occurs in a community is inherently geographically personal; everyone who lives in a place cares about that place. That means governments and citizens rely on each other to meet the community’s needs and shape its future. Esri’s GIS-based Smart Community Information System provides an opportunity to evolve how governments think about civic inclusion. It can help flag where people are speaking up and where are they not, which n...

Providing your street address, city and zip code in the registration is optional. But the first 100 that do provide their complete address will get a free copy of "Vacant to Vibrant" mailed to them. Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization. As manufacturing cities reinvent themselves after decades of lost jobs and population, abundant vacant land resources and intere...

The current state of the utilities industry has led to a difficult crossroad for companies. SAP customers in utilities are looking to make more business processes digital but are faced with the challenge of whether they will have the time, budget, teams, or infrastructure needed for an implementation. Now more than ever, collaboration between the utility’s community is imperative—which is exactly what the SAP Utilities Conference p...

LiDar (Li detection and ranging) data is location data. If you’ve seen a semi-autonomous car before, you’ve probably seen a LiDAR sensor. LiDAR enables a semi-autonomous car to detect surroundings with lasers; it can be used to create 3D elevation maps to help farmers to increase efficiency and it can be used to visualize buildings on a map in really high detail to showcase your real estate portfolio. In this webinar, Allan Walker,...

Currently, community risks consider only a few parameters such as extreme weather, employment rates and business outlooks. The current practice is a singular standard ESG score for a country or region, ignoring significant sub-national spatial differences or differential importance of ESG factors in estimating the risk profile. The result are general assessments that lack the precision of more granular/investment-grade analyses. But, the world...

Online Professional Education CourseSelf-Paced with Three Webinars with the InstructorOctober 15, 2019 – November 11, 2019Complete by December 15, 2019 Earn a Professional Education Certificate from George Washington University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. A GWU collaboration with the Security and Sustainability Forum Course Starts: October 15, 2019. Self-Paced Videos Plus Live Webinars: Students watch twenty-three...

Vanguard municipalities are finding replicable ways to pay for climate resilience investments. Cities that have begun implementing climate resilience projects have used distinct strategies to to obtain public and private financial resources that pay for large-scale climate-resilience. These strategies amount to an initial approach—"Playbook 1.0"—for deciding who will pay what and how city governments will generate the needed revenu...

THE CONFERENCE Sept 25-27, 2019 The conference is your chance to learnabout the latest developments from business, industry and government sectors. It also provides you with multiple opportunities for networkingwith your peers, or meeting with potential vendors and business partners. THE EXPO Sept 25 – 26, 2019 A wide range of industry-leading companies present and demonstrate energy efficient products, energy management services, and so...