The Enterprise Tech Driving Nashville’s Historic Growth
Nashville, TN, is growing fast, and that’s led to transformative projects. Here’s how a GIS system helps it stay ahead of change.
Posts Tagged: climate change
Maryland County Shapes Growth Strategy with GIS-enabled Digital Twin
In Maryland’s most densely populated municipality, government planners are using geographic information system (GIS) technology, including interactive 3D models, to design innovative housing and land development projects.
Communities Can Find Climate Data, Funding Sources in New White House Portal
At the center of the new Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation portal is a tool that features data relevant to making decisions and projections about climate conditions that can be searched by address to help communities adapt.
How a Southern California City Became Drone-Ready with Geospatial Technology
Residents in Ontario, California, are poised to be among the first in the U.S. to experience a citywide drone delivery program.
5 Easy Ways to Foster a Sustainable Workplace
Sustainability is usually discussed as a personal choice. How about bringing it to the workplace? How can you promote a sustainable workplace environment?
Daring Cities 2020 Virtual Gathering
Join thousands of urban thought-leaders and changemakers for three weeks of virtual programming to strategize, learn and commit together to respond to the climate emergency in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saving Our Seas
It’s no secret that the ocean is a vast space. Comprising over 90 percent of the Earth’s habitable space, it seems impossible that humans could have a serious impact on this massive environment teeming with life. However, scientific research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is proving that we can and are havingRead… Read more »
The Ethics of Government Intervention in Environmental Change
Bioethics is a complex, necessary field of philosophical study. While our government has usually stayed away from normative ethics in favor of applied ethics, protecting the environment often elicits an after-the-fact normative question: “How ought the government have acted in protecting the environment?” With numerous federal agencies and programs set up explicitly to help protectRead… Read more »