Whole Cities Foundation partners with more than 225 nonprofits in North America to improve access to healthy food and nutritional education. It recently announced that 11 community-led nonprofit organizations have been awarded up to $15,000 Read More
The “NY Food 2025: Policy Recommendations for a Stronger, Healthier, More Just, and Sustainable Food System in NYC” was recently released by the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, The Laurie M. Tisch Center for Read More
Berlin, Germany recently opened the Security Operations Center (SOC), a part of the Berlin IT Service Center (ITDZ). In a bid to detect and ward off hacker attacks, the center will be manned around the Read More
Sofia – the capital of Bulgaria – is hosting a project in one of its open-air markets to start recycling food waste into compost. The project – called ‘City Compost for Sustainable Agriculture’ – is Read More
In 2021, the City of Vantaa in Finland was named the European Rising Innovative City at the European Rising Innovative City Awards finals held in Brussels, Belgium. The prize money for the award totaled EUR 500,000 Read More
The New York City Mayor’s Office is mandated by the City Charter to release a biannual management report which charts the performance of city agencies and programs, such as response times for New York’s 311 Read More
The University of Melbourne, Kapsch TrafficCom, and the Victorian Department of Transport are launching a new traffic management system in Melbourne, Australia with the goal of easing congestion; improving road safety for cars, pedestrians and Read More
The city of Tallinn in Estonia will be participating in an international project to develop adaptation measures to counter the increasing effect of heat waves caused by climate change. Tallinn’s Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Read More
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched an initiative – Communities LEAP (Local Energy Action Program) – to help cities, towns, and tribes develop clean energy projects and find funding for them from the Read More
As part of the Green New Deal for Boston, Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the City of Boston’s Environment Department are launching an electric school bus pilot program in a bid to reduce vehicle emissions, Read More
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