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The People Versus Conventional Energy: The Transition to Come
(2019-12)The past decade has seen growth in the spread of knowledge throughout the world about the dangers of climate change. The majority of the scientific community is in agreement that humans due to burning of fossil fuels have ... -
True Competitive Souring: Expanding Competition in Federal Procurement to Reduce Government Expenditures
(2019-12)Competitive sourcing of services for the federal government has been practiced for some time. Recently, however, several U.S. municipalities and foreign countries have experimented with a new model of competitive sourcing, ... -
Criminal Justice Interventions to Reduce the Number of Suicides and Mentally Ill Individuals in California Jails
(2019-12)California’s jails and prisons have become the state’s mental health facilities and people are dying. While more mentally ill individuals are being sent to jail, the system is ill equipped to effectively treat this vulnerable ... -
Skid Row: Mitigating Los Angeles' Infamous Human Crisis
(2019-12)Emergency-level societal health risks are imminent for all of LA County as tens of thousands of its current residents are either housing-insecure or chronically homeless—a demographic which has increased by 28% in LA County ... -
Urban Oases: Using Aquaponics and Community to Reduce Food Insecurity in Baltimore City
(2019-12)Food insecurity describes a “…lack of access to adequate food [caused by] a lack of money and other resources.” In Baltimore City, the food insecurity rate is 21.3 percent. This figure is two to three times more severe ... -
Memorandum of Policy Approach for Pre-School Education Development
(2019-12)The shortage of pre-school education supply is a significant problem, and the Universal Two-Child Policy in 2016 made the imbalance of supply and demand worse. The first wave of baby boomers starts to exert influence to ... -
Saving The National Endowment for the Arts: Why Publicly Funded Art Serves as a Public Good
(2019-12)The presented body of work explores the history and need for the National Endowment of the Arts. The NEA has consistently represented only about 0.015% (one one-hundredth of one percent) of the federal budget since its ... -
Addressing Poverty Through Technical Training
(2019-12)In the United States, the Millennial Generation has experienced economic instability and struggled to obtain financial security. An analysis of the current situation revealed that this generation has struggled to find ... -
Combating Sea Level Rise: A Policy Proposal to Improve Installation Resilience and Military Readiness
(2019-12)The Department of Defense manages one of the world’s largest real estate portfolios, maintaining 1,200 installations in the U.S. to support its mission of deterring conflict and protecting national security. Safeguarding ... -
Abortion in the United States - Protecting and Expanding Access
(2019-12)Access to abortion in the United States is becoming increasingly determined by the state legislatures. Restrictive abortion laws at the state level that impose onerous requirements on providers and restrict women and girls’ ... -
Reflections on #displace18.
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Cultural Anthropologists Are Helping to Build the Low-Carbon Path
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Virtual meeting of the minds: Hopkins helps facilitate an unconventional academic conference.
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Web Archive (WARC) of twitter.com/hashtag/displace18
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Web Archive (WARC) of displacements.jhu.edu
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Flying Green: The Low-Carbon Airport of Tomorrow
(2019-12)The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates that 918 million metric tons of CO2 is generated from global aviation operations, including commercial, belly freight and dedicated freight. Additionally, ... -
High Coping Self-Efficacy Associated With Lower Sweat Inflammatory Cytokines in Adults: A Pilot Study
Introduction/Background: Chronic diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, are considered inflammatory conditions with elevated levels of the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha ... -
Compact Growth and Smart City Development: The Unsustainability of Urban Sprawl
(2019-12)As cities become more populated, are municipal governments struggling to manage the influx of demand in the realm of power usage and city resources regarding critical infrastructure and energy management? Contemporary ... -
Significant Concern about Climate and Health Among Montana Public and Environmental Health Professionals
(2019-12)A survey of Montana public and environmental health professionals conducted during September and October 2019 revealed that these health professionals not only largely accept climate change but also have significant concerns ...