Imperial Beach is a city in the southwestern area of San Diego County just 5 miles north of the Mexico border. Community members have protested sewage and trash runoff, odors, ear infections, bacteria levels, skin rashes, and unusual taste in the water, despite governmental water quality testing policies.
The Metabolism of Cities Living Lab and the United Nations Environmental Program – Major Group for Children and Youth – Microplastics and Marine Litter Working Group organized ahead of COP26 a youth summit event of interactive meetings addressed to young people around the world. Through a partnership with Hubzine Italia, Citta Studi Campus Sostenibile, Politecnico di Milano, and #All 4 Climate Italy.
A Recycling Concert and Global Goals workshop was developed by the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab and Politecnico di Milano at the Preuss School at UCSD, a unique charter middle and high school for low-income scholars who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college and the Tri-M Music Honor Society on April 26, 2022.
The exhibit consists of two parts: Metabolism of Cities Living Lab SDSU 4 SDGs “Leave No One Behind ” Exhibition & Libraries and Sustainability: Working Toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the SDSU Library.
Date: June 21, 2021 | Location: Yale University, New Haven Connecticut International Industrial Ecology (ISIE) Day 2021. Cities Beyond Borders: (Re)thinking the urban metabolism. Slot 9, International Society for Industrial Ecology, Yale University. The Metabolism of Cities Living Lab and Politecnico di Milano organized a… Read More »International Society for Industrial Ecology. Cities Beyond Borders: (Re)thinking the urban metabolism
Date: September 21-23, 2021 | Location: Milan, Italy International One Health Conference – Urban Resilience: Strategies for a post-pandemic vision for cities, Politecnico di Milano, Resilience Lab Partners Yang Harrison, Fernandez Gabriela, Maione Carol, Zaballa Karenina, Bonnici Norbert, Carter Jarai, Sptizberg Brian, Chanwoo J., and… Read More »International One Health Conference – Urban Resilience: Strategies for a post-pandemic vision for cities
Date: September 30, 2021 | Location: Milan, Italy The Metabolism of Cities Living Lab and the United Nations Environmental Program – Major Group for Children and Youth – Microplastics and Marine Litter Working Group organized ahead of COP26 a youth summit event of interactive meetings… Read More »UN Climate change pre-cop 26 #All4climate Italy: Youth4climate
Date: October 2022 | Location: Cham, Switzerland SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives book series (IUNSDGRP) Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cham, (pp 1-19), ISBN-13: 9783031160165. BOOK CHAPTER: “Protecting our oceans with citizen science: El Astillero,… Read More »SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainability and Innovation in the Cali Baja Transborder Region Date: November 14, 2022 | Location: San Diego State University, San Diego, California The Metabolism of Cities Living Lab presented research “Detecting plastic pollution along the US-Mexico Border using citizen science” at the REBorder Conference 2022… Read More »REBorder Conference
The importance of mangroves and beach ecosystems for west Africa coastal environments Time: November 14, 2022 at 10:00 – 11:45 AM (EET) | Location: Hall B, Green Zone Tonino, Lamborghini International Conference Center, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt COP 27 Green Zone Side Event: The 27th… Read More »COP 27 Green Zone Side Event
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