The Survey is To describe food-related school lunch practices in E3 Civic High School of San Diego Unified School District by handout anonymous survey including questions about the school lunch environment and food-related practices.
The San Diego County agriculture sector is marked as the 12th largest economy in California and 19th largest economy nation-wide, contributing a value of $1.8 billion dollars to San Diego County per year. The City of Escondido takes part in the harvest of crops and, more recently, has faced labor shortages putting a strain on many farm owners and crop providers.
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 Metabolism of Cities Living Lab researchers presented “Monitoring marine litter through participatory GIS: case studies and lessons learned” at the FOSS4G Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Date: November 22, 2021 | Location: Seoul, South Korea 1st International Symposium on Plastic Pollution, Post Plastic, University of Seoul, Korea. PRESENTATION: “Plastic detection using a multi-method approach: Comparative case studies from coastal tourism sites.” Partners Maione Carol and Fernandez Gabriela
Date: October 28-29, 2021 | Location: South Korea 1st International Symposium on Plastic Pollution: Removal, Analysis, and Risk Assessment of Microplastics. In assessing the effects of emerging plastics on the environment and public health. University of Seoul, Hanyang University, South Korea, and Ministry of Environment… Read More »1st International Symposium on Plastic Pollution
Date: May 12, 2022 | Location: Germany United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Selected Satellite Activity. Organizers: Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age, San Diego State University; The POLLY Foundation; Wins World (Connecting Generations); Jijenge… Read More »UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Selected Satellite Activity
Date: April 30, 2022 and May 12, 2022 | Location: Imperial Beach, California (South Beach) and Dunga Beach, Kenya Detecting Plastic Pollution using Data Science Methods in Imperial Beach, California and Dunga Beach, Kenya. Beach cleanup in Imperial Beach, CA and Dunga Beach, Kenya. This… Read More »Beach Cleanup in Imperial Beach, CA and Dunga Beach, Kenya
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
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