The SDG Actions are innovative projects developed by the MOC-LLAB team, as part of our Toolkit, promoting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in southern California and the Baja California Mexico region.
The SDG Actions are case study partnerships – between institutions with shared interests but who otherwise would not connect, or be able to do so as easily is at the heart of the MOC-LLAB. These partnerships will pioneer new methods, derive new insights, build new infrastructure, and develop policies with the aim of facilitating better decisions that lead to better lives. Like many networks, the majority of these interactions have sometimes taken place behind closed doors, physical, and virtual. This leads to less recognition of this important work and sometimes duplication of efforts.
The SDG Actions section offers a platform to represent the activities of its members and for burgeoning data collaboratives to attract input, resources, and partners, while offering regular updates about progress.
SDG in Action Projects in 2023
MOC-LLAB at ESRI User Conference 2023 in San Diego, CA!
Primer Foro de Buenas Prácticas Ambientales en la UABC
SANDAG Coffee and Career Chat – MOC-LLAB
Evaluating the Safe Routes to School transportation program in social vulnerable communities in San Diego County, California
SDSU’s US-Mexico Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard
SDG in Action Projects in 2022
Evaluating the Safe Routes to School transportation program in social vulnerable communities in San Diego County, California
Location: San Diego County – Chula Vista, California Child safety is among the strongest impediments to children walking or biking to school, but for some it is a necessity due to financial or other circumstances. Walking or biking to school…
Smartphone-based light detection and ranging: a case study of measuring homeless encampments in downtown San Diego
The United Nations “Leave No One Behind” motto is a commitment to assure the 2030 Global Agenda benefit all people, in particular marginalized groups. However, disadvantaged populations, such as homeless groups, are still getting left behind and not advocated for…
SDSU’s US-Mexico Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard
Location: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico The SDSU United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard is a data-driven initiative lead by the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab in collaboration with the…
Detecting plastic pollution using data science methods in Imperial Beach, CA and Dunga Beach, Kenya
This project defines a replicable and flexible methodological framework for assessing the magnitude and distribution of marine pollution and impacts of beach activities. This analysis aims to provide comprehensive and harmonized information on plastics to deepen understanding on the management…
SDG in Action Projects in 2021
International Society for Industrial Ecology. Cities Beyond Borders: (Re)thinking the urban metabolism
9th International Conference on Sustainable Development
International One Health Conference – Urban Resilience: Strategies for a post-pandemic vision for cities
FOSS4G Conference
Hispanic Heritage Month SDSN-USA
SDG in Action Projects in 2020
Social Response to Covid-19: Sentiment Analysis and SMART Dashboard
The pandemic spread rapidly across Italy putting the region’s health system on the brink of collapse, highlighting the government’s capacity to respond to citizens. Ten dashboards provided an aggregated view of what people across Italy tweet during the pandemic by…
Track IT Covid-19 International Survey: Societal effects and perceptions
This study provides data from a large-scale survey covering societal effects and perceptions during the Covid-19 pandemic across geographies. The study aims to expand public knowledge and awareness on the effects of Covid on social behaviors, policy measures/regulations, well-being, government…
SDSU’s US-Mexico Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard
Location: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico The SDSU United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard is a data-driven initiative lead by the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab in collaboration with the…
SDG in Action Projects in 2019
SDSU’s US-Mexico Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard
Location: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico The SDSU United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard is a data-driven initiative lead by the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab in collaboration with the…
The Nebula Project: Fog harvesting in urban environments
Location: Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Exploring fog harvesting technologies as an alternative source of water through a technique used to capture water from wind driven fog in the winter and humidity during hot summer days using nature-based solutions; tensile…
SDG in Action Projects in 2018
MOC-LLAB at ESRI User Conference 2023 in San Diego, CA!
Date: July 13, 2023, 8:30 am – 9:30 am (PST) | Location: San Diego, California, Room: 28A | SDCC The Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, Director, Dr. Gabriela Fernandez and Director of the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile…
Primer Foro de Buenas Prácticas Ambientales en la UABC
Location: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico | Date: May 12, 2023 Dr. Gabriela Fernandez and Dr. Alma Beatriz Navarro presented the recently signed SDG MOU collaboration between San Diego State University, Metabolism of Cities Living Lab and the…
SANDAG Coffee and Career Chat – MOC-LLAB
Location: San Diego, CA, San Diego Association of Governments | Date: May 9, 2023 Dr. Gabriela Fernandez the Director of the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab was invited to SANDAG to provide more information about her career journey and the…
Para Mi Barrio
Location: Barrio Logan, San Diego, California Para Mi Barrio aims to increase awareness on the current health of the Barrio Logan community, both virtually and physically through sustainable programs. The mission is to provide easy, digestible information for the Barrio…
Streetwise San Diego
Location: Downtown San Diego, California San Diego is in the top 5 cities with the largest homeless populations in California. The community in downtown San Diego specifically is struggling with drastic increased numbers and feels they are lacking the proper…
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