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Edmonds, WA Promoting the Use of Apprentices in Public Works Projects

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 7/5/05
Source File: http://www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/resolutions/2005/Reso1100.pdf
Text:
RESOLUTION NO. 1100
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, PROMOTING THE USE OF APPRENTICES IN PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS.
WHEREAS, a highly skilled workforce is essential for enhancing economic
growth and the continued prosperity of workers; and,
WHEREAS, apprenticeship is a proven, highly effective training model, as
indicated by the 1998 Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board report, providing
consistent wage progression to family wage careers; and
WHEREAS, the 1998 Employment Security Department report, Studies in
Industry and Employment, highlighted that apprenticeship programs in Washington are
“effective but underutilized;” and
WHEREAS, shortages of skilled construction workers limit job growth and affect
our economy. This “skill gap” problem will continue to grow, due to the large numbers of skilled
worker retirements and increased construction activity; and
WHEREAS, the responsibility to train the next generation of skilled workers rests
with both the public and private sectors; and
WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds is committed to working in partnership with
labor and business to create a skilled workforce that reflects the diversity of our population and
promotes community development; and
WHEREAS, recent actions of the Washington State Apprenticeship and
Training Council (WSATC) have made apprenticeships more widely available in the
construction industry; and
WHEREAS, growing participation in apprenticeship programs today will ensure a
viable workforce in the construction trade industry tomorrow; now, therefore
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City shall require good faith efforts from contractors to use
WSATC-registered apprentices as follows:
A. Levels of Apprenticeship Participation shall be:
:1. For contracts estimated to cost more than one million dollars for the construction, remodeling, or renovation of buildings owned by the City and Edmonds Crossing that are awarded on or after August 1, 2005, fifteen percent (15%) of total labor hours.
:2. These requirements may be modified for a specific project for the following reasons:
::a. A lack of availability of qualified apprentices;
::b. A disproportionately high ratio of material costs to labor hours, which does not make feasible the required minimum level of apprentice participation
::c. Participating contractors have demonstrated a good faith effort to comply with the requirements of this resolution; or
::d. Other criteria deemed appropriate.
Category:City Governments
Category:Labor Issues
Category:Resolutions
Category:Washington
Edmonton, Alberta Environmental Policy

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted on 5/23/06
Source File: http://www.edmonton.ca/citygov/policy/C512.doc
Text:
Policy Statement:
The City of Edmonton, through its planning, decision-making processes, and leadership, will promote the development of an environmentally sustainable community that functions in harmony with the natural environment.
The City of Edmonton will exercise environmental stewardship of its operations, products and services, based on its commitment to: (a) prevent pollution, (b) continually improve its environmental performance by setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets, and (c) meet or exceed applicable environmental legal requirements and other requirements to which it subscribes.
The purpose of this policy is to state the City’s commitment to environmental sustainability in accordance with the following guiding principles:
* Quality Of Life: A healthy, sustainable environment is an essential requirement for high quality of life in Edmonton – both today and in the future.
* Shared Responsibility: The protection and preservation of Edmonton’s natural environment is a responsibility shared by municipal departments and branches, Edmonton’s business community, other orders of government, and Edmontonians. Collaboration, co-operation, and partnerships are needed to exercise this responsibility effectively.
* Decision-Making Model: Environmental considerations will be factored into business decisions made by the City of Edmonton.
* Protection of the Natural Environment: The City of Edmonton will take a leadership role in protecting natural heritage and biodiversity within the municipality and region.
* Intergenerational Equality: The City of Edmonton will strive to understand and minimize the negative environmental impacts its operations may have on future generations.
* Public Awareness and Understanding: The City of Edmonton will take a leadership role in increasing public awareness of environmental issues and the actions citizens can take.
* Citizen Consultation and Participatory Decision Making: Communities and stakeholders must have the opportunity to participate in the decision-making process and be empowered to develop community-based environmental programs.
Category:Alberta
Category:Canada
Category:City Governments
Category:Policies
Category:Sustainability Policies
Edmonton, Alberta Planning Academy

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: Click here
Description:
What is the Planning Academy?
The City of Edmonton’s Planning Academy offers a series of courses designed to provide a better understanding of the planning and development process in Edmonton.
The Program consists of core and elective courses. Participants can earn a Certificate of Participation by completing the three core courses and one elective course. Participants are welcome to take any course, in any order, whether or not it will lead to a certificate.
The City developed Planning Academy to help Edmontonians:
* better understand and participate in the planning process, and
* better understand the roles, rights and interests of all parties involved in the planning and development process.
The Planning Department will offer each course at least once a year and city staff will facilitate the courses. Courses vary in length from three to six hours and participants will receive a manual, instruction, and light refreshments. Sessions will consist of discussions and “real life” activities to increase participants’ understanding.
What Courses can I Take?
There are 3 core courses:
:1. Land Use Planning: The Big Picture
:2. Getting a Grip on Land Use Planning
:3. Come Plan with Us: Using Your Voice
There are 2 elective courses:
:1. Transportation
:2. Urban Design
Category:Alberta
Category:Canada
Category:Citizen Academies
Category:City Governments
Category:Land Use
Category:Programs
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El Paso County, TX Recommending a Moratorium on State Executions

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 10/30/06
Vote: In Favor - 4 Opposed - 1
Source File: http://www.co.el-paso.tx.us/meetings/commcourt/2006-10-30/41.pdf
Text:
WHEREAS, it is not only the right, but the duty of counties, which are an arm of the State, to advise the Governor and State Legislature on matters of concern to them when the action of the state directly affects the counties; and
WHEREAS, the Governor, Legislature and County officials are striving to improve the administration of justice in Texas, with Governor Rick Perry organizing in March of 2005, a blue-ribbon Criminal Justice Advisory Council; and
WHEREAS, this Council was charged with making recommendations to lessen the possibility that someone would be wrongly convicted, including those persons arrested for a capital crime; and
WHEREAS, these safety measures have not yet been put into effect and there IS the possibility of executing an innocent person with county taxpayers liable under certain circumstances; and
WHEREAS, the death penalty is expensive for counties, which bear the cost of the first trial and mandatory appeal: each execution costs about three times as much as life in prison without parole (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992); and
WHEREAS, El Paso County budgets $265,000 each year for defense -- not counting prosecution for one death penalty case and in one year there were two and two death penalty appeals, a small county could be bankrupted by one case; and
WHEREAS, Chris Ochoa of El Paso, who was completely innocent of rape and murder, but who confessed under the threat of the death penalty, was wrongly convicted in Travis County. He was later awarded a settlement against Travis County and the City of Austin for $5.3 million and his alleged accomplice, Richard Dunziger, $9 million, paid for by the taxpayers with bonds; and
WHEREAS, this resolution is not to criticize in any way the excellent work by particular elected individuals in the state, including District Attorneys, County Sheriffs and law enforcement officers, especially those of El Paso County; nor is it to minimize the profound pain that the families of murder victims suffer.
NOW, THERE BE IT RESOLVED the El Paso County Commissioners Court recommends to the Governor and Texas State Legislature that there be a moratorium on executions in the state until it can be shown that no innocent persons are put to death and that there are no adverse economic consequences of the death penalty. An ongoing monitoring would be in effect such that no significant safety problems would result from this moratorium.
Category:Capital Punishment
Category:County Governments
Category:Resolutions
Category:Texas
El Salvador

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_determined_contribution
* https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/all-about-ndcs
* https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs
El Salvador First NDC (2017 - Archived) - Spanish 
Contribuciones Nacionalmente Determinadas de El Salvador - Update (2021-2022)
El Salvador Update Submission Letter
INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 El Salvador's INDC plan - PDF
http://www.mapsopensource.com/el-salvador?url=el-salvador
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/LocationElSalvador.svg/1000px-LocationElSalvador.svg.png
Category:El Salvador
Category:Central America
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Category:Economic Development
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Emory University, GA Sustainable Food Initiative

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted
Source File: http://www.emory.edu/sustainability.cfm
Text:
Emory University Sustainable Food Initiative
 
Background: The Sustainability Vision for Emory endorsed by the President’s Cabinet in February 2006 articulates several specific goals for a sustainable food system: “Our university culture will value connection to place, will encourage time in the out of doors, and will teach about stewardship of our ecosystem, beginning with students’ and employees’ first moments on campus.” Other goals include the development of a regional sustainable food system to support healthy, local food in campus dining, education about our industrial food system and emerging alternatives to foster ethical engagement with the consequences of our food purchases. The Report specifically calls for building “a series of demonstration gardens with educational and leisure purposes” and developing “a visible college-led community garden for undergraduates and staff.”
Our food dollar is a vote for a particular system of food production and distribution. Emory University is working to find ways to support an expansion of fruit and vegetable production in Georgia and an eight state southern region to encourage sustainable and organic production methods. Food Alliance certification of "sustainable farm production" includes attention to the health of soils, streams, wildlife, working conditions, and biodiversity among crops. Grassfed meats also offer important health benefits, and we are pursuing ways to increase their presence in campus venues. The Sustainable Food Initiative partners with Emory Dining and Emory Hospital to implement our goal "to procure 75% of ingredients from local or sustainably grown sources by 2015."
Current Efforts include the development of:
* Purchasing gudelines for "local" and sustainable"
* Five small educational food gardens on campus
* An Oxford College Sustainable Food Initiative
* Improved nutritional labeling in all dining rooms
* Feasibility plan for a farmers market
* Student Summit on Food to guide menus and purchasing
* Educational efforts in and out of the classroom to foster knowledgeable and ethical engagement with the consequences of our food purchases
Category:Colleges
Category:Food-Related Policies
Category:Georgia
Category:Policies
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Equal Pay for Equal Work

Internationally -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_pay_for_equal_work
Equal Pay for Equal Work
United States -- The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law on January 29, 2009, ensuring that those facing pay-related discrimination can report unfair treatment at any time. In continuing the fight for pay equity, the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help address the income disparity between men and women in America.
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Equatorial Guinea

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INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Equatorial Guinea's INDC plan - DOCX
http://www.mapsopensource.com/Equatorial-Guinea?url=Equatorial-Guinea
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Category:Africa
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Erie, PA Single Stream Recycling Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.erie.pa.us/Default.aspx?tabid=129
Description:
SINGLE STREAM RECYCLING DIRECTIONS
We call it Single Stream recycling, because all eligible recyclable material (see list below) may be placed into a single clear or blue bag every week. Residents may place as many full bags of single stream recyclables as necessary curbside every week on the same night as their refuse pick-up.
1. USE BLUE OR CLEAR RECYCLABLE PLASTIC BAGS available at most retail stores in the area.
2. PLACE ALL THE FOLLOWING RECYCLABLES TOGETHER IN BLUE OR CLEAR BAGS:
:a. GLASS BOTTLES and JAR: clear, brown, and green. Rinsed and unbroken. DO NOT include window glass, drinking glasses, or light bulbs.
:b. METAL FOOD or BEVERAGE CANS: all types. Rinsed thoroughly. Crushed or uncrushed. DO NOT include: metal cookware, clothes hangers, or aerosol cans.
:c. PLASTIC CONTAINERS: numbers 1 through 7 (look on the bottom) such as beverage, detergent bottles, and milk, juice, and water jugs, include lids. Rinse thoroughly. Crushed or uncrushed. DO NOT include plastic toys, furniture or styrofoam.
:d. NEWSPAPERS and MAGAZINES: Place loose in bags or tie in bundles. DO NOT include phone books.
:e. CARDBOARD: Place in bags or set out loosely.
:f. PAPER BOARD/CHIP BOARD such as cereal and food boxes, pop and beer cartons, egg cartons and paper bags. DO NOT include wax coated boxes or pizza boxes.
:g. PAPER: ALL GRADES and COLORS, such as junk mail, envelopes, writing, typing, wrapping and computer paper. DO NOT include: paper towels, napkins, carbon paper, wax paper or plastic wrap.
3. PLACE BLUE/CLEAR BAGS AT CURBSIDE apart from trash on same evening as regular collection of household refuse. 
DO NOT INCLUDE: Refuse of any kind, diapers, heavily soiled containers, motor oil or petroleum containers, household hazardous waste or chemicals, medical waste or needles (place in hard sealed containers and dispose of with refuse).
Category:City Governments
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:Programs
Category:Recycling
Eritrea

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INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Eritrea's INDC plan - PDF
http://www.mapsopensource.com/eritrea?url=eritrea
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Eritrea_%28Africa_orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-Eritrea_%28Africa_orthographic_projection%29.svg.png
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Estes Park, CO Citizen's Information Academy (CIA)

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.estesnet.com/Administration/WhatsNew/CitizensAcademy.aspx
Description:
The Town of Estes Park is growing, and so is the need for its community members to learn about local government and how they can take part in shaping their Town’s future. Five years ago the Town of Estes Park Board of Trustees and staff developed a Citizens Information Academy (CIA) program for this purpose. The program was so successful that the Town plans to offer it again in 2007. The Academy’s role is to provide an educational opportunity to help the public become familiar with how local government works, and to encourage participation in local government.
Topics include the Town finance and budgeting, Police and Fire, Planning and Zoning, Municipal Court, water rights, and much more. Participants tour Town shops and hear the “inside scoop” on the challenges and rewards of serving as a Town Trustee. 
A maximum of 25 people will be accepted into the program. Applicants must be 18 or over. Those living beyond Town limits are eligible to participate; however, priority will be given to in-Town residents. The Town of Estes Park does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disabilities. There is no cost to participate.
Members of the Academy’s pilot program have given it rave reviews. “The sessions were extremely well planned and interesting, with a variety of Town staff taking time to prepare and participate,” commented one. “This forum is the most effective way for citizens to rapidly get the information they need to be involved with their government,” said another.
Category:Citizen Academies
Category:City Governments
Category:Colorado
Category:Programs
Estonia

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Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
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 Estonia's INDC plan - SUBMISSION BY LATVIA AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS 28 MEMBER STATES 
http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/Latvia/1/LV-03-06-EU%20INDC.pdf
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Category:Countries
Category:Agricultural Economics
Category:Ecological Economics
Category:Economic Development
Category:Human Rights
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Ethiopia

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INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Ethiopia's INDC plan - PDF
http://www.mapsopensource.com/ethiopia?url=ethiopia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Ethiopia_%28Africa_orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-Ethiopia_%28Africa_orthographic_projection%29.svg.png
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