Sustainability Lab Hosts Interdisciplinary Workshop on Poverty in Nepali Brick Kiln Communities
Students and faculty from the Sustainability Lab, joined by an interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners, discuss air quality, education, and infrastructure in Nepal's brick kiln factories. The event was co-hosted by the Ballard Center for Social Impact and is part of a larger initiative to understand and address the complicated and interconnected challenges of poverty.
Study reveals cost, energy needed to pump Pacific Ocean water into Great Salt Lake
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Addressing Interrelated Challenges of Poverty in Nepal
An interdisciplinary team seeks to understand the challenge of poverty in the brick kilns of Nepal, and finds that community members hope to improve air quality, critical infrastructure, and education.
Analysis of Irrigation by Remote Sensing (AIRS) supports water sustainability
On urban parcels in particular, irrigation is difficult to measure and manage because of so many variables in landscape size, shape, quality, and water use behavior. Annelise Capener, a graduate student in the Sustainability Lab, is studying how remote sensing can help.
An interdisciplinary lab researching convergence of the built environment, natural environment, and social environment
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