Even With Electric Vehicles, An Expanded Turnpike Extension Would Be Bad For The Environment

View the article “Even With Electric Vehicles, An Expanded Turnpike Extension Would Be Bad For The Environment”.

There is currently a heated policy debate over a part of the New Jersey Turnpike across from Lower Manhattan (circled in the image above). The Turnpike Authority has proposed replacing and expanding this stretch of road. The governor supports it, but most local politicians oppose it. This article argues against the Turnpike expansion, detailing its environmental harms and instead calling for investment in transit, cycling, and walking. It …

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New York’s Housing Plans Must Address Affordability—& Climate Change

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New York City is one of the most energy-efficient places in the United States, thanks to its high population density and excellent (by US standards) transit. However, it is also one of the most expensive places, thanks to its extremely high cost of housing. This article calls for an ambitious increase in the local housing supply to address both affordability and climate change. It is published in City Limits, a news publication …

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Space Expansion Must Support Sustainability – On Earth and in Space

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This article, published with the Royal United Services
Institute, discusses the role of sustainability when expanding human activities
into outer space. The article illustrates how a framework for space expansion
is being set right now, but that this framework risks expanding unsustainable practices
and paradigms into space. Consequently, global civilization risks wasting
immense amounts of resources and even failing to sustain humanity at worst. In response,
the article suggests five points of emphasis for a robust sustainability …

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Recommendations to the OSTP on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan

View GCRI’s submission to the OSTP on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.

On 1 January 2021, the National AI Initiative Act of 2020 became law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The National AI Initiative Act calls for regular updates to the National AI R&D Strategic Plan to include “goals, priorities, and metrics for guiding and evaluating how the agencies carrying out the National AI Initiative will support AI research. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requested input from the …

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