Engaging Students in STEM Education
January 27, 2019 – Gregory Bair
The importance of effective STEM education continues to grow. and is widely perceived as a catalyst for employment and career opportunity, as well as the basis of sustainable community development.
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Landscape Design Influences Health Care Outcome
November 27, 2018 – Gregory Bair
The availability of quality health care is an important resource for community well-being. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation,” physiological needs are at the very base of the pyramid hierarchy and are what Maslow calls ‘basic needs.’ Basic needs form the foundation of motivation, according to…
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At least Puerto Rico has a plan, why not us?
March 10, 2018 – Justin Moorhead
A recent conversation on our coming 2018 election raised the question of whether the candidates (incumbents and challengers) truly understand the breadth of the problem facing the Virgin Islands and are thinking beyond winning to the issues of governance. Tangentially related, a recent published critique of Puerto Rico’s new fiscal plan of recovery, conflated my…
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Land Use Planning and the Road to Thoughtful Response to Climate Change
January 20, 2018 – Christopher Visentin
More frequent and powerful storms and record-setting temperatures have brought climate change concerns to higher prominence in recent years. As international initiatives like the Paris Climate Accord suggest, climate change is a global issue, requiring proportionately large-scale action to address it. Given the global scale of the problem, as well as the surplus of responses…
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Buffeted by Hurricanes; Flattened by Debt
December 12, 2017 – Justin Moorhead
The federal government is requiring we descend the proverbial rabbit hole and go further into debt to defray the cost associated with hurricanes Irma and Maria recovery. Government leadership should have rejected this offer. To do so would have required unity of purpose. It would not have been an easy decision and clearly not politically…
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