Center for

SustainableCommunities

Garry A. Harris CEO, HTS Enterprises

Managing Director, CSC www.csc-atl.com

…a non-profit that provides communities (particularly at risk and disadvantaged) with the resources to make their communities:

Greener Cleaner Healthier Safer

CSC

Center for Sustainable Communities

Specialized programming ResearchAnalysisAssessmentsEvaluationsEngineeringTraining and Instruction

Established in 2010 Pioneers in the “sustainability movement” Senior Staff - broad certification and credentials base Research Focused Committed Board of Directors Core Competencies

Research Analysis Assessment Survey Specialized program design

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Community Foundation: Grants to GreenUS EPAAtlanta Regional CommissionAtlanta Beltline ProjectEnergy Services CoalitionUS Forest ServiceMorehouse CollegeHome Depot

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CSC Major Collaborations

SMART Growth

Workforce & economic

development analysis

Community scale sustainability

initiatives

Energy and water conservation

analysis

STEM education

Green space

Heat island effect

Distributed

generation

analysis

Air and water quality

Urban waters and

forest

Urban agriculture and

policy

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What’s included?

Fully equipped research facilities and laboratories

Research facilities extend outdoors and in unique locations

Heavily computerized facilities with latest technology

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Research Facilities

Anemometers Deployed on Rooftop Atmospheric Laboratory Wind, temperature, and solar radiation sensors measuring meteorological parameters on the roof of the Cole Research Center for Science and Technology at Clark Atlanta University

Energy Horizons Laboratory and R&D Center

HARP-High Altitude Research Platform

UHI - Urban Heat Island Effect Laboratory

UARC - Urban Agriculture Research Center

Clean, Healthy, Green Housing Project

CEIRT - Center for Energy, Infrastructure and Renewable Technologies ARMS - Advanced Atmospheric Environmental Research and Monitoring Station

SMART Academy Center of Excellence (K-12 STEM)

SMART Growth Communities Initiative

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Research and Project Initiatives

Sustaining CSC: A Ten Year Plan

World Class Science, Research and Education Programs

Full Scope - Geology, Hydrology, GIS, Weather, Climate, Agribusiness, etc.

Collaborating with National and International Programs and Laboratories

Increasing STEM skills inventory Cutting Edge Innovation,

Methodologies, Products and Services Real World Applications and Solutions

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