NSF Convergence Accelerator Track I: SpheriCity -- Circularity from Molecules to the Built Environment in Communities

NSF 融合加速器轨道 I：SpheriCity——从分子到社区建筑环境的循环

• 批准号: 2345080
• 负责人: Jenna Jambeck
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-12-15 至 2026-11-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Track; SpheriCity

This project aims to optimize circularity, from the city up, transforming the linear consumption model of raw material extraction, production, use, and disposal that dominates the global economy. This linear model has led to serious unintended worldwide issues, from pollution to resource depletion. This project will reimagine how we design, from molecules and materials to buildings and communities. The newly updated and expanded Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP) framework will be co-implemented with 11 cities. CAP integrates the open data tool Debris Tracker with data freely available, joining data from nearly 100 countries around the world. The new portal for this project will house the data from Phase I and Phase II communities aiming to foster global dialogue about community circularity and creating meaningful change. To increase circularity, the researchers will help communities address systemic and intersectional issues, including pollution burdens, lack of infrastructure, and lack of access to services. The project will further develop a platform for underrepresented voices through an existing podcast called Aquathread, produced and recorded at WUGA, the University of Georgia’s NPR affiliate. This research will continue to increase public scientific literacy and engagement with science and technology through the use of open data and free mobile citizen science apps; improve the well-being of individuals in society by reducing waste and improving the built environment; and develop a diverse, globally competitive workforce. All communities, partners, and the public will have access to project data, facilitating the use of science and technology to inform public policy and support decision-making.In contrast to the linear economy of ‘take, make, waste’, circular economy (CE) decouples economic growth from resource consumption. CE principles are based on the efficient use of resources and eliminating waste from product life cycles. This project will tackle the complex challenges that currently inhibit the circular economy’s growth by deeply integrating diverse disciplines through the researchers’ proven holistic systems framework. In Phase II, the newly updated and expanded Circularity Assessment Protocol (CAP) framework will be used to converge circularity across plastics (exploring polyfluoroalkyl substance-free alternatives), organic materials, and the built environment in 11 cities. In Phase I of this project, a circularity path was connected and converged across multiple materials and scales in two large metropolitan areas. Phase II will expand this work by training local implementation partners, and further developing a novel dynamic data and education portal. This portal will include city and metadata dashboards to facilitate inter- and intra-community dialogue to create systems change. Project partners include the Resilient Cities Network, a city-led network that brings together over 200 Chief Resilience Officers, practitioners, and researchers; the 2030 Districts Network of cities working to catalyze transformation in the built environment to mitigate the effects of climate change; Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative Mayors; and the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS). This network of networks is the next step in expanding this project into a sustainable future as a continued resource and platform for sharing amongst cities around the world catalyzing change.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在从城市开始优化循环，改变主导全球经济的原材料提取、生产、使用和处置的线性消费模式。这种线性模式导致了严重的全球性问题，从污染到资源枯竭。这个项目将重新想象我们如何设计，从分子和材料到建筑和社区。新更新和扩展的循环评估协议（CAP）框架将与11个城市共同实施。联合呼吁程序将开放数据工具碎片追踪器与免费提供的数据结合起来，将来自世界各地近100个国家的数据结合起来。该项目的新门户网站将包含来自第一阶段和第二阶段社区的数据，旨在促进关于社区循环和创造有意义变革的全球对话。为了增加循环性，研究人员将帮助社区解决系统性和交叉性问题，包括污染负担，缺乏基础设施和缺乏服务。该项目将进一步开发一个平台，通过现有的播客称为Aquathread，生产和记录在WUGA，格鲁吉亚的NPR附属大学代表性不足的声音。这项研究将继续通过使用开放数据和免费的移动的公民科学应用程序来提高公众的科学素养和对科学技术的参与;通过减少浪费和改善建筑环境来改善社会中个人的福祉;并发展多元化，具有全球竞争力的劳动力。所有社区、合作伙伴和公众都可以访问项目数据，促进科学技术的使用，为公共政策提供信息，支持决策制定。与“取、造、废”的线性经济不同，循环经济（CE）将经济增长与资源消耗结合起来。CE原则基于资源的有效利用和消除产品生命周期中的浪费。该项目将通过研究人员经过验证的整体系统框架深入整合不同学科，解决目前抑制循环经济增长的复杂挑战。在第二阶段，新更新和扩展的循环性评估协议（CAP）框架将用于聚合塑料（探索不含多氟烷基物质的替代品），有机材料和11个城市的建筑环境的循环性。在该项目的第一阶段，一条环形路径在两个大都市区的多种材料和尺度上连接和融合。第二阶段将通过培训地方执行伙伴和进一步开发一个新的动态数据和教育门户来扩大这项工作。该门户网站将包括城市和元数据仪表板，以促进社区之间和社区内部的对话，从而实现系统变革。项目合作伙伴包括韧性城市网络，这是一个由城市主导的网络，汇集了200多名首席韧性官员，从业者和研究人员; 2030年地区城市网络致力于促进建筑环境的转型，以减轻气候变化的影响;密西西比河城市和城镇倡议市长;以及上中西部校园可持续发展协会（UMACS）。这个网络的网络是扩展到一个可持续发展的未来作为一个持续的资源和平台，分享世界各地的城市之间的催化变化的下一步。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。