Sintana Vergara
Environmental Engineer and Junior Professional Associate
Sintana Vergara joined the World Bank’s Urban Development unit to assess and improve solid waste (trash) management in cities. Her academic background is in Environmental Engineering (BS, Cornell University; MS, UC Berkeley) and Energy and Resources (MS, PhD, UC Berkeley). She has worked with local NGOs on small-scale water treatment in Bangladesh, Mexico, and India, and on solid waste management in Colombia. Her dissertation explored the climate mitigation benefits of reuse as a waste management strategy for cities. She focused on the environmental trade-offs from informal recycling in Bogotá, Colombia, where her research was funded by a Fulbright Fellowship. She is generally interested in studying and catalyzing the use of waste as a resource, and feels very lucky that in the World Bank’s Cities and Climate Change group, she can explore two fascinating modern phenomena: garbage and cities
Blogging on: Sustainable Cities
- 11/26/12 Global youth assert their visions for the city of 2025
- 07/16/12 What Katherine Boo’s book tells us about the modern city: garbage has more mobility than citizens do
- 06/28/12 From one billion cars to one billion bicycles
- 05/03/12 Collaborative consumption – a trend for the young, the hip, the urban
- 02/21/12 Spaceship city: drinking wastewater, and going back to the future
Blogging on: Sustainable Cities
- You can rent evening gowns /party dresses
- You can even rent computer power
- Short term versus long term thinking
- Ride-sharing growing in the US
- Public transit and bicycles - a symbiosis
- People want services, not objects
- Not just the youth?
- DC's bike share program is most successful in the country
- A superhighway for bicycles in Denmark
- A cycling boom