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World peace. An end to poverty. Free and equal societies. High-level objectives like these are part of a far-reaching global plan the U.N. will ratify this week: the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The hope is that all of them will be achieved by the year 2030.

Test your knowledge of the global goals by taking our quiz. Let us know how you did in the comments section below - we'd love to hear your score!

Bummed out by the state of our world (and perhaps your quiz results)? Consider these uplifting U.N. stats: Since 1990, the world has cut the number of people living in extreme poverty in half. The rate of children dying before reaching age five has declined by more than half. And there are more girls in school.

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Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Global Development Goals?

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World peace. An end to poverty. Free and equal societies. High-level objectives like these are part of a far-reaching global plan the U.N. will ratify this week: the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The hope is that all of them will be achieved by the year 2030.

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Podcasts are a great way of staying in touch with the industry, hear about new developments, and learn something new. Best of all, it can easily be added to modern life because they can be fitted into many activities.

With vast amount of podcasts out there, it can be intimidating to choose if you are just starting out. Here's a list of a few geospatial podcasts if you love GIS and location-based technologies!

VerySpatial

The podcast is hosted by Jesse Rouse, Sue Bergeron, and Frank Lafone. Well-established podcast that discusses geography, geospatial technologies, and GIS's impact on digital daily lives.
http://veryspatial.com/

Geodorable
Two Kiwi guys talk about everything including news from the GIS industry, do interviews with practitioners, and even random acts of geospatial madness!
https://geodorable.com/
The Mappyist Hour

Geographer and Geo types talking about how incredible their profession is "after hours"
http://www.themappyisthour.com/

Speaking of GIS

A podcast by Kurt Towler. The podcast includes interviews with other geospatial practitioners and recaps of conferences.
https://speakingofgis.com/

Mapscaping

The new kid on the block doing interviews with industry leaders
https://mapscaping.com/blogs/the-mapscaping-podcast

S cene from Above

A podcast looking at the world of modern remote sensing and Earth observation. Fuelled by their passion for all things raster and geospatial, they aim to be a mix of news, opinion, discussion and interviews.
http://scenefromabove.org/

Directions Magazine

New location-based podcasts approximately every six weeks by another geospatial news outlet
https://player.fm/series/directions-magazine-podcasts

Cageyjames & Geobabbler

This monthly podcast by James Fee and Bill Dollins is about how to apply spatial technology to your workflows.
https://cng.fireside.fm/

Geographical Imaginations

The Geographical Imaginations Expedition & Institute is a growing multi-media public geography initiative designed to bring together academic and everyday geographical, or spatial, thinking.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/geographical-imaginations/id1386704057?mt=2

Women and Drones

A podcast dedicated to raising the profile of women in the UAS industry around the world.
http://womenanddrones.libsyn.com/

Did we miss any of your favourite geospatial podcasts? Let us know!

I fell in love with everything geo after travelling and living in many places in the world. For me, it's a fun and rather interesting lens to see the world through! We live in a time where technology makes the world so much smaller, and we have to leverage this to build a vibrant community.

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Geospatial podcasts you should be listening to - Geoawesomeness

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Email Tweet Share Share on Facebook Pin Pocket WhatsApp Telegram Podcasts are a great way of staying in touch with the industry, hear about new developments, and learn something new. Best of all, it can easily be added to modern life because they can be fitted into many activities.

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At the United Nations General Assembly this weekend in New York, U.N. member states are set to adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals. The goals are meant to guide development priorities around the globe over the next 15 years. Critics and supporters alike are declaring them to be highly ambitious - maybe even too ambitious.

The SDGs, as they've come to be called in humanitarian lingo, replace the Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000 and expire this year.

The MDGs dealt primarily with poverty, education and health in the poorest countries. The SDGs hit all of those topics but also tackle global inequality, environmental issues and access to technology.

Here's a rundown of the 17 goals and some of the key targets included in the 169 sub-goals. Here's where you'll find the complete list with all the sub-goals.
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
This is one of the most ambitious goals. It includes a target of having no one living in extreme poverty - less than $1.25 a day - anywhere in the world by the year 2030.
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
This goal calls for a doubling of agricultural production by small-scale farmers.
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
This SDG sets a target of getting global maternal mortality (the number of women who die each year during childbirth) down from the current rate of more than 200 per 100,000 live births to 70. Many African nations would need to dramatically improve conditions for pregnant mothers to reach this target. In South Sudan, for instance, more than 2,000 of every 100,000 pregnant mothers die each year as a result of giving birth.
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
The expiring MDGs called for universal access to primary school. The SDGs say that students everywhere should have free access to education through high school.
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
This goal aims to end discrimination and violence toward women and girls. It also calls for the elimination of child marriage and female genital mutilation.
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
This goal calls for toilets and clean drinking water for everyone.

It also calls for protecting and restoring natural water resources over the next five years.
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
This goal calls for universal access to electricity and more renewable energy.
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
This item sets an ambitious annual economic growth target of 7 percent per year for the poorest nations.
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
This goal calls for increased technological assistance from developed countries to poorer nations to modernize roads, dams, electrical grids and other infrastructure.
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries.
This target tries to address the growing gap that's emerged globally between the "haves" and the "have-nots."
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Say goodbye to slums. This goal envisions sustainable, livable urban centers with universal access to green spaces.
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
This section sets bold targets for cutting in half food waste by the year 2030 and over the next five years overhauling industrial waste streams.
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
This goal acknowledges climate change and then notes that the real work on this issue will come at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change later this year in Paris.
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
This goal calls for sustainable management of marine fisheries by 2020 and elimination of marine pollution by 2025.
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
This goal calls for the same protection of land that No. 14 demands for the sea.
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
In other words: We should all live in harmony. The goal also calls for an end to violence and corruption.
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
This final goal calls for rich nations to give more assistance to poorer countries and to help less developed nations progress.

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U.N. Dreams Big: 17 Huge New Goals To Build A Better World

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At the United Nations General Assembly this weekend in New York, U.N. member states are set to adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals. The goals are meant to guide development priorities around the globe over the next 15 years. Critics and supporters alike are declaring them to be highly ambitious - maybe even too ambitious.

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The US is a nation of immigrants.

Using data from the US Census Bureau, we found the country that was the most common birthplace for foreign-born residents in each state (excluding Mexico, which was the most common country of birth for immigrants in 32 states).

Many states have large immigrant populations from India.

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The US is a nation of immigrants from all around the world.

The US Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks millions of people every year detailed questions about their social, economic, and demographic situations. One of the questions asks respondents what their country of birth is. The Census Bureau pooled together survey responses from between 2013 and 2017, allowing the bureau's statisticians to publish estimates of how many people in the foreign-born populations of each state and the District of Columbia came from various countries.

The percentage of the population born outside the US varies widely from state to state. Among those immigrant populations, countries of origin also vary widely.

For 32 states, the most common country of birth among respondents who said they were born outside the US was Mexico. Therefore, the map above looks at the country other than Mexico that is the birthplace of the most foreign-born respondents in the survey.

India tops that list in 21 states. Several states have Canada as a major source of immigrants. Several Asian, African, and Central American countries also have large immigrant populations in various states.

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This map shows where each state's largest immigrant group comes from, excluding Mexico

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The US is a nation of immigrants. Using data from the US Census Bureau, we found the country that was the most common birthplace for foreign-born residents in each state (excluding Mexico, which was the most common country of birth for immigrants in 32 states). Many states have large immigrant populations from India.

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India Is Changing Some Cities' Names, And Muslims Fear Their Heritage Is Being Erased

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Tens of millions of Hindus took a ritual dip in the Ganges River this winter as part of the largest religious festival in the world - the Kumbh Mela. For centuries, the festival has been held in various cities in northern India, including Allahabad.

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193 United Nations Member States - Map Quiz Game: The ultimate geography test! From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the United Nations has 193 members. When the organization started in 1945, there were only 51 members. Membership went up during the 1970s when many newly independent countries joined, and most of them are in Africa.

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