Announcements
Schneider Electric’s approach to building and managing the smart city
A new article in The Guardian assesses Schneider Electric’s approach to the smart city. Being smart means a lot of things to Annie Xu Hongyan, the senior vice-president for the Smart Cities initiative at Schneider Electric, a French energy management company...
Smart work innovations – one living example in Amsterdam
Amsterdam Bright City is a place where active, ambitious students work side by side with experienced entrepreneurs in our custom built Smart Work Center or socialise together in our lovely Grand Café.
Ramping up Renewables: A New Report from Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors
A new report by Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors worth checking out: The US Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance (US PREF) has published a new paper examining how state-level Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) programs are making the US power supply more...
Sustainable Investing: Establishing Long-Term Value and Performance
An important report out today from Deutsche Bank: Sustainable Investing can be a clear win for investors and for companies. However, many SRI fund managers, who have tended to use exclusionary screens, have historically struggled to capture this. We believe that ESG...
New Report: Evolving Towards a Sustainable End-State
A new report from Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors We believe that the first phase of a long-term mega shift toward an end-state scenario of clean, domestic, sustainable and efficient use of energy, materials and environmental services is now firmly established...
Neal Peirce reports on Jay Nath, SFGov and Meeting of the Minds
After attending a Jay Nath’s Meeting of the Minds webinar, Neal Peirce reports on San Francisco’s open data and parklet programs for Citiwire.net, New City Rx: High-tech Innovation Merged with a Role for Citizens. An excerpt: San Francisco’s not alone in...
IT in Canada interviews Bill Reinert
After Bill’s presentation Changing Cities – Changing Cars, Mary Allen of IT in Canada Magazine interviewed Bill Reinert about the future of personal vehicles. An excerpt from the accompanying article: The underlying premise of the “Changing Cities – Changing...
Work-life balance coverage from CNBC
CNBC’s Rob Reuteman cites Meeting of the Minds co-founder Gordon Feller in his new article, Companies Embrace Telecommuting as a Retention Tool. An excerpt: [blockquote]Cisco Systems, with 65,000 employees in 92 countries, has saved $1 billion in the past 2.5...
IT in Canada interviews Nicola Villa at Meeting of the Minds 2011
IT in Canada Magazine interviewed Meeting of the Minds speaker Nicola Villa following his presentation, Is IT Innovation the Sustainability Game Changer?. Watch the video above to hear more of Nikola’s thoughts on the role of IT in urban connectivity and...
ReNew Canada asks: Will the Car Always Be King?
As part of their Meeting of the Minds 2011 coverage, ReNew Canada asks their readers: Should we be trying to further mass transit by tackling the last-mile problem or should we admit cars aren’t going anywhere and look for more efficient vehicles? The online poll...
Boulder’s DailyCamera.com Features Meeting of the Minds 2011
Boulder’s daily news website, DailyCamera.com, has included Meeting of the Minds 2011 in today’s edition. They included some nice words from the Mayor’s office and from Jennifer Judge, an MBA student at Colorado University....