by Dave Hahn | Nov 29, 2012 | Announcements, Smart Cities
American cities have faced record-breaking droughts and superstorms throughout 2012, as well as a contentious presidential campaign that simultaneously and inexplicably ignored the topic of climate change. However, the reelection of President Barack Obama gives us the...
by Ryan Spies | Nov 27, 2012 | Smart Cities
The Living Building Challenge has been in existence for a few years now, and its goal was to strive past LEED in terms of exceptional performance for the built environment. Last week I had the opportunity to see the first of two buildings ever to complete the...
by Ryan Spies | Nov 20, 2012 | Announcements
Passion. Fire. Intensity. Collaboration. A fervor for sustainability and green building. That is what Greenbuild 2012 in San Francisco was all about. Granted, this was the first Greenbuild of my life, and I’m sure the past conference and expo’s have been filled with...
by Dave Hahn | Nov 16, 2012 | Announcements, Smart Cities
This is a weekly round-up of interesting blog posts and news from urban sustainability thought leaders around the world. As the NHS, the public health care system in the United Kingdom, works to put their health records online by 2015, the are looking to the US for...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Nov 14, 2012 | Announcements
At Meeting of the Minds in San Francisco this year we were grateful to have Brad Duguid, the Minister of Economic Development and Innovation for Ontario, Canada with us via Cisco’s TelePresence Technology to announce Toronto as the host city for Meeting of the...
by Dave Hahn | Nov 7, 2012 | Smart Cities
At a recent event held by the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, Peter Graf, the Chief Sustainability Officer of SAP, voiced his concern about the future of sustainability. One of the biggest challenges to sustainability, he said, was not just our...
by Dave Hahn | Nov 7, 2012 | Announcements
While on our scouting trip to Toronto this week for Meeting of the Minds 2013, we visited the Careerbuilder offices to talk about cities and urban innovation. Did you know that CareerBuilder recently acquired the big-data analysis company Economic Modeling Specialists...
by Gordon Feller | Nov 6, 2012 | Smart Cities
Click the video above to hear San Francisco’s Chief Innovation Officer, Jay Nath, talk about the Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation. There’s really nothing quite like it inside the hundred upon hundreds of US city governments: The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of...
by Dave Hahn | Nov 1, 2012 | Announcements
Meeting of the Minds co-founder and convener, Gordon Feller, spoke tonight at a Presidio Presents event at The Hub in San Francisco. The panel, which included Justin Lovitz of AutoDesk and Peter Graf from SAP, spoke about the panelists beginnings in urban...
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