This Week in Climate Change News

This Week in Climate Change News

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...
The Star of Greenbuild 2012

The Star of Greenbuild 2012

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...
Weekly Round-up of Smart City News

Weekly Round-up of Smart City News

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...
Creating Feedback Loops in the Built Environment

Creating Feedback Loops in the Built Environment

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...
Is CareerBuilder a City Builder?

Is CareerBuilder a City Builder?

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...
Presidio Presents at The Hub in San Francisco

Presidio Presents at The Hub in San Francisco

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...