by Paul Batistelli | Jun 24, 2014 | Smart Cities
Getting food from farms to your table is a huge energy expense. According to a National Resource Defense Council report, it consumes 10 percent of the United States’ energy budget, guzzles 80 percent of the nation’s total water consumption and uses 50...
by Justin Bibb and Ian Brown | Jun 23, 2014 | Smart Cities
This blog post is a part of a three part series conducted by the Morris Strategy Group examining how city leaders can develop new strategies to attract and retain Millennials. Don’t try to sell me on the suburbs. I’m a Millennial, between the ages of 25 and 34. As...
by John Addison | Jun 23, 2014 | Smart Cities
Your pension plan and bond funds just took a hit when Barclays downgraded U.S. electric utility bonds. Renewables and energy storage are disrupting the market and those risks need to be in the bond prices according to Barclays. Wall Street may bet against utilities...
by Shaina Kandel | Jun 19, 2014 | Smart Cities
The sharing economy is gaining momentum on the back of social and economic trends: the recession incentivizing sharing resources instead of owning goods, technology enabling transparency and social connection, and climate change increasing awareness about resource...
by Council of Canadian Academies | Jun 17, 2014 | Smart Cities
It’s a Wednesday morning in 2025. As you enjoy the last few minutes of sleep, data gathered from sensors in your mattress help make adjustments to the time of your alarm, and gradually turn on the lights in your room. When your alarm does sound, you are already nearly...
by Iemke Idsingh | Jun 16, 2014 | Smart Cities
A balancing act Society today is modeled after the same principles established centuries ago. The scale of our activities is certainly different but the underlying mechanisms are similar. Instruments have changed and the impact of human behavior is larger. The context...
by Meghna Tare | Jun 9, 2014 | Smart Cities
City budget deficits are far from rare. San Jose, Chicago, Phoenix and Las Vegas are just a few examples of cities confronting likely shortfalls in the upcoming fiscal year. A wave of cost-cutting, and in many cases conflicting, policy drivers awaits the...
by Federico Silva | Jun 4, 2014 | Smart Cities
The Cities Alliance has selected Know Your City as the theme of its 2014 Call for Proposals for the Catalytic Fund. For more information, please visit: http://www.citiesalliance.org/CATF-2014-Spotlight Cities of all sizes are growing and transforming; in Sub-Saharan...
by John Addison | Jun 3, 2014 | Smart Cities
“Her,” nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, demonstrates the power of artificial intelligence. In the film, “Her” is an operating system enhanced with expert systems, similar to the way that Android is enhanced with applications such as Google Maps. “Her” is also a...
by Shaina Kandel | Jun 2, 2014 | Smart Cities
It is increasingly clear that for growing urban populations, personal vehicle ownership is not a viable method of transportation. The laundry list of externalized costs from driving includes: air pollution, accidents, traffic congestion, noise pollution, roadway land...
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