by Blair A. Ruble | Oct 27, 2014 | Smart Cities
Several of the speakers at the recent Meeting of the Minds in Detroit – including Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh, Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken, together with several foundation and community leaders from Detroit itself — echoed one simple sentiment: “We aren’t...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 27, 2014 | Announcements
The Meeting of the Minds 2014 Final Report is now available. Download your PDF copy here: Download Final Report The final report includes statistics from the event and lead-up activities, a synopsis of the Detroit sessions with links to videos and slidedecks, media...
by Hannah Greinetz | Oct 22, 2014 | Governance, Society, Technology
Every so often, I find it important to reset and to re-envision what a successful future looks like. This article seeks to take a step back and revisit the fundamentals of what the building of a sustainable city requires. The footprint of cities is a heavy contributor...
by Bill Faulkner | Oct 21, 2014 | Announcements, Smart Cities
Over the course of Meeting of the Minds 2014 in Detroit, my fellow attendees and I heard from a number of subject matter experts in a variety of areas on the evolution of our urban centers. Although it’s difficult to succinctly summarize the learnings from the event,...
by Gordon Feller | Oct 20, 2014 | Announcements
The workshop’s welcome briefing from NextEnergy’s President – Jean Redfield – laid out a clear message for this workshop tour: the challenges facing clean/smart energy are, to a growing extent, converging with the challenges facing clean/smart mobility....
by Dave Hahn | Oct 3, 2014 | Smart Cities
Over the next few weeks we will process, archive and report on the take-aways, media coverage and videos from Meeting of the Minds 2014. While we work on presenting this material, we want to make the raw files available to our network. Below are PDF slideshows from...
by Hannah Greinetz | Oct 2, 2014 | Environment, Technology
The United States is the world’s top producer of waste, sending approximately 240 million tons of garbage to landfills annually. That’s about one quarter of the world’s waste, produced by about 5% of the world’s population. We’re...
by Roberta Gamble | Oct 1, 2014 | Smart Cities
Smart Cities are a great, burgeoning opportunity for all manner of vendors, from broad-smart-city-wide solution providers to small single-person start ups that leverage ever increasing data from city-based sources. It’s an exciting area that some companies are even...
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