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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

because I had won that award at the White House for sustainable development and I am an academic to them, which they respect. So, I prefer wise buildings to smart buildings because we can go beyond statistical significance into a natural intelligence. So, I just see the obvious, like when I first said "waste equals food."

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

Beginning in the mid-2010s, citizens groups, entrepreneurs and academic institutions pushed Dutch policy-makers and companies to swap out the top-down approach in favour of a more grass-roots philosophy that features extensive public engagement, citizen-science projects and applied research. . used toilet paper).