GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2020
Don't miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, "Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism." Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14. Circularity goes digital. EDT May 18.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
With Google’s online mapping function, commuters could plot the best way to get from A to B and then, through the app, procure or book the transportation modes that fit the route and the users’ preferences. Reprinted with permission from Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022). .
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Daniel Burrus
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Despite the apparent trade-off between privacy and efficiency, authorities across the globe are intent on becoming known for achieving smart city status and for the right reasons. Many large companies are involved in making cities smart, including Cisco, IBM, and Siemens. The post Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?
Stacey Higginbotham
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
I always thought the project to build a smart city on a chunk of Toronto’s waterfront was a techno-utopian pipe dream without a clear understanding of what it means to engage with the public, and that’s the sense that I get in reading this brief interview with Josh O’Kane, a journalist who wrote a book on Sidewalk’s failure.
Stanford Social Innovation
JUNE 16, 2022
As Simone Browne demonstrated in her book Dark Matters , contemporary tech-enabled surveillance practices are an extension of the long history of policing Black life in the United States from slavery onward. What if, sometimes, the answer isn’t technology?
Axis Communications Sustainability Blog
MARCH 25, 2019
Overwatch and ground level network cameras can increase safety for vehicles and pedestrians and improve the overall experience for businesses, visitors and residents in smart cities. How do they do this? He also educates on emerging trends and delivers an industry intelligence feed on Twitter (@stevesurf).
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 23, 2022
While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”
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