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Concern that the proliferation of smart cites will widen the gap between persons with disabilities, aging communities and the rest of the population, G3ict and World ENABLED announced the global Defining Accessible Smart Cities Initiative last month...
Article - 07/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Wellness
With nearly 47,000 people living on the streets and in shelters in the city and county of Los Angeles, Councilmember Mike Bonin is no doubt right when he calls solving homelessness and the city's affordable housing crisis "a Herculean task." But as...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.New online renewable energy platform helps companies assess technologies, projectsCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric has released its New Energy Opportunities (NEO) Network, a collaborative...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Transportation
All cities are under incredible pressure to reduce carbon emissions, but how do you do that? Cities like Seattle, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Calgary and Alberta found a very simple-sounding answer: eliminate the need for people to own a car.UC...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Transportation
We frequently recommend that cities partner with the technology companies that can best help them with planning and deploying their smart city projects. The cities benefit from technology and other resources they likely couldn't develop (or afford)...
Article - 07/26/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Computing resources
Council Associate Partner Clevest specializes in state-of-the-art workforce management, with emphasis on the special needs of utilities. They've just released a smartphone app that points to the future we all want for utility field crews — indeed...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity, Instrumentation and control
About 1.2 billion people in the world now face intermittent to persistent water shortages and 500 million more are expected to join them in a few years. Many water treatment and delivery facilities are old and losing massive amounts of water. Water...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
We’re running out of water. We often blame this on population growth and droughts, but those aren’t the only reasons. The fact is, we waste a lot of it. As you’ll read below, each year, the U.S. wastes more than 2 trillion gallons of treated water...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
We could argue the U.S. has its head in the sand given the results of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Index released this week. One of the richest nations in the world, it ranked No. 25 -- far behind world leaders in Europe and elsewhere. In...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities
Whenever there’s a water shortage, it’s easy to fixate on the impacts that annoy us — the restrictions on washing your car or watering your lawn. But there are very serious consequences that put your economy at risk: the inability of farmers to get...
Article - 07/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater