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Sat, 2012-01-28 12:45 — mdmcdonald
The Smart Cities Collaboratory will be focusing on the issues associated with the use of distributed smart grids.

The mission of the Smart Cities Collaboratory will be to explore issues associated with the use of distributed smart grids, cloud computing and mesh networks for the purpose of improving health, human security, resilience and sustainability. 

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Climate migration is about to explode. Cities will bear the brunt.

Wed, 2022-11-30 10:14 — mike kraft
Climate migration is about to explode. Cities will bear the brunt. With planning, some mayors see an opportunity to flip a crisis into an opportunity. Dave Levitan Grid News
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A Chinese landscape architect advocates "sponge cities" to help counter climate change and flooding.

Wed, 2022-11-23 13:54 — mike kraft
As climate warms, a China planner advocates "sponge cities" BEIJING (AP) — To cushion the impact of extreme weather due to climate change, a Chinese landscape architect has been making the case for China and other countries to create so-called “sponge cities.” AP NEWS
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Pandemic opportunity? Pumping new life into cities.

Fri, 2021-01-08 20:38 — mike kraft
Pandemic opportunity? Pumping new life into cities. How cities are reclaiming streets from cars and easing inequality amid the pandemic. The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor
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California Challenges Cities to Compete to Cut Carbon Emissions

Thu, 2014-01-30 16:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

The California Air Resources Board wants cities to compete in fighting climate change by signing up residents to log actions they are taking to cut carbon emissions. Above, bicyclists during a morning commute on Market Street in San Francisco. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

latimes.com - by Tony Barboza - January 30, 2014

The California Air Resources Board thinks a little friendly competition might inspire Californians to scale back their driving, cut electricity use and take other steps to reduce carbon emissions.

The agency on Thursday announced a second round of the CoolCalifornia City Challenge, where cities compete to see how much they can cut their emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing climate change.

On the line is $100,000 in prize money that will go to cities based on how many people they sign up and how many points they earn in an online tracking system.

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sf.citi Helps Bring wi-fi to SF Parks

Wed, 2013-08-07 18:31 — Kathy Gilbeaux

sfciti.com - July 25, 2013

Yesterday, sf.citi participated in a press conference with Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell to announce an exciting new project to bring wi-fi to 31 parks, plazas and open spaces throughout San Francisco.  sf.citi is proud to be partnering with the City and member company Google, who is providing a $600,000 gift to fund this initiative.

Free wireless service will help close the digital divide in communities where Internet access is limited, as well as increase government efficiency by providing our city’s Recreation and Park Department’s staff with more tools to more effectively manage their recreation centers and community programs. 

Social Network for Emergencies to Launch in San Francisco

Tue, 2013-06-18 13:46 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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emergencymgmt.com - by Lauren Katims - May 7, 2013

Disasters are scary — there’s no question about it. But as much as they cause fear, they also bring people together, connecting communities in ways that few other incidents can. Focusing on those connections, rather than the catastrophe, is the theory behind the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management’s (SFDEM) new project SF72.org, created to enhance the city’s disaster preparedness.

Ecocities Emerging

Fri, 2012-08-03 23:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Ecocity Builders

Mission and Vision

Ecocity Builders reshapes cities for the long-term health of human and natural systems.

We develop and implement policy, design and educational tools and strategies to build thriving urban centers based on “access by proximity” and to reverse patterns of sprawl and excessive consumption.

Ecocity Builders and associates’ definition of “ecocity” is conditional upon a healthy relationship of the city’s parts and functions, similar to the relationship of organs in living complex organism. We are concerned with city design, planning, building, and operations in an integral way and in relation to the surrounding environment and natural resources of the region, utilizing organic, ecological and whole-systems lessons to actually reverse the negative impacts of climate change, species extinction and the destruction of the biosphere.

We believe the form of the city matters, that it is within our ability, and indeed crucial, to reshape and restructure cities to address global environmental challenges.

Researchers Use GPS Data to Speed Up Tsunami Warnings

Sun, 2012-05-06 23:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

In this Jan. 2, 2005 file photo, a wide area of destruction is shown from an aerial view taken over Meulaboh, 250 kilometers (156 Miles) west of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Researchers in the United States are hoping to use GPS data to speed up current warnings. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

U.S. seismologists currently testing new warning system

by Andrew Pinsent - CBC News - May 5, 2012

Scientists in the United States have been testing an advanced tsunami warning system using GPS data, combined with traditional seismology networks, to attempt to detect the magnitude of an earthquake faster so warnings of potential tsunamis can get out to potentially affected areas sooner.

The prototype is called California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), and is a collaboration between the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, whose focus is on environmental conservation.

The City as Lab: 21 Metropoles Prepare to Prototype

Sat, 2012-05-05 23:27 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Living Labs Global co-founder Sascha Haselmayer addresses the crowd in Rio de Janeiro

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good.is - by Zak Stone - May 4, 2012

In a megapolis like Mexico City, any planning initiative that moves citizens from cars to busses will pay off in reductions to traffic and air pollution. A major deterrent to using public transportation in the city? Comfort, according to Dr. Julio Mendoza, director of Mexico City's Institute of Science and Technology. Many would rather drive than experience that particular breed of public transportation-pegged anxiety: waiting helplessly on the street corner for a bus that feels like it won't ever arrive.

After participating in the Living Labs Global Award program, a competition designed to help cities solve planning challenges, the Mexican capital may have found a fix. In February, Mexico City and 20 other LLGA participants around the world put out an open call to companies to pitch solutions to important but fixable problems.

The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing Are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism

Fri, 2012-03-30 23:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Jeremy Rifkin - huffingtonpost.com - March 28, 2012

The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communication technologies converge with new energy systems. New energy revolutions make possible more expansive and integrated trade. Accompanying communication revolutions manage the new complex commercial activities made possible by the new energy flows.

Today, Internet technology and renewable energies are beginning to merge to create a new infrastructure for a Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) that will change the way power is distributed in the 21st century.

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