The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced the availability of up to US$9.5 million for Compost and Food Waste Reduction (CFWR) pilot projects for fiscal year 2023. As part of USDA’s efforts to support Read More
The Department of Transportation has established a strategic partnership with the city of Austin, TX to facilitate innovative delivery and financing of infrastructure improvements. The Emerging Projects Agreement will provide funding of more than US$22 Read More
Urban-X – the NYC-based platform for startups reimagining city life – recently announced the 10 elected startups who will make up its 12th cohort. Over the course of the four-month program, the startups will receive Read More
Cross-sector collaboration is a common theme in smart cities. Implementing successful smart city partnerships require a complex level of engagement between government, industry, academia, and community advocates. While this is easily demonstrated with a Venn Read More
The Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, Innosphere Ventures and the University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering, Design and Computing (CU Denver CEDC) have named the 12 companies participating in the inaugural 2023 Smart Futures Lab Read More
West Virginia University’s Campus Food Garden is currently offering spring workshops to teach local residents how to grow a home garden in small spaces. Workshop topics include: seed starting, composting, and transplanting. “I feel that learning Read More
Vancouver, Canada’s Board of Parks and Recreation recently announced it is giving away 250 trees to people living in canopy-deficient areas of the city. The city has the goal of expanding its urban canopy cover Read More
A Bloomberg Philanthropies’ study has inspired the city of Louisville, KY to launch a pilot project inviting local artists to help make city intersections safer. The Bloomberg study found that streets with asphalt art saw Read More
After conducting a successful waste to compost recycling program in Queens – the city’s second most populous borough – the city of New York has plans to expand the curbside composting program to all five Read More
During the last two days of February 2023, Tokyo hosted its first global smart cities event, City-Tech Tokyo, bringing the ideal smart city model to life. Thousands of global participants from government, academia and industry Read More
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