Essex County Council and Hertfordshire County Council today announced that they are working together to pilot new smart city services. “Hertfordshire and Essex are pioneers of smart street lighting, and between them already use Telensa Read More
Researchers from the Connected Communities Research Lab at the Lancaster University Management School in Great Britain are proposing ways IoT technology could enhance and protect British National Parks. Professor Edward Truch, a Director of the Read More
The IOTA Foundation has recently partnered with Taipei City – the capital of Taiwan – to help it reach its smart city goals. The city will integrate IOTA’s blockless distributed ledger technology called ‘Tangle’ – Read More
Sue Nissen, one of the founding members of the citizen group StopOverSalting (SOS) in Minnesota, is supporting limited liability legislation that will reduce over-salting of roads and sidewalks. The proposed legislation, which is modeled on Read More
In the US, an excess of more than 500 million tons of demolition waste is shipped to landfills every year. In an attempt to solve this problem, Chris Maurer, Principal Architect with Cleveland-based redhouse studio, Read More
Smart Budapest, co-authored by Sándor Finta, Director of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Zsombor Barta, Head of Sustainability and Legacy, has been adopted by the Hungarian city as a road map to becoming a world Read More
A recent study conducted at the Parthenope University of Naples in Italy has concluded that planting 20 percent more trees in megacities would double the benefits of urban forests, such as pollution reduction, carbon sequestration Read More
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) government recently released The Smart City Blueprint for Hong Kong which maps out development plans for the next five years. The main policy objectives to pursue smart city Read More
It was recently announced that Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, is partnering with Waterfront Toronto to design a new kind of mixed-use, complete community on Toronto’s eastern waterfront. The project, called Sidewalk Toronto, Read More
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), Alberta Innovates (AI) and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) have recently announced $28.8 million Canadian in funding for cleantech projects across the province of Alberta. The eleven projects were chosen from Read More
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