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Duke Energy has chosen Verizon Wireless to provide the telecommunications network that will connect the digital meters, signs and media players that will be used in Envision: Charlotte, a first-of-its-kind, public-private collaboration to make the commercial buildings in Charlotte’s urban core more energy-efficient. Using digital energy technologies connected by
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IBM has gone live with a free web resource called City Forward that’s designed to improve the quality of life in cities of all sizes around the world by helping officials make sounder and more scientific decisions on city services. The site gives policymakers, citizen-advocates and the public a
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Arup and Mitsui & Co Ltd have signed an agreement to pursue the creation of a joint venture that will focus on the development of low-carbon projects around the world. The joint venture will offer municipal governments and corporate clients the ability to plan, engineer and implement measures to help
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Siemens Energy plans to present four selected projects that can provide energy-efficient and eco-friendly power for megacities as part of the “Metropolitan Solutions” exhibit at next month’s Hanover Fair. The featured projects include: * An offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary that can provide a sustainable power supply for
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Smart metering firm Itron Inc. has made a three-year commitment to the Frontier Project, a water and energy conservation demonstration project in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The Frontier Project, a 14,000-square-foot LEED Platinum demonstration building, is aimed at showing individual homeowners, commercial builders and sustainability advocates the latest methods and
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Eight finalists have been named as contenders for the Philips Livable Cities Award, a global initiative designed to generate practical, achievable ideas for improving the health and well-being of city-dwellers across the world. The winners will be announced on 27 April, with €75,000 going to the overall winner and
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Cisco will work with Barcelona to launch a pilot program aimed at transforming the city into a “blueprint” for sustainability. The initiative will use technology to help achieve Barcelona’s 2020 vision of becoming a global reference model for sustainable urban development. Initial estimates from Cisco and the Barcelona City
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If sustainability efforts in 2010 can be summed up in one sentence, it’s this: “Some of us are trying — really hard in some cases — but it’s still not good enough.” Consider the threat of peak global oil production. After years of all but ignoring the risk of peak
