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VERGE
What happens when four massive technologies (energy, information, buildings, and transportation) collide? An unprecedented opportunity for business and sustainability? We call it VERGE. Check out VERGE news, insights, and events highlights below.
All Items About VERGE
- IBM's Dave Bartlett dishes on his efforts with the company's Smarter Planet campaign and why he is so optimistic about his work.
- Mark "Puck" Mykleby discusses three key opportunities -- housing, agriculture and resources -- where sustainability and economics intersect.
- It's a research-heavy week here at ICYMI HQ, with studies detailing everything from profiles of ESG professionals to solutions for sustainable cities.
- Lack of data for building automation control systems can create a host of problems and cost organizations money.
- New technologies that enable billions of devices to collect and analyze data can help systems operate with startling efficiency.
- In this Q&A, the author of "The Upside of Down" shares how his concept of societal resilience can help companies prepare for change.
- Data analytics, mobile apps will be central to success car-sharing networks and other sustainable transportation alternatives.
- Large commercial and residential buildings must report annual energy and water use, but aren't required to act on the results.
- Implementing a measurement and verification plan is essential to meet facility sustainability goals.
- Want proof that the smart-grid ecosystem is alive and well? Nest Labs' news that it has signed partnerships with some of the US's biggest utilities should suffice. But more innovation is...
- Smart, connected buildings currently promise more than they can deliver, at least if we don't pass the baton properly from design teams to operations teams.
- Chinese cities are experimenting with ways to maximize EV development and deployment, green building and a locally tailored carbon market.
- SAP says it will make its car-sharing app, which saved the software giant more than $5 million since it was deployed two years ago, publicly available.
- New technology by NRG Energy, called eV2g, enables electric cars to feed electricity back to the grid -- and their owners to make money in the process -- for the first time.
- Cities such as San Francisco, Stockholm and Adelaide, Australia, aim to reduce their waste to zero, but measuring and comparing their progress proves complicated. A new tool may help.
- The maker of intelligent sensor technology that increases energy efficiency in buildings has raised $20 million in its latest round of funding.
- This week we find good green news from some of the world's biggest companies, ways to green cattle ranching, and one last, supremely bad Earth Day pitch.
- Despite some big gains, most high-tech companies still lag on clean power adoption and political advocacy for clean energy policies.
- Over the past two years, the social network giant has improved average efficiency by 38 percent.
- Technology's potential to drive behavioral change in buildings -- and thereby improve costs, effectiveness and efficiency -- is vast. Here are some tips for getting the most out of building tech.
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