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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
- Companies have a strong role to play in pushing forward citizen apps for public good, a leading city innovation officer says.
- As the world’s population becomes more urbanized, city governments are looking to businesses and hackers to help them harness data and technology to fix social and environmental problems.
- Converging of the smart grid with smart buildings could yield enormous efficiency gains for both companies and utilities. What's holding it back?
- As a handful of Japanese automakers offer market solutions allowing electric batteries to lend backup power to homes, the future of comprehensive vehicle-to-grid technologies remains years off.
- Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka speaks with GreenBiz Group's John Davies at VERGE DC about the initiative she describes as the "Peace Corps for geeks" which puts developers and...
- Code for America offers a new form of citizen engagement promoting open data and how to build a successful, sustainable "civic hacking" community
- Texas-based demonstration project deploys the latest in smart grid technology to test home energy management systems, solar panels, EVs and new pricing models.
- An Oracle survey finds many utilities are overlooking the most important way to use smart grid data: to deliver value directly to customers
- Note to Congress: Aid to building owners will go a long way towards propelling our economy forward.
- New report and web portal offer best practices from 16 global cities to spur widepsread EV adoption through policy and incentive programs.
- This revolution will definitely not be televised -- it's being delivered via facebook apps, plus old-fashioned technology like letters that show customers how their energy usage compares to their...
- An urban climate change revolution is happening around us, with cities all over the world making real progress on reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. What's motivating cities to act on...
- Smart grid technologies and policies can help lessen the impact of climate change on electricity grids and water supply.
- Successful smart building projects go beyond energy efficiency savings to deliver significant operational improvements impacting a business' bottom line.
- eBay will expand its data center using fuel cells -- the largest such installation not implemented by a utility.
- A C40 report released on the eve of Rio+20 shows how mega cities are taking significant and measurable action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- How a brand new mini-city in China is rethinking the basic arrangements of car-centric metropolitan areas.
- Google, British Airways, FedEx and AT&T among global companies surveyed about the business complexities in dealing with energy market transformations.
- A recent global study of 4,000 facility and real estate executives found four organizational practices for improving energy efficiency.
- Two auto industry leaders see electric vehicles, car sharing, and alternative fuels like biofuels and compressed natural gas transforming the passenger vehicle landscape in the years to come.
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