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Amid growing climate impacts, the City of Lakes is fighting back with a citizen-backed action strategy.
by Mike Hower
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Every four years, billions of dollars are poured into construction projects for the Olympic Games. Promises about sustainable development and protecting the environment follow. But host cities struggle to reach the goal.
by Mike Hower
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Vancouver has a long history of environmental activism, and the city has made major strides in improving urban sustainability. Now, it's working on resilience.
by Mike Hower
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Brew City is removing financial barriers, embracing partnerships and touting a 'new triple-bottom-line' ethos.
by Mike Hower
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Climate change is turning up temperatures in sunny San Diego, creating an array of health and water challenges for the regional economy. Here's how businesses are dealing with it.
by Mike Hower
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EPA chief McCarthy and Land O'Lakes CEO Policinski joined mayors and other leaders to swap strategies for resilience.
by Mike Hower
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Don't get too excited about the death of the yearly corporate sustainability report. Soon reporting will be always on, wide open and searchable, says the Global Reporting Initiative.
by Mike Hower
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The limelight is on nation-states at COP21, but cities around the world are getting serious about climate action.
by Mike Hower
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Amid all of the heavy talk about innovating to better the world through technology, some strange stuff happened at VERGE 2015.
by Mike Hower
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As the cost of solar goes down and the capacity of energy storage goes up, microgrids are challenging the traditional utility model, which some utilities see as an opportunity.
by Mike Hower
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More data points exist than we can count. The more people can see data, the more people can use it to solve the world's biggest problems.
by Mike Hower
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How can cities move from 'talk to walk” and scale up resilience projects? Business and government leaders shared lessons at the VERGE City Summit.
by Mike Hower
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First-time energy customers in emerging markets will be served better and faster with efficient power systems, according to a new World Bank report.
by Mike Hower
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Miami is one of the most at-risk cities in the U.S. for climate change fallout, but surprisingly little has been done to bolster resilience.
by Mike Hower
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Copenhagen, Johannesburg and Singapore are among the stars of a new report that touts better transportation, buildings and waste management to generate massive savings.
by Mike Hower
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A research and design firm has a plan to remake Atlantic City's ailing economy to become a global center for research on resiliency.
by Mike Hower
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Scientists can’t be everywhere to measure air pollution. Thanks to these developments, they may not have to be.
by Mike Hower
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Mobile phones and big data help conservationists stop poaching, but they also let unwitting tourists accidentally lead poachers to endangered animals.
by Mike Hower
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As Capitol Hill idles on climate issues, the District of Columbia is taking decisive action on emissions cuts — starting with a citywide green building campaign.
by Mike Hower
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The German Climate Computing Center is now using IBM's data analytics technology to manage the world’s largest cache of climate simulation data.
by Mike Hower
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By 2050, 2.5 billion more people will live in global cities — 90 percent of whom will reside in Africa, Latin America or Asia. But how do these less-developed urban centers fit into the hype about smart city technology?
by Mike Hower
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The American South isn’t exactly known as a bastion of sustainability, but Atlanta is looking to lead the way toward widespread regional change — a role it has played historically.
by Mike Hower
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Chicago's CSO describes the Windy City's comprehensive strategy for improving sustainability and resilience.
by Mike Hower
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See how the combined strengths of governments, businesses and non-profits are addressing some of the world’s social and environmental problems.
by Mike Hower
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Kenya's tech hub is developing technologies to solve local problems with global impacts.
by Mike Hower