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Sustainability
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New Year Resolution: Entrust Your Money With Banks Committed To Good
Where Hollywood celebrities bank isn’t typically Equity Factor column news. But a recent financial move by actor and…
2017-01-06
Sci-Fi Cities & Mega Cities Of The Future, As Imagined Or Not?
Will we live in buildings made out of waste, heavily surveilled smart cities, or maybe floating communities designed…
2016-05-30
An Ethical City : An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Or Has Long Been Delayed)
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central…
2016-03-10
10 Cities That Are Shaping The Future Of Urban Living
Cities are frequently at the front line of innovation when it comes to addressing the changing problems of…
2016-03-03
Beautiful Cities With Gardens Or Lovely Gardens With Cities
The government is investing more than £300m in building what George Osborne has described as the first “proper”…
2016-01-26
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
2016-01-13
How A Large-Scale Solar Deployment May Look Like
Researchers are examining measures to ensure a reliable future power system. Deploying solar power at the scale needed…
2016-01-08
It Is Obvious! Climate Change Needs Broadest Collaboration
To achieve the kind of environmentally sustainable future we will want our grandchildren to inherit, we need everyone…
2016-01-05
The Top 3 Smart City Trends To Expect In 2016
Predictions from research firm IDC revealed three particularly interesting trends emerging around the smart cities movement. For the…
2015-12-29
Why Sustainability & Unbridled Growth Is A Match Made In Hell
Can Australians be sustainable and enjoy endless economic growth? It’s not likely. Steve Hatfield-Dodds argued that sustainability was…
2015-12-01
How A New York Urban Farm Is Fighting Big Oppressive Food Systems
On a small farm in Grafton New York, a group of people are dismantling oppressive food systems in…
2015-11-24
Microsoft + Urban Agriculture = An Amazing Harmony
There’s a quiet, green revolution growing in the middle of Microsoft’s Café 34. Under plasma lights, lettuce thrives…
2015-11-23
World Cities Day 2015 : Better City, Better Life
The United Nations has every 31st of October as World Cities Day. The Day is expected to greatly…
2015-10-31
The Top 20 Cities Embracing Solar Energy
While giant new solar farms located in rural areas and deserts have been grabbing the headlines lately, America’s…
2015-10-21
A 21st Century Smart Metrics Guide For Smart Cities
Smart cities make sense: they waste less, offer better quality of life and ensure a brighter future for…
2015-10-09
The New Tool Helping Cities Build Sustainably
Before constructing new infrastructure, government agencies are starting to evaluate projects’ potential economic, environmental and social impacts first…
2015-09-29
The Hard Work Of Pope Francis’ Balancing Act
On his first visit to the United States, as well as addressing a joint session of Congress, Pope…
2015-09-22
How Can We Live Within The Means Of Our Planet?
We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians,…
2015-08-27
How Charlotte Takes Action For Their Smart City Initiative
There’s been much discussion lately about the potential of “smart cities” and connecting data to help make communities…
2015-07-29
How Successful, Leading Cities Solve Problems Globally
“How do some of the most successful, leading cities in the world solve their problems? They steal the…
2015-07-23
How To Create A Sustainable Community With Public Works
Communities both big and small are having a sustainable makeover in order to reduce energy demand, utilise renewable…
2015-07-14
Why Top Executives Insist On Sustainable Buildings
In 2000, sustainable building practices were thought of as “nice to have” policies that were largely relegated to…
2015-06-29
Why Sustainable Cities Are Centres Of Culture And Purpose
Cities have long been centers of innovation and economic might, and the information economy has coincided with a…
2015-06-22
Sustainability Should Take Priority Over Growth
The WorldWatch Institute, an independent research organization that focuses on energy, resource and environmental issues, released State of…
2015-06-19
World Class Sustainable And Unique Building Designs
The 12 world class sustainable building designs are featured in a new infographic created by Classic Window Replacements…
2015-06-10
How A Giant Windwheel Turbine Can Be Your New Home
Instead of tilting at windmills, how about living in one? The Dutch Windwheel is a giant proposed wind…
2015-06-10
The 9 Limits Of Our Planet & How We’ve Raced Past 4 Of Them
Johan Rockström says humanity has already raced past four of the nine boundaries keeping our planet hospitable to…
2015-06-08
5 Ways To Build A More Sustainable Hospital
An earthquake can have positive side effects. Like in 1994, when, in response to an earthquake that damaged…
2015-06-03
How Fast Should Development Cycles Be?
Having lived and worked in both Singapore and London, I’ve experienced first-hand the very different pace of projects…
2015-05-23
Step Inside The 10 Best Green Buildings of 2015
When the American Institute of Architects first started handing out annual awards for sustainable architecture 19 years ago,…
2015-05-15
Build Stadiums To Last
In the end, all buildings are temporary. A poorly conceived or badly constructed building will quickly need…
2015-05-09
Cities Save The Earth From Humanity
Can humans grow enough food, produce enough energy and still preserve some of the last refuges of other…
2015-05-09
What Will A Smart City Look Like In The Future?
By 2050 there will be five billion urbanites, but, with pressure on resources and climate disruption, how will…
2015-05-06
Quirky Ideas For More Sustainable Cities
City living has many upsides, but a sustainable lifestyle is increasingly not among them. Pollution, traffic and loss…
2015-04-30
LA’s pLAn : From Smog & Sprawl To A Green Sustainable City
Los Angeles is known around the world as the home of Hollywood stars, sunny beaches and a high…
2015-04-18
Where Is The World’s Greenest City?
Bristol is the ‘green capital’ of Europe, but its predecessor Copenhagen comes top in a Europe-wide index. Curitiba,…
2015-04-13
Water Must Drive City Planning
Six of the ten largest US cities are located in the arid southwest region. Would that be the…
2015-03-13
The 10 Most Sustainable Cities That Will Thrive As The World Crumbles
A new ranking looks at three factors that go into making a city successful: people, planet, and profit.…
2015-03-09
Regenerative Urban Development As A Prerequisite For The Future Of Cities
A new urban agenda is needed to recognise the value of natural capital and to understand the cost…
2015-03-03
Innovation In Energy Will Drive Sustainable Cities
Urbanisation makes cities a main focus for environmental policy. Digital technology and innovation will enable a better quality…
2015-02-26
Biometric Data And Smart Cities
Using information to track individuals’ behaviour and interactions in cities could be used to redesign systems from healthcare…
2015-02-23
Piezo Technology : The Power Of Footfall
It’s called piezo technology and it enables scientists to tap energy from many sources: roads, railways – and…
2015-02-20