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Methanol is typically produced from natural gas or coal, so for cities looking to make the transition to low carbon, what is the solution to going green? At a new waste-to-chemical facility under development in the Port of Rotterdam in the...
Article - 12/21/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Water and wastewater
We recently reported on a collaboration between the city of Baltimore and Council Advisor the National Resources Defense Council to reduce food waste, provide high-quality food for the hungry and other benefits (including for local economies) food...
Article - 11/09/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Health and human services, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
We don’t have enough water for everyone. Fourteen of the world’s 20 largest megacities already struggle with water shortages. And with the global trend of people moving to cities, the pressure is on to find ways to stretch water supplies.While...
Article - 11/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Industries such as energy, telecommunications and water and wastewater have a common problem. Their workforces are retiring at an alarming rate and replacements for those skilled employees are increasingly hard to find. The College of the Canyons (...
Article - 09/07/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater
At the moment, Finland is leading the way in Europe in terms of smart city development, using its resources to create new business models and efficient city planning. Start-ups and companies are assisting in this transformation of smart cities,...
Article - 08/14/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater
By Michael Di MatteoOur visions for smart cities — with lush vegetated buildings, pristine living streams and lakes, and resilience to weather extremes — will be realised only if we plan for our most precious resource: water.In this article,...
Article - 07/21/2018
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
Scroll down for quick news takes and developments involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Continental signs on to develop connected EVs in ChinaCouncil Global Lead Partner Continental will work with China's Didi Chuxing to develop connected electric...
Article - 07/12/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity, Security and privacy
Milan is one of a handful of cosmopolitan cities thrusting billions of euros into neglected neighbourhoods as part of a modernization plan that will make the city more attractive—and sustainable—than ever. Dubbed CityLife Park, the inspiration for...
Article - 06/18/2018
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Smarter water resources management for a quickly growing countyVirginia's Loudoun County is among the fastest growing counties in the U.S. — and industrial and...
Article - 06/14/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick news takes and events involving Smart Cities Council Partners.Cisco, Intel contribute to 2018 Olympic Winter GamesNBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, chose Council Global Lead Partner Cisco to provide IP video...
Article - 03/08/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Wellness, Energy, Water and wastewater
Several regions of the world are experiencing what environmental research organization World Resources Institute refers to as "extremely high" water stress, meaning they use more than 80% of their available supplies to grow food, supply the needs of...
Article - 02/01/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick news takes on Smart Cities Council partners.Sensus recognized by rural electric cooperativesFor the second consecutive year, rural cooperative utility leaders recognized Council Global Lead Partner Sensus, a Xylem brand, and...
Article - 12/08/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Energy, Payments, Transportation, Water and wastewater
Running an island is hard work. Sure, some like Ibiza thrive as vacation destinations and profit from tourism, but due to their insularity, many are heavily dependent on energy—especially fossil fuels. Islands are also faced with the challenge of...
Article - 11/29/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Malta's capital aims to be a carbon-neutral city by 2030. Following in the footsteps of other successful areas that are part of the Smart Sustainable Districts programme (such as Moabit West in Berlin and Les Docks de Saint-Ouen in Paris), Valletta...
Article - 11/22/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
As part of the six-year mySMARTLife project, European Lighthouse city Helsinki is looking to urban solutions to cut 70 percent of greenhouse gases. Along with Nantes and Hamburg, Helsinki is part of the mySMARTLife plan to transform cities into “...
Article - 11/15/2017
Active Region(s): Europe
Category: Built environment, Energy, Water and wastewater
Readers know that the Council regularly advises cities to partner with each other and the private sector to ensure successful outcomes for their smart city projects. If you attended Smart Cities Week in Washington, D.C. earlier this month you heard...
Article - 10/19/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Economic development, Energy, Telecommunications, Transportation, Water and wastewater
If you haven’t struggled with a water shortage yet, your time is coming. And likely soon.There is only a tiny fraction of states that haven’t struggled with this issue yet, and that number shrinks a bit each year. That’s why it’s critical to make...
Article - 09/14/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Water and wastewater, Analytics
Coimbatore with a decadal growth rate of around 20% is a rapidly growing city in the state of Tamil Nadu. Known as Manchester of India, the city is undertaking numerous initiatives towards improving basic services and quality of life of citizens....
Article - 07/26/2017
Active Region(s): India
Category: Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement
As crucial as water is to the health and welfare of their citizens, water utilities and their distribution networks are often overlooked. We expect it to be there and it always has been, so why worry about it? But about half of the world's...
Article - 06/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
The smart cities movement has been part of the arc of technological evolution. Now providing a framework for more liveable, workable and sustainable city making, the smart cities movement promotes these outcomes through the application of...
Article - 05/23/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Energy, Water and wastewater, Citizen engagement, Data management, Policy and leadership