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For many cities, it's a familiar story. Growth is a good thing. It means more and more people are attracted to your city. But it also means city governments need to come up with the resources to expand and improve services to meet the expectations...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
As the world population explodes, so does the amount of trash generated. In fact, just this decade, the amount of waste generated worldwide could double.Below you’ll read about several cities that are putting the brakes on that wasteful growth. As...
Article - 04/06/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Washington, D.C. officials have developed the strategies that will help them achieve their long-term vision for a truly connected smart city. Now, working with Council Lead Partner Cisco, the district is taking the next step: building the framework...
Article - 10/28/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Transportation, Waste management, Connectivity
Collecting trash from public places using a traditional paper-based scheduling and tracking system – and sometimes by using intuition and memory – isn't the most efficient way to stay ahead of accumulated trash. In January, Edinburgh city officials...
Article - 09/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.Siemens offers new power grid automation systemCouncil Associate Partner Siemens is marketing a new telecontrol and power grid automation system intended for use in distribution network automation,...
Article - 09/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners...Schneider Electric, Black & Veatch chosen for military advanced microgrid projectCouncil Lead Partner Schneider Electric and Associate Partner Black & Veatch have been chosen to develop one...
Article - 07/12/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
According to the media, there is a recycling crisis. Some recyclers are losing millions and closing facilities. Some materials that used to be valuable aren’t any longer. Packaging trends have made others more expensive to reuse.But people WANT to...
Article - 05/25/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
IBM, Cisco and Microsoft ranked as the top three smart city suppliers by Navigant ResearchCouncil Lead Partners IBM, Cisco and Microsoft were named the top three smart city suppliers in the recent Navigant Research Leaderboard Report. These smart...
Article - 05/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Waste management, Connectivity
If your city is dirty, there are a lot of reasons why you need to clean it up. Trash piles attract rodents, creating a public health problem. Filth can also make your city less attractive for economic development.Illegal dumping not only makes the...
Article - 03/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
With city populations expected to grow at an increasing rate for the next 10 years or so, cities are doing everything they can to keep up with the demand for improved and expanded services and a better quality of life -- and do it while...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Waste management
Most cities are trying to do a better job at managing resources such as water, power, gas and waste. And most cities are trying to find jobs for the chronically under-employed. Here's an idea from Veolia that combines the two. Rather that use old-...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Upward Mobility, Economic development, Waste management
Every time you throw something away, you’re throwing away money. And collectively, we’re throwing more away than ever. A troubling World Bank report finds that by the turn of the century, we’re on pace to triple the amount of solid waste we are...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
By David Post, Executive Manager, Global Smarter Cities, IBMThe combination of surging population growth and rapid urbanization continue to place stress on a wide range of city services. In addition to pursuing innovative solutions in areas...
Article - 02/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
At first glance, it may not seem like a big deal that some chemicals and a few bugs from the hospital wind up in our water. That's what treatment plants are for, right?Yes, but a lot of the chemicals that have been found in wastewater -- like...
Article - 01/21/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Health and human services, Waste management, Water and wastewater
Envision America involves a year-long commitment in which representatives of selected cities will work with a variety of experts to develop their smart city projects, the technologies they need to accomplish them, determine costs and come up with an...
Article - 01/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Public safety and security, Telecommunications, Transportation, Waste management
Innovative smart cities solutions come from many sources. Scroll down to learn about competition-winning concepts for drastically reducing landfill waste, a model for zero-energy buildings, outstanding smart city initiatives -- and a new UK...
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Built environment, Waste management
While the New York Times and some American waste haulers wonder if recycling is worth it, across the Atlantic there’s no question that it is. In fact, one company that started as a trash collector now thinks of itself as a recycling business.Council...
Article - 10/14/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
You might imagine that anything that can “turn poop into power” might generate a lot of juvenile headlines, and Washington, D.C.’s newly upgraded wastewater treatment plant has certainly done that. But it’s also dramatically cutting costs, carbon...
Article - 10/09/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management, Water and wastewater
It's true of course. More people mean more garbage. So how are cities with limited space and limited waste management budgets supposed to deal with it? Longmont, Colorado and Houston, Texas are among those exploring what is considered by some to be...
Article - 08/26/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Waste management
Speaking at the Smart Cities Council India's first tour stop in Ahmedabad were, left to right: Camille Richardson of the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai; Pratap Padode, founder of Smart Cities Council India; Vishal Kundra of AECOM, and Neelesh Kelkar...
Article - 07/22/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Smart City Concepts, Economic development, Waste management, Policy and leadership