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It's the reality so many cities know all too well. Urban populations are growing and that means more people depending on them for essential city services, whether it's mass transit, public safety, energy, water or the other services that make cities...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Scroll down for quick takes from Council partners.An innovative microgrid partnership for Siemens and LO3 EnergyCouncil Associate Partner Siemens will work with New York startup LO3 Energy to jointly develop microgrids that enable local energy...
Article - 11/22/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Energy, Transportation, Water and wastewater
For those of you who remember collecting pennies for UNICEF as kids, you may find the modern-day UNICEF quite interesting. It's using its 190 offices, 12,000 staff and a VC-style investment portfolio to source and support startups that more...
Article - 11/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
Our story summarizes new research that should interest city officials, particularly those in coastal communities subject to frequent damaging storms. In addition to explaining why wetlands are useful in disaster situations—and this is a key takeaway...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Water and wastewater, Policy and leadership
Microgrids do more than simply provide stand-alone emergency backup power. They can help communities integrate renewable energy resources and energy storage, decentralize their sources of power while maximizing those assets and help ensure that...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy
In most cities, the question of a natural disaster is not typically a question of “if,” it is a question of “when.” Since you can’t prevent it entirely, the best you can do is to try to mitigate it and help your community recover quickly.The latter...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
Even more than electricity, cities need clean water. People can’t live without it. So what are you doing to ensure your water is safe? If you’ve been relying on luck, you have to look no farther than Flint, Mich., to see what can go wrong. Perhaps...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Water and wastewater
In a natural disaster, your roads and bridges are critical lifelines. And they may be at greater risk than they ever have been before. The climate is changing, our storms may be changing too. Some models suggest that severe storms may become even...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment
The UK's largest food bank network reports that last year was its busiest year ever recorded – but the number of emergency food parcels The Trussel Trust has handed out already this year suggests that record may be broken. It's a worrisome trend in...
Article - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
A charity in Bolivia is using a social media strategy to bring joy to lonely seniors by recruiting young people to engage with them. With an aging global population, it's a compassionate model worth exploring elsewhere – a way to promote social...
Article - 11/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
As Nancy Curby of Feeding America puts it, "Every dollar a food bank saves on utility costs becomes a dollar that helps to serve more families who face hunger." That says enough about the value of the water and energy efficiency pilot that Southface...
Article - 11/14/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Food and Water
We can't help but like the idea behind the Not Impossible Awards, a new program from Not Impossible Labs in partnership with the United Nations Foundation and World Bank's Connect4Climate initiative. The awards will focus attention on projects and...
Article - 11/13/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility
Predictive policing, the process of using data and analytics to anticipate where and when crimes will occur, has taken a lot of heat from critics who say it encourages discrimination against certain segments of the population and racial profiling....
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security, Analytics, Data management
While local funding options like tax measures and municipal bonds may be available to help police departments finance new and enhanced programs, that's not always the case. Federal agencies can often fill in those frustrating budget gaps. — Doug...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
One message that came through loud and clear on Nov. 8 is that voters from coast to coast support efforts to help the homeless and build more affordable housing units in their cities. And in many cases they're willing to dig into their pockets to...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Shelter
If you asked your residents what their biggest concerns are, public safety would likely be at nearly the top of the list. That’s true for most every major city. And providing it is a tough job.A new survey of Washington, D.C., residents highlights...
Article - 11/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Public safety and security
Leaders struggling to do more with less should not ignore the benefits the Internet of Things (IoT) brings to internal government operations. Read about the many benefits IoT offers local governments and citizens in a new white paper from the...
Article - 11/08/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Connectivity
Governments need to treat opioid addiction as an illness, not a criminal act, the UN's chief of drug prevention said during a recent conference in Baltimore. Today opioid addicts are discriminated against and victims of stigma, Dr. Gilbert Gerra...
Article - 11/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Security experts have been warning us about for years: increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks are coming — and more of them. A recent study and last month's denial of service attack that shut down several high-profile websites underscore how...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Telecommunications, Connectivity, Security and privacy
The project outlined in the release below is a good example of how smart, sustainable technologies, the right partners and careful but innovative planning can do far more than simply provide clean, reliable renewable energy for a facility. They can...
Article - 11/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America
Category: Built environment, Energy, Transportation