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Dirty air has consequences — very serious consequences ranging from climate change to lung disease. In villages in India, clean-burning stoves are one key solution. The problem has been getting people to use them.Below, read about an innovative...
Article - 06/07/2018
Active Region(s): India, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Citizen engagement
Food loss and waste has been an issue for years. Canada's Zero Waste Council estimates more than a third of the food it produces goes to waste, and the numbers are similar in the U.S. and elsewhere. To put it in dollar terms, the U.S. Department of...
Article - 05/31/2018
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Food and Water, Citizen engagement
Urban farming isn't a new idea, but what Michigan State University (MSU) and the city of Detroit are doing may be a tactic cities working to become smarter, more sustainable and more livable should consider. The university and the city are focusing...
Article - 12/07/2017
Active Region(s): North America
Category: Food and Water
During a conference in Rome last month, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed after years of progress, world hunger has increased. In fact, FAO’s Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said the world is facing the worst food...
Article - 08/01/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
If it's hard as adults to make sense of what's going on in our world, imagine what kids must think of today's challenges – from famine and climate change to all manner of human atrocities. We can get a glimpse from Panasonic's Kid Witness News (KWN...
Article - 07/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
From the rapid growth of social impact investing to the emergence of artificial intelligence apps created by tech-oriented nonprofits, we're seeing some fascinating developments in the human services sector. Scroll down for a look at five that...
Article - 07/19/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water, Wellness
I learned a long time ago that when Dubai takes action, especially where smart technologies are concerned, it's going to be interesting. Consider the robotic police officer it introduced earlier this year – or its data-driven effort to become the...
Article - 06/27/2017
Active Region(s): North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Food and Water
Families struggling to make rent and pay utility bills often find there isn't a lot left in the budget to make healthy food choices. A box of mac and cheese, after all, is much cheaper than a piece of fish and some fresh vegetables – if the latter...
Article - 06/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Wellness
More than 22 million children in the U.S. may lose access to free or reduced-price meal programs when school lets out, according to Feeding America, the hunger-relief organization. Scroll down for a look at some initiatives that make free summer...
Article - 06/12/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
The new MealConnect technology platform that Feeding America recently launched helps rescue food that previously might have gone to waste -- maybe a small load of meat from a local butcher or a box of tomatoes from a farmers market. It's nice to see...
Article - 05/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
Access to healthy foods remains a challenge in low-income communities abandoned by supermarkets. Small corner stores don't typically stock many fresh fruits and vegetables. And spending time and limited funds on gas or bus fare to gain access to...
Article - 04/26/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
When the stakes are high – and they certainly are when it comes to solving food insecurity around the world – there's every reason to share success stories and innovative approaches that may inspire others. This week in our "Quick takes" series we...
Article - 04/05/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
In a column on food waste, Liz Goodwin of the World Resources Institute writes: "It takes more land than the size of China to grow all the food that’s never consumed." So it's easy to make the case that producing food that never makes it from farm...
Article - 03/28/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
You don't hear a lot about the behind-the-scenes operations that run major nonprofits like City Harvest's food rescue operations in New York City. But as the story below points out, making information technology systems work as efficiently as...
Article - 02/28/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
Lot of discussion about drones of late – and no argument they have a way to go to prove their legitimacy in a slew of scenarios. But what should not be overlooked by policymakers and the public is that drones can serve a humanitarian purpose; in...
Article - 02/27/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Upward Mobility, Wellness
Requests for emergency food assistance are on the rise – and hungry people are being turned away. In the past hunger may not have been an agenda item at city council meetings or school board meetings or corporate board meetings. Today it really...
Article - 02/22/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
Through its philanthropic arm, Google spends millions on worthy efforts around the world, but the one discussed below caught our attention because it is reportedly the first time a government -- in this case Australia's Department of Foreign...
Article - 02/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
In its Global Food Security Index for 2016, The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city-state of Singapore No. 3 behind the U.S. and Ireland as most food secure. That's an interesting statistic for a populous island that has very little farm...
Article - 02/10/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
With global food demand expected to double by 2050, world hunger is not likely to go away without intervention. Numerous efforts are underway on many fronts, of course -- from indoor agriculture that relies on cloud technology to mobile apps that...
Article - 01/31/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
Out-going USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack calls his agency's move to pilot online grocery ordering and payment from Amazon, Safeway and others a "potential lifeline" for SNAP participants who live in urban neighborhoods and rural areas where access to...
Article - 01/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
There are many approaches to reducing food waste and hunger underway around the world today – many involve technology, most involve compassion. So on the theory that one good idea often inspires another, you'll find some intriguing approaches we've...
Article - 01/17/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
We wrote about results of a survey of U.S. households that found many people are "shockingly unaware" of how they contribute to the food waste problem. Turns out the U.S. isn't alone; a poll last fall by a large UK supermarket chain revealed only 3...
Article - 12/10/2016
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
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
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
Mark Watts, Executive Director of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, raises an interesting point in a recent post on The Huffington Post blog. He says most citizens probably don't expect their mayors to be involved in policy-making about the...
Article - 06/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
Here's an intriguing concept out of Scotland – and one that other communities or neighborhood groups could easily adopt. The Meal Makers program uses a web-based platform to encourage people to prepare an extra meal for a senior in their community...
Article - 06/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
A recent CH2M newsletter gave a biofuel research facility the company is working on in Masdar City "cool project" status. We have to agree. As you'll read below, this first-of-its-kind facility uses desert lands irrigated by seawater to...
Article - 06/02/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water
At first glance, open data and sustainable agriculture may seem like a strange combination. But it makes perfectly good sense if you look at how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Council Lead Partner Microsoft put the two together....
Article - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Analytics, Data management
The world is already suffering a serious water shortage. The United Nations estimates that 20% of the world’s population live in communities where water supplies are already short. That number is double if you count temporary shortages.It’s a...
Article - 10/28/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Water and wastewater
Rare is the city that doesn’t have concerns about food production. In communities where there isn’t enough food, cities have to be part of the solution to find more. And with prolonged droughts in more places, more communities are in this category....
Article - 10/21/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Built environment, Health and human services
More than 170,000 refugees are crammed into a tiny camp in Kenya, a camp that’s so full, new arrivals wanting to stay there have been turned away for more than a year. Hunger and malnutrition are the norm. Children are separated from families....
Article - 09/04/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Economic development, Health and human services, Payments
Walk around California’s Catalina Island and you see plenty of water – sometimes water as far as the eye can see. But the island is one of those hardest hit by the extreme drought that is plaguing the state.A mandatory 25% reduction in water use...
Article - 09/02/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Built environment, Economic development, Water and wastewater
There is a lot pressure on Chinese farmers. China is home to 20% of the world’s population, but only 10% of the world’s arable land. With such a shortage of farmable land, it’s critical that farmers use land to its full potential. And China isn't...
Article - 01/15/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Food and Water, Health and human services, Connectivity
Farmer Craig Blackburn of Blackhills Farm in New Zealand, relies on Schneider Electric's SCADAfarm to manage water use. Learn in the video below how the system built on Azure IoT enables Blackburn to adjust his irrigation machines to the land's...
Resources - 08/01/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn realized that over 78% of students at their school receive free lunch, but often have no way of getting dinner. Using STEAM, the students created an app in hopes of supplying students with...
Resources - 05/02/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
The Mayor's Fund for London is calling on businesses and community organizations to support its efforts to reduce hunger and social isolation for disadvantaged children across London during school holidays. Matthew Ryder, Deputy Mayor for...
Resources - 02/21/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Europe, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
To understand factors that create food deserts, statistics about food deserts that may surprise you and the type of solutions that may be available to help people living in food deserts, click the link below for an infographic created by the...
Resources - 01/31/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
IBM Research is using the Internet of Things to help local farmers in Kenya optimize crop growth. As Dr. Kala Flemming explains in the brief video below, farmers using the EZ Farm IoT remote monitoring solution are seeing better quality produce and...
Resources - 11/17/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
A team from the University of Oxford hopes to lift five million people in rural Africa and Asia from water-related poverty by linking smart water pumps to the cloud. Learn in this video from Microsoft Research how Cortana Intelligence Suite is...
Resources - 11/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
By 2030, the demand for fresh water is projected to outpace supply by almost 40%. With a goal of moving companies to net-zero water usage, Ecolab and Council Lead Partner Microsoft are taking on the world’s water challenges. Watch this short video...
Resources - 06/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water