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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
Bees are dying and experts say it could have dire consequences for our food supply. By putting micro-sensors on bees and Intel Edison technology in their hives, Paulo de Souza is hoping to save them from extinction. This video is a fascinating...
Resources - 05/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Some 23 million Americans currently don't have access to grocery stores, according to this video from the California Academy of Sciences. Learn how young people are designing creative solutions to give more people access to fresh and healthy foods...
Resources - 04/11/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
The CloudFisher collects drinking water from fog without requiring energy. As this video explains, it is quickly installed, is extremely low-maintenance and all materials used are food safe.
Resources - 03/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Achieving the transition to "resource-smart" food systems will require better policy-making as well as a collaborative and proactive multi-stakeholder approach. Watch this UN video to see how resource-efficient technologies contribute to food...
Resources - 03/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
As part of its Smarter Cities Challenge, experts from Council Lead Partner IBM went to Birmingham, Alabama to help the city tackle its 'food desert' challenges and other issues, including economic development. Watch the video for information that...
Resources - 03/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
With food scarcity an enormous concern worldwide, stopping food waste is critical. In India, it's estimated 40% of food is wasted between farm and table. Learn in this Ulla Herbst video how India has focused on innovative food processing and...
Resources - 02/05/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
City Harvest has 30 years of experience making the fastest connection between a donor with excess food in New York City and a person in need. Now, it’s making an even bigger difference as you'll see in the video below. By improving internal...
Resources - 02/25/2015
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water