Smart Cities

Interactive Map: Are you one of the five million Americans at risk of rising sea levels?
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15 March 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Check out this interactive map to discover if your neighborhood is one of 3,000 US coastal towns, cities, counties and states that could be vulnerbale to rising sea levels …
New York City Launches Solar Mapping Tool for Building Owners
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16 June 2011 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
New York City has created a 3-D map that calculates how much sunlight hits a building's roof, enabling installers and building owners to size up of the solar energy potential …
Witness the Green Evolution of New York's Roofscapes
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8 June 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
New York's famous concrete jungle is adapting to climate change one rooftop at a time. Check out these three short videos on ClimateDesk.org, exploring green roofs, white …
What a Video of People Tripping Tells Us About Smart Cities
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2 July 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Here's an interesting blog post and video on slate.com on how mobile technology can get problems fixed, but first you need to know what the problem is.
The Top US Cities for Walking and Cycling
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31 Jan. 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
In a new report, 'Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2012 Benchmarking Report', theAlliance for Biking & Walking ranks all 50 states and the 51 largest US cities on …
The Future of Bike Sharing Schemes in the United States
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27 June 2011 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Bike sharing is a fledgling concept in the United States and has the tendency to be scattershot geographically. SO what's happening...
A Greener Strategy for New York’s Runaway Sewage
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19 March 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
New York State and city officials have committed $2 billion in public and private investment to new environmental techniques to help prevent the flow of untreated sewage and …
Minneapolis Shows Us What Bike Infrastructure Should be Like
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30 Aug. 2011 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Read this blog and watch the video to see how Minneapolis is encouraging cycling.
Top 10 cities to launch a start-up in the US
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29 Aug. 2012 — added by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
SmartPlanet.com gives a run down of the top 10 US cities based on total investment and average investment per start-up in 2011.
Imagine if you could see New York's carbon emissions
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4 Dec. 2012 — added by Rosalie Callway, CPRE London
Imagine if carbon wasn’t a formless gas, but rather a solid ball. We’d be forced to deal with our emissions problem much faster, because look at what would happen to New York …