5 Ways The Smart City Will Change How We Live In 2012
Thoughts on how the future of the smart city will impact daily life and efficiency of our cities, from IBM’s Smarter Buildings division.
Chicago Plans A New Park That Dwarves All Other Urban Parks
The 140,000-acre Millennium Reserve isn’t so much a single park as a full scale revitalization of the cities’ dying industrial areas into parks and trails.
Half The Sky: Games For Change In The Developing World
A new series of games built for low-end cell phones hopes to make lessons about health fun for players in the world’s poorest regions. It certainly beats reading a pamphlet.
Not Your Normal Nightly News: Precise Forecasting To Maximize Wind Power
Wind power is great, when there is wind. New forecasting services aim to take some of the guesswork out of when and where renewable energy will come from, predicting wind speeds far enough in advance to save energy companies billions.
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Fog Harvesting Projects Hit The Big Time
Scientists have been fiddling with technology to convert fog to water for a long time. New projects are bringing the idea closer to reality.
Helping Intrapreneurs Break Free Of The Sustainability “Ghetto”
Too often, innovative thinkers at large companies are written off when their ideas involve making the company cleaner or more efficient. A program from the Aspen Institute is helping empower these intrapreneurs to effect change in their companies.
