Tag: Featured
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Traffic patterns are going to drastically be very different, says Micromobility expert
While some bike-sharing systems are being shut off to reduce mobility, others are experiencing a sudden increase of demand as people avoid mass transit Bico AI, a British company founded in 2018, provides intelligence solutions for the micromobility industry, directly to operators of scooter and bike sharing systems. Today provides business intelligence to some of […]
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To Map the City’s Retail Health You Need to Walk the Streets
Barcelona and Manhattan, two municipalities with the same population and retail model, share many similarities and a couple of things they can learn from each other. Municipalities, facing the need to understand the real economic activity of the city, and its retail composition, can’t rely on registration data, they need to do fieldwork and keep […]
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Tel Aviv Foundation CEO shares her view of what makes a Smart City
Tel Aviv, one of the early recipients of the Smart City Award, has expanded its leadership with the introduction of new tools, such as the new “City Coin” In 2014, Tel Aviv was awarded with the Smart City prize at the Smart City Expo World Congress. Since then, the city has expanded its leadership in […]
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Dirt Free Urban Gardening Through Sensors and Automation
Self contained hydroponic gardening systems are available for aspiring horticulturalists who want the benefits of plant life at home but who are missing the time or skills to manage them. In the old film Serpico, starring Al Paccino, there is a scene where he is gardening in his tiny New York townhouse yard. In a […]
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Biggest Ever Climate Demonstrations Taking Place in Europe
Today more than three million people have taken to the streets in support of the Global Climate Strikes Once again youth organisers led the strikes, as they have been doing since Greta Thunberg started the first school strike in August 2018. This time, however, they were joined by adults representing trade unions, charities and thousands […]
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“Why we support the Global Climate Strikes”
Young people are telling us that the climate emergency demands an emergency response. We couldn’t agree more. Mayor of Paris & Chair of C40 Cities, Anne Hidalgo; Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio; Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen today released the following statement in support of the […]
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Cyprus to Ban Moustaches and Fake Eyelashes in Schools
A proposal to tighten current school dress codes in Cyprus raises the question as to whether this will change student performance and behaviour or will it just be a makeover with no real results. A proposal to tighten the current school dress code in Cyprus raises the question as to whether this will change student […]
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Low Bandwidth Communications Help Keep Water Pipes Safe and Even Bring Honey to Our Breakfast Tables.
Amid demonstrations of high-speed 5G connectivity at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA Innovation City exhibition also presented a selection of use cases featuring LTE-M and NB-IoT low bandwidth communications. A common thread between being a beekeeper and managing Toronto’s water pipes is the need to accurately track certain parameters vital to […]
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Anne Hidalgo Calls Burning of Amazon Rainforest a “Crime Against Humanity.”
C40 Chair and Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, says “the lungs of our shared planet are on fire” Yesterday, Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris and Chair of C40 Cities, issued the following statement: “The lungs of our shared planet are on fire. The Amazon rainforest is one of the most important common goods of humanity, […]
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4.9 GW of wind energy added in Europe in 2019
Europe installed 2.9 GW of onshore wind in the first half of the year. Europe added 4.9 GW of new wind energy capacity in the first half of 2019, according to figures released today by WindEurope. The combined installations of new onshore and offshore wind capacity is up on the same period last year (4.5 […]