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UAE smart city deploys smart strategies to become living lab

Smart Energy International

The end goal is to become a living lab to continuously improve upon its smart capabilities. As a smart city, Alnama makes use of various technologies and will support start-ups and businesses in its green-technology hub in the hopes of closing the loop between food, water, energy and waste.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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IoT satellite-based LoRa program and white paper launch

Envirotec Magazine

Telemaco Melia, vice president and general manager of EchoStar Mobile, said: “LoRa connectivity makes up 45% of today’s global IoT networks; it’s perfect for connecting low-powered ‘things,’ yet its reliance on terrestrial connectivity restricts its usefulness.

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Insights and Excitements from Our 2020 Pipeline

Elemental Excelerator

Here, we’d like to share with you some high-level data from our pipeline, and explore a few things we’re learning about what’s shaping the future of energy, mobility, water, food, and the circular economy. It’s definitely possible that we will look back at COVID-19 as the key that unlocked smart cities.”

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2nd International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy (Urban Growth 2020)

Eco-Business

The quest for the sustainable city has until recently focused on the efficient use of resources with the application of technical advances giving rise to the definition of SMART Cities. Water is required for agricultural purposes as well as by industry, in addition to its use by the general population.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)

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SDG17, coronavirus, and the battle for a collaborative future

Business Green

Dubbed Partnership for the Goals, the wide-ranging targets covering everything from technology to trade, capacity-building to multi-stakeholder partnerships, and data and monitoring to accountability, were developed in the same year as the Paris Agreement amply demonstrated the merits of multilateralism.