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UAE smart city deploys smart strategies to become living lab

Smart Energy International

Saudi Arabian city Alnama is planning to become a smart zero carbon destination through its smart grid strategy and technologies. The end goal is to become a living lab to continuously improve upon its smart capabilities. At a building level, sensors will aim to play a key role.

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Transforming India’s Urban Landscape: Smart Cities Embrace Green Building Concept

Econaur

Introduction: India, a rapidly urbanizing nation, is at the forefront of revolutionizing its cities through the integration of smart technologies and sustainable practices. With the concept of smart cities gaining momentum, the country is now taking a bold step towards embracing the green building concept.

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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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Google and C40 cities launch carbon-free energy pilot

Smart Energy International

A new programme has been announced by Google and C40, a global network of mayors taking action to confront the climate and energy crisis, to explore and integrate the concept of 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE). The announcement sees C40 Cities join forces with Google to launch the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for Cities programme.

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Portable hydrogen cartridge prototype demonstrated for home and similar applications

Envirotec Magazine

A working prototype portable hydrogen cartridge is able to transport and supply hydrogen energy to power a broad range of everyday applications both in and outside the home. Toyota and Woven Planet are studying a number of pathways to carbon neutrality and consider hydrogen to be a promising solution with significant advantages.

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Tencent gets proposal from MVRDV for green smart city

AGreenLiving

After two years of development, MVRDV has unveiled its competition entry for Chinese tech giant Tencent’s next campus — a green and futuristic smart city shaped like a continuous undulating mountain range. MVRDV’s proposal envisions the Tencent campus as a grid of over 100 buildings topped with an undulating roof of solar panels.

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Luca Curci Architects designs a zero-energy smart city of the future

AGreenLiving

According to the United Nations, 5 billion people are projected to live in cities by 2030. In response to the growing challenge of urban populations and their accompanying carbon emissions, Italian design practice Luca Curci Architects has proposed The Link, a self-sustainable “vertical city” with the goal of net-zero energy operations.