Fri.Mar 29, 2019

article thumbnail

[Article] In Memoriam: Mike Rogers

Home Energy

This past year, the home performance industry lost a dear friend. We pay tribute to one of our most tireless advocates and greatest contributors. The following obituary is from Mike’s wife Karen Sokol and his daughter Sabine. It first appeared in the Vermont online news outlet Seventh Day on December 26, 2018.

40
article thumbnail

Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Narrowed to 10 Finalists – Government Technology, March 21, 2019

CleanTech San Diego

Cleantech San Diego Named a Top 10 Finalist in the Smart Cities Readiness Challenge. Digital services. Collaboration around climate action plans. Intelligent approaches to transportation and transit. These are some of the challenges a number of municipalities are taking on as they explore smart city projects. That’s part of the takeaway from the proposals submitted by more than 100 jurisdictions from the United States, Canada and Mexico to the 2019 Smart Cities Readiness Challenge.

article thumbnail

Jeff Bezos And Amazon Can Empower Consumers On The Greatest Challenge Of Our Time

Jigar Shah

With great wealth comes great responsibility. Whether it was due to the ghosts of the Great Depression or just plain humility, the wealthy used to feel an obligation to use their means to better humanity, often by learning about and tackling the greatest challenges during their lifetimes. Now, we see many billionaires?—?like Jeff Bezos?—?pursuing smaller initiatives instead of tackling the truly intractable and important problems of their age.