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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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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

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Smartpipe Technologies ’ high-pressure, reinforced-thermoplastic pipeline replacement has a low carbon footprint and built-in leak detection, health monitoring, and intrusion monitoring. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being

GreenBiz

Last week, three respected real estate companies — Cushman & Wakefield, Hines and Delos — announced an initiative intended to help companies begin the process of reconfiguring their offices to protect employees’ health as they return to work. Register here for our half-day event starting at 1 p.m. EDT May 18. Scaling municipal fleets.

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Smart grid: IoT predictive maintenance guide

Smart Energy International

In a smart grid predictive maintenance use case, LWM2M plays a crucial role in tracking essential telemetry and device data, including real-time energy consumption, power quality parameters, equipment health and status, fault logs, load profiles and battery health for energy storage systems.

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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet. Through reform, we can create a more resilient and environmentally friendly food system. This sees them as reluctant in transitioning towards renewable energy. Lack of awareness and knowledge is also a key barrier.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

AGreenLiving

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves Roland Hunziker Tue, 10/06/2020 – 01:00 The COVID crisis has exposed our interdependencies and the insufficient preparation of our urban systems for coping with shocks. We need to build resilience into both physical and social structures of our cities.