April 7th, 2019 | by Cynthia Shahan
Let's start with just a few adjectives about our daily lives -- overexposed, overwhelmed, stimulated, toxic, deficient. It's not enough that many young people lack good nutrition, but they are also challenged by circumstance by a lack of clean air to breathe and pure water to drink
March 18th, 2019 | by Michael Barnard
Smart cities aren’t IoT sensors for everything on every corner all of the time. They aren’t just dumb CCTV cameras everywhere providing post facto blame allocation for crimes and accidents. Sensors are just the start
December 29th, 2018 | by World Resources Institute
The WRI Ross Prize for Cities aims to spotlight exemplary real-world examples of urban transformation to help inspire better cities for all. Nearly 200 projects around the globe submitted applications for the inaugural $250,000 prize
December 8th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Older, male, wealthier and in North America for the most part. Strongly identifying as city dwellers, not rural dwellers. Not a surprising response, but a useful one
October 20th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
Urbanization is one of the factors which allowed more humans to survive and hence the population to grow. Cities were integral to the success of the Industrial Revolution and without them, humanity wouldn’t have changed the climate as much
August 7th, 2018 | by Carolyn Fortuna
The 2018 Gulf of Mexico dead zone isn't quite as big as last summer, but is that really good news
January 19th, 2015 | by Sandy Dechert
What if we could cut city energy use by about one-fourth, from 730 EJ to 540 EJ, in 2050? The alternative is [&hellip
November 1st, 2014 | by Cynthia Shahan
Automobile traffic produces air pollution, chokes cities, and wastes time. Mass transit is one of the best options for change. Many of [&hellip
October 5th, 2014 | by Cynthia Shahan
Mi Teleférico in Bolivia is on the verge of becoming the longest aerial cable car system in the world. It [&hellip
August 25th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Mid-August. A great time for four researchers from Climate Central to publish their new report on urban heat islands—areas with [&hellip
