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Building Smart Cities With, Not For, Our Residents Rob Phocas, Energy & Sustainability Manager, City of Charlotte I like the latest “smart” technology as much as the next person. Be it a smart streetlight, a digital kiosk, or a solar powered bench that charges your smart device and counts passers-by, it is hard not to find futuristic features appealing. But as a sustainability director and public servant, I must look past that cool factor. At a recent smart cities conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the conference organizers asked the presenters t...
Sarah Hazel Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones has named Sarah Hazel permanently to the job of overseeing the city's sustainability efforts. Hazel has been acting head of the Office of Sustainability since last year, when Rob Phocas left for a job in the private sector. Hazel will get a new, broader title as the city's first chief sustainability and resiliency officer. “Sarah has been filling this role, in addition to her other roles, for some time and has become not just a leader for our organization, but a leader for the entire community and a leader in this field,” Jones said in a pr...