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70+ speakers and 5,000+ attendees will share their urban planning, climate action, and green economy ideas and solutions

While life-as-usual remains disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, cities rely increasingly on community-based and often digitally-enabled sharing of knowledge, skills and resources. These emergent forms of ‘communal sharing’ cannot be explained through instrumentally-beneficial economic discourses or structurally-disruptive political narratives alone. Rather, they call for revaluing the interdependent social relations that digital platforms enable and maintain. Drawing from a relational ontology of transformative social innovation, this paper begins to reframe communal sharing as inherently ...

The university will work with the real estate leader on developing sustainable, zero-carbon projects It's been just six months since Concordia launched...

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[Revealed]: The Secret Tech That Makes Elon Musk's Smart City a Reality You may not notice it, but the world around you is changing drastically. Earlier this year, for the first time ever, New York City’s beloved Empire State Building became a smart-energy skyscraper that is now 100% powered by wind. Last summer in Chattanooga, city officials completed the installation of its Ultra Smart Streetlight system, created by Global Green Lighting. The system uses a technology called the FlexNet lighting control system to monitor and control 350 energy-efficient LED fixtures along a 35-mile grid. T...