Smog-eating pavement on 'greenest street in America'
The big rigs rattling past smokestacks sure don't make this Chicago roadway look like the greenest street in America.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 7, 2013
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News tagged with energy planners
Governments 'misjudging' scale of CO2 emissions
Policy makers in Europe and United States are markedly underestimating the changes needed to mitigate CO2 emission required to prevent dangerous climate change because they work in 'silos', according to pioneering research.
Environment
Feb 21, 2010
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Researchers build better earthquake simulator
(Phys.org)—Traditional earthquake simulators have generally functioned by pressing two pieces of rock material together at high pressure until they reach a breaking point, resulting in something similar to the sticking ...
Upgraded urban travel 'could save $70 trillion by 2050'
Urban planners must re-invent city transportation systems to save up to $70 trillion globally in the next 37 years, a study said on Wednesday citing the examples of Belgrade, Seoul and New York City.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 10, 2013
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Novel online platform to substantially improve energy efficiency in both buildings and wider urban areas
The platform, designed for city planners, industry and energy stakeholders, assesses and maps buildings' energy behaviour, and can also remotely control public street lighting. The platform has already succeeded in cutting ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 18, 2016
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Cities and climate change: Why low-rise buildings are the future, not skyscrapers
More than half of the world's 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living there. As that figure continues to climb and ever more people flock to metropolitan areas ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Columbia engineers map energy use in NYC buildings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities across the globe are trying to develop plans to cut down their energy consumption and lower their carbon footprint by reducing the associated greenhouse gas emissions. While initial efforts have focused ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 31, 2012
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Scientists, practitioners, religious communities urge collaborative action to save our planet
Big global questions face us, among them: How will we feed a growing global population without ruining the soil and polluting freshwater? Or meet our burgeoning energy demands while curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2013
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How cities use energy to regulate temperature, just like mammals
Humans, like all mammals, expend energy to keep their internal temperatures within a healthy range. Modern human cities—because we built them that way—do the same thing.
Environment
Apr 12, 2023
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Transforming urban wasteland into opportunity
How can disused urban sites be regenerated sustainably? A new book addresses this important issue.
Environment
Mar 13, 2013
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