Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sustainable Development Goal
Sustenir is an urban farming company that uses controlled environment agriculture to grow non-native plants in Singapore. Seen here are regional sales manager Jack Moy and co-founder Benjamin Swan. The company is also looking at using AI to monitor plant growth. GROWING cold-weather crops such as strawberries and kale in Singapore might seem impossible to...
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white and red structure raised off the ground on blue stilts
Located 100 kilometers from Beijing, the Lakeside Plugin Tower was developed as a model prototype for a city concept using sustainable, net-zero design principles. The tower serves as an important model for a low-carbon eco city concept, called “Xiong’an New Area,” being advanced by the central government. The urban design will use 100 percent clean electricity, and...
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A recent article in local publication Merkur from Germany reported on how the search for oil ended up with a geothermal heating plant that today supplies the city of Erding with heat. For now more than 20 years STEAG New Energies GmbH Erding has supplied the city of Erding with geothermal energy from resources at...
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Solar panels may be able to supply us with much more than just clean energy; this new research says that it might also help crops to thrive in arid areas. Agrivoltaics, also known as “solar sharing”, is the co-locating of agriculture and solar photovoltaic panels. The idea has been gaining traction in recent years; however,...
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They don’t do ‘small’ in the United Arab Emirates. The world’s thirteenth richest country builds its own islands and boasts the tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which itself is surrounded by enough towering glass-covered skyscrapers to require a fleet of robots to clean them. And now, this country that has risen from poverty to become the world’s...
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Plants are the planet’s lungs, but they’re struggling to keep up due to rising CO2 emissions and deforestation. Engineers are giving them a helping hand, though, by augmenting their capacity with new technology and creating artificial substitutes to help them clean up our atmosphere. Imperial College London, one of the UK’s top engineering schools, recently announced that it was teaming...
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In early 2018, Cape Town, South Africa came dangerously close to being the world’s first major city to run out of water. People lined up for blocks to collect spring water. Stores sold out of receptacles like buckets and bowls. Bottled water was rationed in tourist-heavy parts of the city. April 12 was designated “Day Zero”—the...
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There’s more than sunbathers and yachts floating near the resort Lux* South Ari Atoll in the Maldives. The five-star property, located on the beautiful island of Dhidhoofinolhu, called on SwimSol to provide its patented SolarSea system, the world’s largest solar power plant at sea, to help power the island resort. The SolarSea technology helps gather solar energy to...
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From a first-principles perspective, the task of feeding eight billion people boils down to converting energy from the sun into chemical energy in our bodies. Traditionally, solar energy is converted by photosynthesis into carbohydrates in plants (i.e., biomass), which are either eaten by the vegans amongst us, or fed to animals, for those with a...
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“Where does your water come from?” Friesen hit me with the question almost before I had time to sit down. I stuttered. Uh…well…heading into an interview where I thought I would be asking all the questions, I was thoroughly unprepared for the question, but stammered off on my way just the same. “Southern California is...
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