Sustainable Cities and Communities

Sustainable Development Goal
Powering buildings costs America $430 billion a year and accounts for 40 percent of total energy use. Almost half of that is used for heating and cooling. Now scientists have given our oldest building material, wood, a makeover to make it eight times stronger, highly reflective, and able to radiate away building heat without using any...
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Forty years ago, the Canadian city of Sudbury was a blackened landscape that had been devastated by pollution from mining sites and industrialization. Now, thanks to decades of restoration and conservation work, the air quality is ranked as some of the best in all of Ontario. Not only that, the landscape has come alive with trees and...
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Ellen, the most powerful all-electric ferry in the world, has completed sea trials, survived shakedown cruises, celebrated its maiden voyage, and has now entered revenue service on the 22-mile route between the cities of Søby and Fynshav, on the islands of Ærø and Als in southern Denmark. That voyage is seven times longer than any...
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Last week, the Hawaiian Electric Companies began Hawai‘i’s largest procurement effort for renewable energy resources to end the use of coal and reduce reliance on imported oil for power generation, moving the state closer to its goal of using 100 percent renewable energy by 2045. With the approval of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the...
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Japanese conglomerate backs solar utility BBOXX to expand service in south Asia and Africa  A BBOX mini solar panel. The UK-based firm operates in four African countries and with Mitsubishi’s investment is expanding into Asia. A British energy firm lighting up homes in Africa with pay-as-you-go solar power has secured £40m to extend its reach to Asia...
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Innovative project in Glasgow to drill 12 wells exploring mine water for geothermal heating With numerous abandoned coal mines across the UK, there is a large potential utilising abandoned mines to derive geothermal energy that could be used to heat up to one fourth of UK’s homes and businesses. The innovative UK Geoenergy Observatories Project...
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Scheme to pipe ‘waste heat’ from tube into hundreds of Islington homes and businesses  A Northern line tube train coming into Kentish Town station. Photograph: Alamy The sweltering temperatures on the tube’s Northern line will soon begin keeping homes in Islington, north London, cosy through the colder months, under a scheme to harness the heat from...
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Today (Saturday 22 September 2018), the Co-op announced an end to single-use plastic. It will see around 60 million plastic carrier bags removed in a phased rollout and replaced with an environmentally-friendly alternative. The move is part of a new hard-hitting ethical strategy to be launched later this week by the Co-op, which will tackle plastic pollution as...
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Daan Roosegaarde's "Smog-Free Tower"
In 2015, a Dutch designer invented an air purifier to help fight air pollution. First, it came to Rotterdam and four Chinese cities. Now, it’s going to Poland Daan Roosegaarde’s “Smog-Free Tower”  The air we breathe is not as clean as it once was. And in many cases, it is getting worse. On high-smog days...
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This week the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom has committed to cutting a further 1,284 tons of plastic from their supply chain over the course of the next year, including plastic cutlery, bags, lids, and trays. Sainsbury’s will start by removing 489 tonnes’ worth of plastic bags, which are currently used...
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