Electric Planes, Trains and Automobiles… & Boats, Bikes & Sleds
COVID-19 put a great pause to our global travel, allowing the earth to breathe and science to reflect on the climate emergency IF we stopped fossil fuels all together. This…
2020
Race for rural connectivity
Canada has just announced a move to connect 98% of the country with a $1.75 billion program to improve internet connectivity, principally in rural and remote areas. And in an…
Documentaries to watch in changing seasons
Here are some great ones! What are others? David Attenborough Human Nature Kiss the Ground My Octopus Teacher Dream Big Brave Blue World How To Change The World
Future Thinkers Smart Village
We are at a crossroads with humanity. The Climate Emergency is the most important issue of our lifetime, followed by the intersection of exponential technologies as a disruptive but positive…
Regenerative Innovation
Post pandemic is a brave new world. Everyone is joining a change taskforce and forming collectives to bring down silos, and build independent applications to decrease reliance on big organizations.…
Civic Hackathon Guide
Question 1 : What is hacking? What the heck is a hackathon? There are several definitions for “hacking” and we will check out three of them. Definition One … hacking…
Radically optimizing the world
Recovery from coronavirus must lead to a better world. We simply cannot return to where we were before #COVID19 struck, with communities unnecessarily vulnerable to health, environment and economic crises.…
Smart Cities for Emergency Response & Community Planning + Rural Opportunity
Last December, before the Coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese city of Wuhan signed an agreement with the communications giant Huawei to install infrastructure to enhance its security and information services and…
Smart Cities Tour 2020: Futuring During Pandemic & Climate Emergency
We have just returned from Taiwan, where we witnessed the birth of new smart cities and visited many top tier sustainable businesses. Taoyuan City hosted the Top7 Intelligent Communities of…
Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure
95 percent of serious car crashes are due to human error. There is an ever increasing amount of road traffic and semi trucks with new drivers on our major highways…
