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The US Pentagon Says Climate Change Is A Threat Multiplier | Mesh Cities
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The US Pentagon Says Climate Change Is A Threat Multiplier. The Pentagon Makes it official: Climate change is a national security issue. Last Monday the US Secretary of Defence, Chuck Hagel, issued a position paper. The truth is that the Western governments formerly blind commitment to the old carbon economy has crippled their global performance. Last week the US 10 year Treasury bond yields. Or maybe the Sierra Club. Change is in the air. How will cities respond? The Department of Defense Must Plan for ...
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Ownership Economies Vs Sharing Economies | Mesh Cities
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Ownership Economies Vs Sharing Economies. Cars to Go when you need them. Why overpay for private auto insurance and loan financing? Advanced, 21st Century networking solutions are shredding the North American consumers aspiration for a car in every garage. Welcome to the new, MESHed world of digitally connected urban travel. On-demand transit has arrived. Greener cities are just one part of an urban transformation the future promises. Whats fueling the change from where weve been to where we are going?
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What Do We Know About Digital Cities Anyway? | Mesh Cities
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What Do We Know About Digital Cities Anyway? The John Street Toronto virtual city navigation stack circa 1995. Are todays connected citizens confused by the latest digital city offerings? Our founder has researched and developed digital city solutions for more than two decades now. Together with some remarkable collaborators, he launched an innovative virtual city tour in partnership with Apple using that companys then nascent QTVR. We adopted the quote, The city is a book with 100,000 million poems.
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How Big City Transit Can Benefit From Popup Services | Mesh Cities
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How Big City Transit Can Benefit From Popup Services. Private bus services will get more people out of cars by offering something different than mass transit. For all those city transit workers out their wringing their hands over popup, private transit systems like Bridj. Not surprisingly, your services failed. Lets not point fingers (maybe you were too successful? CTA, or BART offering coffee, plush seats, and WiFi to an elite few. It just isnt going to happen (and if for some miracle they could mak...
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One billion new smart phones will change how cities are used | Mesh Cities
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One Billion New Smart Phones Will Change Our Cities In 2015. This essay is adapted from the intro story to Tech in the City Robert Ouellette wrote for the Winter 2014-2015 of Spacing Magazine. Built the first mass culture, personal computer in 1976 he envisioned ordinary people as technically empowered as the researchers at IBM or Hewlett Packard. Jobs grew an empire pursuing his vision, living Stuart Brands advice from the Last Whole Earth Catalogue: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. This emergent self-organis...
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Worldwide Urban Database for Climate Modelling Launched | Mesh Cities
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Worldwide Urban Database for Climate Modelling Launched. A Libelium weather station for local measurements. This is a city-technology project a lot of digital developers we know will embrace because it has the potential to make a difference to our cities and our climate. In the face of a rapidly changing global climate, these are critical questions for city builders, and Dr. Jason Ching of the University of North Carolina is part of a multinational team offering up a smart way to answer them. As an exper...
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Why Does The Canadian Economy Need Smart Cities? | Mesh Cities
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Why Does The Canadian Economy Need Smart Cities? Sustainable cities are smart cities and not just because of the new energy or water management technologies they might adopt. In a massively changing world, truly smart cities are the ones effectively leveraging the economic creativity of the people who live in them. Florida says, “Our cities and communities are the organizing units of the creative age supplanting the power of the industrial plants of the early 20th Century.”. If true, it explains why, for...
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M in MESH Stands for Mobile | Mesh Cities
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M in MESH Stands for Mobile. Nuit Blanche Paris iPhone App ( artilt. Those same phones are enabling cities and their users in other, more permanent, ways too. In 2015 alone one billion new smart phones will be put in the hands of mostly city dwellers. That means more than one in seven people living on the planet will be linked in real time to the Internet and, by extension, to each other. How smart are those smart phones? Where will it end? Smartphone market growth ( The Guardian. Are slashing hotelier p...
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Taking On Really F'ing Wicked Problems—Revisited | Mesh Cities
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Taking On Really F’ing Wicked Problems Revisited. Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed. Just to be undecided about them.”. Laurence J. Peter. While MESH Cities dives into its redesign to accommodate Googles new search algorithms aimed at mobile, we revisit this short but popular essay about taking on wicked problems . . . Really, really, wicked problems. The environment is one such problem. Survey after survey in Canada and the United States reveal tha...
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Vowles the Green in Knowle: Steiner Secrecy??
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Vowles the Green in Knowle. Views about our real wealth - the natural and social world, the source of our resources and the basis of our lives - and how it can and should be sustained for generations. Green City: practical examples. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Excellent blog post here. By Andy Lewis on the Steiner Free School that is being proposed in Bristol (see this Post story for the latest news on this here. 1 Will you publish what associations you have with the Anthroposophical Movement? You can rea...