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An eco-calculator evaluates the environmental impact of street furniture in Paris

by Elsa Sidawy | 07.08.11

To upgrade its catalog of street furniture from 1995, the City of Paris has developed an eco-calculator that integrates its furniture’s environmental data. Used since April by the management of urban planning, the tool is allowing officials to analyze the life cycle of a whole body of objects.

Fontainebleau future laboratory for green innovations

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by Elsa Sidawy | 06.23.11

Favoured by a historical and natural heritage that has made it famous, the city of Fontainebleau could do without thinking about its ecological conversion. But the city council wishes, on the contrary, to become an open-air laboratory to experiment innovative solutions.

Soon wind turbines will light up Korean roads?

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by Elsa Sidawy | 06.15.11

“Our lights will lead the way” is a prospective project conceived by Sungi Kim, a young designer in South Korea. Equipped with micro turbines, Kim’s terminals would be powered by the “breath” of cars.

With Heliotrop, concentrated solar power has a bright future

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Cleantech Republic | 05.26.11 | Quick Read

Is the conventional photovoltaic doomed? Faced with an industry beset by French regulations and all kinds of moratoria, new technologies are emerging, following the example of solar concentrators, lead in France by the young start-up Heliotrop.

Food-analysing sensors in dining halls soon?

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by Elsa Sidawy | 05.17.11

No added sugar, fat free, natural… Which food product does not display this type of health or nutritional allegation today? Consumers have difficulties checking these arguments, which have become essential marketing weapons.

The small Swedish town of Skellefteå is giving Silicon Valley a run for its money

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by Elsa Sidawy | 05.11.11

The city of Skellefteå, in the north of Sweden has become since the end of last year a testing ground for local enterprises keen on trying out their new digital and mobile products and services in a particularly favorable context.

Towards smart green roofs

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Le Moniteur | 05.02.11 | Quick Read

Today home automation is not limited to the interior of buildings anymore. Roofs are now the scene of various experimentations to bring a little bit of greenery within cities, regulate the temperature of buildings during summer and enable water retention in case of heavy rain. A firm has developed a solution to optimise watering management according to plants’ real needs on green roof installations.

The city of Amsterdam wants to reduce by half the surface of its business premises thank to Smart Work Centers

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by Elsa Sidawy | 04.28.11

Amsterdam aims at reducing by 40% its greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, compared to the 1990 levels. The city launched the Amsterdam Smart City programme, which notably includes an original initiative that encourages city employees to go to Smart Work Centers in order to reduce the disastrous effects of daily commutes on their quality of life and on the environment.

Savannius: a wind turbine-bench designed to recharge mobile phones in public parks

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by Elsa Sidawy | 04.26.11

The Japanese designer Hirotaka Matsui invented the first wind turbine-bench. Savannius is a circular bench in the middle of which stands a small turbine generating energy thanks to the wind.

Suntree: a photovoltaic tree to recharge electric vehicles

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by Adrien Geneste | 04.19.11

A solar tree: this is the perfect idea. Meant for urban areas, the attractively designed solar canopy Suntree was first intended for recharging electric vehicles. But its designers also wanted to make it a protean piece of furniture that would meet the needs of demanding users and distance itself from a competitive environment that is becoming fiercer.

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Greater Geneva: an economic and social project at the heart of innovation

Urbanism | 12.16.11

The Greater Geneva project represents an economic and social challenge for that area spanning France and Switzerland. The aim is to set in motion again a process that will stimulate job creation in the French part and strengthen residential services in the Swiss part. Innovative activities should find their place in that territory.

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Innovation lies also in the strategy

Social | 09.08.11

Is the proliferation of urban innovations counter-productive? While some cities are experimenting with abandon and with no real apparent logic, others have adopted a long-term strategy to combine innovations to serve a smarter, more sustainable city. Jean Haëntjens returns to this forum to talk about how important it is for cities to approach innovation with consistency and control.

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London’s transport system is transformed into a massive playground

And what happens when a public transport network becomes the scene of gigantic team games? Inspired by the principle of Fun Theory, which suggests that environmentally responsible behavior can be encouraged through attractive infrastructure, Chromaroma invites London Underground users to participate in an eco-citizen turf war.

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Rotterdam’s Crowd-Funded Pedestrian Bridge

Urbanism | 01.05.12

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) and Rotterdam-based architecture firm ZUS have launched the project I Make Rotterdam, a spectacular temporary pedestrian bridge between the city’s Central and the North districts that will be financed through crowd-funding.

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In Caracas, mimes ease traffic tension

Education | 11.07.11

Venezuela’s capital Caracas plans to manage its traffic flow in an unusual fashion. In addition to traffic police, 120 mimes dressed up as clowns were sent into the city’s streets. Their role? Curb the risky behavior of pedestrians and drivers, not by force or repression, but through silence.

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