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Clicking Clean: How Companies Are Creating the Green Internet

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

GREENPEACE
While shifting businesses to an online model can create significant gains in energy efficiency, the energy appetite of the internet continues to outstrip those gains thanks to its dramatic growth. Critically, the internet’s growing energy footprint has thus far been mostly concentrated in places where energy is the dirtiest…But there is good news to report: since our last report, How Clean is Your Cloud? (April 2012),3 leading data center operators have taken key steps toward building a green internet, particularly those companies that have committed to build a 100% renewably powered platform. These commitments are having a profound impact in the real world, shifting investment from legacy coal, gas and nuclear power plants to renewable energy technologies, and disrupting the status quo among major electric utilities.

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Tags: Greenpeace, Internet
Posted in Broadband, Energy, Environment, Global, Green, Infra Views, Sustainability, Technology

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Cities Alive

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Retrofitting the city with nature: The High Line New York: this project captured the public’s imagination and helped redefine and globally influence what urban green space can be; it demonstrates how quality city space can positively utilise obsolete city infrastructure and also how a project of this scale can be successfuly managed by the local community.

ARUP
Reflecting the scale of the challenges ahead, there is urgency to develop more sustainably and this has become pervasive at all levels of government. The 1987 Brundtland Commission looked to unite countries worldwide to pursue sustainable development, and in 2006 the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change discussed the effect of global warming on the world economy. The main conclusion of the Stern report was that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change far outweigh the costs of not acting.

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Tags: Arup, Green Infrastructure
Posted in Environment, Global, Green, Infra Views, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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Clean Water, Strong Communities

Friday, April 25th, 2014

GREEN FOR ALL
This white paper focuses on one of the most promising strategies water utilities can use to develop broad public support: Embracing triple-bottom-line outcomes that deliver community benefits like jobs, business opportunities, green space, safer and more beautiful streets, and other local amenities. Selected policies and programs designed to catalyze community and economic development allow water utilities to show the public that they provide efficient and environmentally beneficial infrastructure that fosters local economic and social improvements.

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Tags: Green for All, Water Infrastructure
Posted in Drinking Water, Environment, Equity, Green, Infra Views, Policy, Public Opinion, Sustainability, Wastewater, Water Treatment

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Clean Water Strong Communities

Thursday, April 17th, 2014

Water utilities are investing millions, even billions, to clean up our water. Yet our water infrastructure is essentially invisible and its value often goes unnoticed by consumers and ratepayers. Community benefit strategies and green infrastructure help water utilities translate the value of their work and in the process they make our communities stronger.

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Tags: Green for All, greenforall
Posted in Environment, Green, Show Us Your Infra, Sustainability, Wastewater, Water Treatment

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Transportation Futures: Policy Scenarios for Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Table 1. Fuel Economy and GHG Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Trucks

MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE
The goal of this study was to examine various policy options that can achieve large-scale reductions by 2040, based on the current time frame of Annual Energy Outlook forecasts. Existing regulations on light-duty vehicle fuel economy and carbon emissions are leading to rapid decreases in emissions. New heavy-duty fuel economy standards will also soon take effect. These are supplemented by the renewable fuel standard. But these efforts are unlikely to be sufficient to meet what will be challenging reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the next 30 years. This study examined the degree to which three key travel-demand policies—road pricing, directing new population growth to more compact areas, and increasing the level of transit service—could contribute to reductions within this time frame.

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Tags: Greenhouse Gases, Mineta Transportation Institute, VISION
Posted in Carbon Tax, Clean Air, Climate Change, Environment, Green, Infra Views, Policy, Pollution, Sustainability

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Urban Sustainability: Saving the Earth with Sustainable Cities

Monday, March 24th, 2014

For the first time ever, more people live in the world’s cities than in rural regions, and most population growth is occurring in urban areas. This trend points to the need for urban sustainability which uses green building practices and creative city planning to help reduce environmental damage. Cities may seem to be a threat to the environment since they generate more than three-quarters of carbon emissions globally; however, the concentration of so many people and vehicles in one place may also offer a chance to solve problems, whether in transport systems, fuel economy or urban planning.

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Tags: Sustainability, urban cities
Posted in Environment, Green, Show Us Your Infra, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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Atlanta, GA: Innovation Report

Friday, March 21st, 2014

CITY OF ATLANTA INNOVATION DELIVERY TEAM
All across our city, we are making remarkable progress to ensure that Atlanta continues to be the capital of the Southeast. From forging public-private partnerships and developing initiatives that support our youth, to launching the world’s first 311 system on the cloud, the work we are doing in Atlanta is not only moving our city forward, but is setting a standard for cities nationwide.
-Mayor Kasim Reed

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Tags: Atlanta, City of Atlanta Innovation Delivery Team, GA, Georgia, Mayor Kasim Reed
Posted in Aviation, Biking, Environment, Green, Infra Views, Local, Policy, Public Parks & Recreation, Solid Waste, Sustainability, Urban Planning

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Providence, RI: Storm Water Management Through Green Infrastructure

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Currently the City of Providence is unable to manage all of the rain it receives. Every year, stormwater carries an unhealthy amount of pollution into our waterways and causes flooding in our streets and basements. Much of Providence’s system of storm drains, catch basins and underground pipes hails back to the 19th century, when the city had far fewer buildings and much less pavement. Today, Providence has developed into a thriving city with around 180,000 inhabitants. As the city continues to grow, we need to search for new solutions that allow us to manage our stormwater while protecting our communities and environment.

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Tags: Drainage, Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Land & Water Partnership, RI, Steph Y, Stephanie Yin, stormwater, Video, Vimeo
Posted in Green, Local, Show Us Your Infra, Urban Planning, Wastewater

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East Hartford, CT: Brownfields Riverfront Revitalization

Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Goodwin College used EPA Brownfields funding from several sources to address and clean up the contaminated Connecticut River sites. It is now a vibrant campus that also allows the entire community access to the Connecticut River.

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Tags: Connecticut, Connecticut River, CT, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Goodwin College, Video, YouTube
Posted in Environment, Funding, Green, Inland Waterways, Local, Show Us Your Infra, Solid Waste, Wastewater

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