April 27, 2018 | Cities, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Consumption Reduction, Energy Efficiency
Whatever cities do to curb the GHG emissions within their boundaries, it won’t be enough if they don’t ensure that all new buildings constructed during the next decades are decarbonized. In many cities, new construction to accommodate growing populations is a major potential source of emissions.…
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April 15, 2018 | Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Modern City Model, Urban Climate Innovation
With all the media attention on autonomous vehicles, it’s easy to miss the outpouring of other innovations that are changing the use of city streets and roads. As cities around the world push to take their streets and roads back from cars–to cut GHG emissions, traffic…
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April 9, 2018 | Climate Adaptation, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Urban Climate Innovation
John Cleveland is Executive Director of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission. This briefing document prepared with Amy Longsworth, GRC Director, in late 2017. Re: The Boston Green Ribbon Commission Mission: The Boston Green Ribbon Commission (GRC) convenes leaders from Boston’s key sectors to support the outcomes of…
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March 15, 2018 | Adaptive Futures, Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Consumption Reduction, Green Branding, Renewable Energy, Urban Climate Innovation, Urban Transformation
The creative destruction of the fossil-fuel energy sector that is underway offers cities unique economic opportunities, as well as the pain of a massive transition. Few cities have done more than Vancouver to convert the opportunities into short-term economic activity and long-term positioning in the emerging…
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February 22, 2018 | Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Guest Blogger, Markets, Urban Transformation
In the rising wave of optimistic, but pie-in-the sky, smart city initiatives, Boston’s “Smart Cities Playbook” takes a pause for a refreshing examination of what cities actually need to move their projects and initiatives forward. It’s an honest and practical description of where the city is…
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January 5, 2018 | China, Climate Innovation Laboratory Cities, Ecosystem Management, Green Branding, Green Infrastructure, Nature's Benefits, Urban Transformation
The announcement attracted international headlines: a new Chinese city is being built–a “forest city.” The Milan-based design firm hired by the urban planning department of Liuzhou, an inland city of 1 million residents an 11-hour train ride southwest from Shanghai, to develop the project at a…
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