A practical approach to Circular Buildings
New strategic framework and indicators for circular buildings now available A new strategic framework has been developed through a collaboration with the Dutch Green Building…
Sustainability
How smart cities around the world are providing solutions to water scarcity problems
Water scarcity has always been one of the main preoccupations for today’s world and its future. Getting clean and usable water to everyone is…
Smart Glass
Buildings account for 40% of the global energy use. As a consequence, the mass realization of net zero-energy buildings (NZEBs) is top priority for…
UN: e-waste growing risk to environment and human health
A new assessment on global electronic waste (e-waste), policies and statistics, The Global E-Waste Monitor 2017, is being released today by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)…
2 examples of China’s green ambitions: forest city and solar aqua-culture
While the USA is stepping off the Paris Climate agreement, China is leading the way in ‘green living’ by creating a forest city with…
Multiple Smog Free Towers to be developed across parks in China
Smog Free Project has landed at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian as part of its Chinese tour. The Smog Free…
Turning polluted urban spaces into tropical forests
China’s ‘treescrapers’ tackle air pollution Bogota’s blossom garden: next-level purifiers Urban jungles – why do we need them? London’s Garden Bridge is like a…
Rotterdam will get Europes largest smart grid
The city of Rotterdam will connect 20,000 households and companies to a smart grid network. The city has signed a contract for this purpose…
City bus of the future: the e-bus without batteries
The cities of Graz, Austria (pop. 280.000) and Sofia, Bulgaria (pop. 1.37 m) are among the first non-Chinese cities to test in full operation…
Seoullo 7017: recycling a highway into city park
Two weeks ago the grand opening of Seoullo 7017 took place in the Korean capital Seoul. A 16 metre high overdue highway overpass was…