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Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy

GreenBiz

AB InBev VP: Our quest for "agile" sustainable development continues. L et's get together: Intel's 2030 commitments include "shared" climate and social goals. Highlights from Circularity 20 Digital (32:45). This is climate tech. Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy. Heather Clancy.

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Call for funding to fast-track smart communities

Sustainability Matters

Despite the progress, limited funding and a lack of strategic direction at a national level sees many smart community developments stagnate at a local level. Globally, we see leading cities and countries reaping the benefits of the digital technology and innovation. Improve delivery of digital skills and STEM.

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IoT news of the week: May 27, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

The primary difference appears to be the addition of AI to the mix of real-time sensing and digitization associated with Industry 4.0. The tag is solar powered (light in general, not necessarily the sun) and can connect to a retail cloud for price changes, inventory management, and more. However, in Industry 5.0 RCR Wireless ).

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Cleaning up cities with machine learning, AI

Sustainability Matters

Now, UNSW Sydney researchers are developing a new suite of design applications that aim to help architects and urban planners optimise their designs for greater sustainability. As researchers we have a moral responsibility to investigate landfill, pollution, the way different materials contribute to climate change.”.

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US Coalition on Sustainability Partners With Leading Alliances To Create the World’s Largest Sustainability Action Platform

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: September 20, 2022 /3BL Media/ - The US Coalition on Sustainability, a startup nonprofit organization established in collaboration with the United Nations, today welcomes more than a dozen leading alliances to SustainChain, its digital technology platform for accelerating sustainability solutions and climate action. ?Launched

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Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

Yet even as vital critiques like Browne’s emerge, the trajectory of technological investment and development continues to produce powerful engines of prediction, decision-making, and tracking that governments and companies seamlessly apply in a social context. This is because the predictions that machines make are not objective.

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Fast-tracking the clean energy transition in Australia and NZ

Sustainability Matters

Post COP-28, the most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Dubai in late 2023, it’s a question well worth asking. Under current national climate commitments, they’ll be 9% above 2010 levels by 2030; hardly the drastic reduction we desperately want and need. Doing more with digital So how can we do it?