We welcomed further U.S. support for ASEAN's Environmentally Sustainable Cities (ESC) initiative and ASEAN Working Group on Nature Conservation and Biodiversity.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Mayor Kasim Reed has pledged that the City of Atlanta will become one of the top 10 most sustainable cities in the United States.
"You can't have sustainable cities that are only environmentally and economically sustainable, " says Richard Stren of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson said the building of the new facility was a "great step forward" to becoming "one of Europe's most sustainable cities".
"There's going to have to be new forms of energy, new ways of delivering energy and new forms of infrastructure, " says Warren Karlenzig, president of Common Current, a consulting firm on sustainable cities based in San Anselmo, Calif.
"With planning and the right investments in people now ... our world of 7 billion can have thriving, sustainable cities, productive labor forces that can fuel economic growth, youth populations that contribute to the well-being of economies and societies, and a generation of older people who are healthy and actively engaged in the social and economic affairs of their communities, " UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said in a new report.
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The technology, which is now being piloted in Dublin (under the name CityWatch) and will eventually roll out across London (as part of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities), is impressive.
Organizations can find new business streams, create more sustainable buildings and cities, pinpoint cures for diseases, or reduce criminal activity.
Each of the sessions will highlight the challenges, major initiatives and actionable agenda needed for creating sustainable and inclusive cities.
There will be something else common to all truly sustainable towns and cities: they will be more prosperous than unsustainable ones.
"African policymakers need to steer urbanisation from its current non-sustainable path towards healthier cities that ensure food and nutrition security, decent work and income, and a clean environment for all their citizens, " says the FAO's Modibo Traore.
Successful Green Cities: Examples of cities undertaking sustainable practices in specific sectors, such as energy supply, buildings, transportation, water and waste, but are there cities that are taking an integrated approach greening multiple sectors concurrently?
The New Cities Foundation, a non-profit organization that wants to create more sustainable, dynamic, creative and global cities teamed with Ericsson created a special task force, the Connected Commuting Task Force, to see if there was a positive correlation between the use of smartphone trip planning applications and improving the commuting experience.
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Its "Promoting Sustainable Transport Solutions for East African Cities" project aims to reduce growth in private motor vehicles, thus reducing traffic congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions.
We also looked at several groundbreaking building systems that stand to make our cities stronger and more sustainable, starting with a new type of flexible superglass that is stronger than steel.
New Cities: As urbanization as a process accelerates can policy and planning in new cities leap-frog environmental, social and economic negatives of current cities to create green and sustainable living environments?
For example, last week the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help up to eight cities leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
For example, today the Rockefeller Foundation announced it will provide seed money for a new RE.invest initiative, a public-private partnership that will help selected cities to leverage private financing for sustainable storm water and sewer systems.
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In October 2010, an international symposium on urban futures and human and urban well-being elaborated plans for a new three-year initiative to promote sustainable urban development and improve the relationship between cities and the ecosystems of which they are a part.
This is a sustainable investment because it improves the linkage between two cities with populations of 24 million and 9 million.
The exchanges covered issues from World Heritage Sites and intangible cultural heritage to education for sustainable development, including the role of Scotland's Creative Cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Sustainable designer Bill McDonough told the audience of his plans for green cities in China, and Alex Steffen showed flowers that bloom red petals if they are growing above mines.
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Paul Barter of the Sustainable Transport Action Network, in Kuala Lumpur, points out that in Asia only a handful of large cities, such as Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and (at least until a couple of years ago) Seoul, have succeeded in containing congestion.
The remake of traffic systems, rebuilding cities on smarter grid systems, synchronizing parking, possibly reinventing entire markets to reward drivers for sustainable activity, and actually re-imagining vehicles themselves will lead us not only to better cars, but possibly better cities and an easier way of living.
The network facilitates the sharing of experience, knowledge and resources among the member cities as a means of promoting the development of local creative industries and fostering worldwide co-operation for sustainable urban development.
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