Smart Cities have Great Governance

How to get people out of their cars and into public transit? Auckland did it, by creating a really, really good bus network for very little money. Citywide network + frequency. Not magic; action. #Priority #PUBLICtransit. https://t.co/mYES8p8TP9

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John Hagel @jhagel·

13 Apr

Rejuvenating brains. Neuroscientists found a gene that encodes a protein responsible for age-related cognitive losses, targeted it with special blocking antibodies, and shown in mice these antibodies can rejuvenate old brains to work as well as young ones https://t.co/HOpZe0pUwP

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Robert Rohde @RARohde·

5 Apr

Animation showing the changes in national total greenhouse gas emissions by country from 1850 to 2016.

Data source: PRIMAP-hist v2.0.

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Mike Hudema@MikeHudema·

3 Apr

Norway is banning cars from the centre of Oslo.
Parking spaces are to be replaced with flower beds. 🌸
60km of cycle lanes are being built. 🚲

We have solutions to the #climate crisis. Let's implement them.

#energy #sustainability #innovation #greencities #climatechange

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MaRS@MaRSDD·

4 Apr

The 2019 Gairdner laureates – both international and Canadian – are being recognized for their breakthrough discoveries in research, as well as physical and mental health.

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Senseable City Lab @SenseableCity·

18 Mar

Visiting PhD researcher Martina Mazzarello has created a #Senseable kit to explore Munich and Zhengzhou, the next destinations of our Digital Design City Workshop class. The Rapid Ethnographic tool will help the students explore the context.

#StayTuned

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John Hagel @jhagel·

18 Mar

By 2040, about two-thirds of the world’s population will be concentrated in urban centers and, fed by growing amounts of data, these cities are becoming smarter https://t.co/CuSivCNryU

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Jen Pedersen @jenpeders·

18 Mar

Massive delays for international flights at @TorontoPearson due to a fire earlier this evening. This is the view of folks waiting for security screening to reopen.
All flights to US from T1 cancelled. #pearsonfire

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter·

15 Mar

In Toronto this year so far, the average age of a person who walks killed by a person who drives is 65.2. 2/3 of them were killed by trucks. With the population getting older and the trucks getting taller, why are we fighting over countdown timers? https://t.co/57975cSfhd https://t.co/6hpLKKywVe

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer·

13 Mar

If you are visiting Twitter for the first time in a while because of Facebook troubles I have a bunch of lists about tech industry just for you to get your account up to date: https://t.co/vSzN8Je1nW

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