Driver of change and innovation, consultant and advocate of how social housing can benefit from technology. Founder of Digital Bark. insight shacks and a board member for Muirhouse HA. Columnist for Housing Executive
Opportuniry to make the case for lowering emissions in the built environment by building much better with Hon. Simon Watts…NZGBC Green Property Summit…lift the building code more quickly to squeeze emissions to achieve the next Emissions Target and avoid millions flowing offshore to buy carbon credits.
In the panel, I will be talking about the intersections of smart cities and a circular economy in the context of staying within the Earth's limits and respecting human rights. Businesses can no longer solely prioritize profit as they have done in the past. They need to tackle social issues, especially with the urgent climate crisis pushing us to change the way we operate.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE to have sustainable cities?!
Join us on 7 March 2024 (Thu) at 4pm-5.30pm SGT to explore the role of #Smart and #circulareconomy in bringing #sustainablecities from concept to #implementation.
Hosted by Smart Cities Network (SCN) and Circular Business Association (CBASS) to commemorate a new Memorandum of Understanding signed between them.
Register to attend the event in-person or online at bit.ly/smart-ce
In-person seat limited to availability.
The Aalborg Conditions, launched at the 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns, aim to #accelerate the local transition to #climateneutrality through clear frameworks. So what do cities need to make this happen?
✅Shared Governance
✅Integrated Finance
✅Cohesive Transition
This framework lays out the enabling conditions cities and regions need in order to turn the European Green Deal into a reality. 💚
✍ Mayors, organisations and individuals, endorse the Aalborg Conditions here: https://lnkd.in/ehUYhvp4#Aalborg2024Aalborg Kommune
🌍 The Aalborg Conditions offer a bold roadmap for cities to embrace climate neutrality! ✅ Shared governance, integrated finance, and cohesive transitions are the real game-changers we need to make the European Green Deal a lived reality. 💚
Let’s champion this framework and build cities that thrive in harmony with our planet. Together, we can turn ambition into action! ✍ Ready to endorse and accelerate this local transition?
Let’s go, Aalborg! #Aalborg2024#ClimateNeutrality#GreenCities#SustainableFutureICLEI Europe
The Aalborg Conditions, launched at the 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns, aim to #accelerate the local transition to #climateneutrality through clear frameworks. So what do cities need to make this happen?
✅Shared Governance
✅Integrated Finance
✅Cohesive Transition
This framework lays out the enabling conditions cities and regions need in order to turn the European Green Deal into a reality. 💚
✍ Mayors, organisations and individuals, endorse the Aalborg Conditions here: https://lnkd.in/ehUYhvp4#Aalborg2024Aalborg Kommune
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
**Key fact** Many municipal golf courses are located in urban and metropolitan areas. In the United States, 4 in 5 people live in urban areas, and by 2050, that number could exceed 90%. The World Bank also shows that over half of the world's population (4.4B people) currently live in cities, while about 7 in 10 people will live in cities by 2050.
What can (municipal) golf do about it?
❖ Create programs and initiatives that invite and entice non-golfers to visit the golf facility and utilize the open green spaces.
❖ Establish integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation, adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters.
❖ Meet fundamental needs like water filtration, food production, and even energy production to ensure status as an “essential” community operation.
Key example: The Old Course at Saint Andrews
The Old Course brings in over 45,000 rounds per year despite closing every Sunday as a greenspace open to the community. The 150th Open Championship in 2022 at the Old Course brought in over £300m ($373m US dollars) to the Scottish economy.
#golf#sustainableliving#sustainabledevelopment#sdgs#municipalgolf#munigolf#sustainablegolf#sustainablesport#sustainability#regenerativegolf
Citizens' Juries have massive potential for addressing climate change at the local level, but can we do more to ensure they remain responsive to the views of the wider public?
Last year, Shared Future CIC ran a three-part mixed-method process as part of the Local Climate Engagement programme with Lancaster City Council, which drew on insights from:
🚶♂️ Community researchers
🖥 Online Pol.is engagement
👨👩👧👦 Deliberative workshops with members of the former Lancaster People’s Jury on Climate Change
Although the People’s Jury produced recommendations on transport and travel when it originally convened in 2020, a lot has changed since then.
The ‘new normal’ in the UK included heavily subsidised bus tickets, which were generally well received, but initiatives such as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods had a mixed reception, with fears of 15 minute cities and a ‘war on motorists’ dominating headlines.
Our comprehensive community engagement only scratched the surface, but it highlights some important learnings for local authorities looking to get public buy-in for greener, healthier, and more effective transport policies.
I’ll be presenting some of these findings with Andy Paice at TICTeC in London next week (12th June 2024 at 14:10pm)
If this sounds up your street (pun-intended) register below 👇
#climatechange#15minutecity#civictech#TICTeC#citizensassembly
Thank you to World Conference Sister Cities, Sister Cities International, Deputy CEO Arnildo Schildt for hosting Project Blue World Foundation today to present how together we are developing people and the planet, project by project we provide sustainable solutions. Together we build a better world. Link to video here: https://lnkd.in/gadna69a
Content of video:
Project by project, people can thrive. Together we power the our planet, together we build prosperity. People can live in happiness, and achieve quality of life for themselves and their communities.
Where does the name Project Blue World come from? The theory Blue World is based upon scientific studies of the worlds Blue Zones, areas that people achieve longevity and happiness, pockets of prosperity around the world by living in harmony, putting people and the planet first are the basics.
People want access, to the basics and to the highest technology, the basics and technology, with quality, safety, honour and respect for people and the planet, stable incomes and manageable expense, good jobs and options for health and education, we can achieve.
In 2018 in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, a group of stakeholders devised the Roadmap to a Blue World. How can we achieve sustainable options, for people. Project by project we provide simple repeatable process to manage successfully.
We lead and achieve excellence. Project Blue World Foundation provides project management and administration service for charitable initiatives. We are a building a school, houses, and educational programming, we develop community gardens, fresh water sources, and will provide electricity and lights in off grid communities to power people, and animals we develop
Together with our partners we are developing solutions to achieve sustainability in Manitoba and around the world.
#projectblueworld#sistercities#people
Driver of change and innovation, consultant and advocate of how social housing can benefit from technology. Founder of Digital Bark. insight shacks and a board member for Muirhouse HA. Columnist for Housing Executive
3wHave a great day Sebastian