The new challenges of the transition to green energy demand new ways of thinking, says, Elena Bou, InnoEnergy, and that requires attracting a more diverse range of people into the industry.
The City of Boston has received $5m in grant funding and has been contributing to the Commonwealth’s broader efforts of ensuring digital equity across the state.
The new roofs feature drought-resistant plantings that will help provide shade, improve air quality, increase stormwater retention, and add new green space.
The project uses artificial intelligence to model traffic patterns and create signal timing recommendations that can reduce stop-and-go traffic and emissions.
The goals of the e-bike pilot are to address historic inequities in transportation access, and accelerate mode shift to sustainable modes of transportation.
The establishment of the new department is a major piece of mayor Wu’s vision to transform planning and development and create a green and growing city.
The chief climate officer is charged with leading the mayor’s climate action agenda and co-leading a new Climate Cabinet alongside Boston’s Green New Deal director.
All of these companies are building smart cities technology solutions to issues confronting quality of life in communities across the state of Colorado.
Installed by cleantech integrator and developer Ameresco on top of the US university’s Snell Library, it will provide 157.78 kWp DC of power for the building.
It builds upon completion of the street tree inventory and efforts to inventory trees in parks, providing critical information on Boston’s urban tree canopy.
New system will replace existing gas distribution service with an electric heat system, supporting the City’s goal to decarbonise public housing by 2030.
Supporting Go Boston 2030’s goal of encouraging low-emission modes of travel, the bikes are available to any City employee for attending meetings across town.
The programme provides Bostonians with the option of directly reducing their own carbon footprints and is a core part of the city’s climate action plan.
Boston is enhancing its tree canopy and bolstering workforce opportunities in community forestry via the US Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Grant.
The Genasys platform will allow the City to send emergency notifications to specific geographic areas and citizen lists through single or multiple channels.
Digital kiosk provider Soofa is working with Boston Environment Department to implement an air quality widget that provides access to vital health information.
Executive order signed by Michelle Wu, which aligns with the New Green New Deal for Boston, also applies to major renovations of existing City-owned buildings.
Through two requests for proposals, the City will evaluate the market for businesses to partner to bolster the number of public, kerbside charging stations
The Safety Surge initiative will bring traffic calming infrastructure to every neighbourhood in Boston and will include speed bumps and redesigned intersections.
EcoSmart Solutions and Rise will develop zero-energy-capable mixed-use and life science real estate projects across Boston, based on geothermal infrastructure.
Building on the Climate Ready Boston initiative, the City will work with Army Corps Engineers to conduct the Coastal Storm Risk Management feasibility study.
Covid-19 continues to have a disproportionate impact within communities so data will be used to help inform strategies and ensure equity in the city’s response.
ABI Research said the single most important benefit of green urban infrastructure is its role in making cities more resilient against climate change impacts.
The City of Boston will utilise the Green New Deal principles in action to meet climate goals while spurring local economic growth in the energy sector.
A new policy requires that certain projects in the Massachusetts city include environmental benefits and stormwater mitigation through the use of green infrastructure.
The plan will be based on the findings of the city’s recent digital equity assessment and seeks to ensure all citizens thrive with improved access to digital technologies.
The redevelopment of the city’s South Station, which has involved more than four decades of planning and collaboration among city, state and federal agencies, enters its next phase.
During peak times, people on bikes regularly make up 10-25 per cent of all Boston traffic and research shows more will ride if they have access to separated bike lanes.
The framework strategies will guide the development of coastal flood protection, strengthen Boston’s work to become the greenest city in the country, and improve the quality of life for residents and visitors.
In the newly created role, Diana Fernandez Bibeau is charged with executing “a human-scale and inclusive vision” for the design of the built environment across the city.
The solar power programme will reduce costs for solar panel installation while the Community First Partnership will expand energy efficiency and renewable energy opportunities for environmental justice communities.
With cities on the frontline of climate change, it is vital that we continue to see new initiatives, strategies and policies forming globally to combat pollution and heat, and become more resilient and sustainable over time.
Heat Plan is a critical component of Climate Ready Boston, the City’s initiative to prepare for the near- and long-term effects of climate change, including sea level rise, extreme precipitation and extreme heat.
Boston Public Schools will launch an electric school bus pilot programme with an initial procurement of 20 buses, using its operating budget and funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.
10 World Trade, a 17-storey, nearly $600m life science and office building under development in Boston’s Seaport District, will be enclosed with floor-to-ceiling smart windows from View.
Samsara’s tools, which are already in use in Boston and Syracuse, aim to maximise service efficiency and enable cities to gain visibility into the location and status of vehicles such as snowploughs.
The Neighbourhood of Affordable Housing project will deploy air quality sensors and air filters at local businesses, community hubs and qualifying households in East Boston.
After fares were eliminated in August 2021 on one of the chosen routes, ridership increased to more than 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels with over 12,000 riders every day.
New funding will provide free access to wireless broadband service and devices to help public housing seniors and residents get online and will also provide Chromebook laptops to students.
Designed to encourage and support cities to ramp up their climate action and ambition, the A list is based on environmental data disclosed by cities to the CDP-ICLEI unified reporting system.
The financial awards go to two community-based organisations behind locally driven projects that are bringing meaningful improvements to air quality in the city.
Winston Pierre, diversity programmes and outreach director for the City of Boston, explains why it’s critical that cities break down conversations around climate change and diversity into real terms for citizens in order to bring them on board with holistic climate action plans.
As well as the SMS chatbot, mayor Kim Janey has also announced an online food donations platform in response to goals in Boston’s Food Access Agenda to strengthen the citywide food access network.
After conversations with neighbourhood residents and community leaders, Boston Transportation Department has selected eight new locations for Bluebikes stations in Hyde Park.
The win was attributed to strong technology application, digital capability and pandemic performance and, for the first time in 14 years, more than half of the top 100 cities were from the US.
Using the B-Local mobile app, shoppers earn rewards automatically at hundreds of participating local businesses across the city which can be converted to cash discounts.
The programme aims to incentivise employees returning to work and workers who currently drive to work to use public transit and also seeks to lessen vehicular traffic.
Solar canopy at Boston Police Headquarters completes the first round of energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades across City of Boston buildings.
Landscape architecture firm Stoss Landscape Urbanism and forestry consultant Urban Canopy Works have been selected to co-lead the effort to develop the 20-year plan.
A majority of the responses indicated a plan to return to pre-pandemic commuting choices and, of those who did plan to switch, more plan to change to driving alone than any other mode.
This was one of the messages from the Menino Survey of Mayors, the only national representative survey of America’s mayors conducted annually by Boston University’s Initiative on Cities.
It will form a critical component of the Climate Ready Boston initiative, which aims to develop resilient solutions to prepare the city for the effects of climate change.
The 20-year vision will set citywide goals for canopy protection as well as help to tackle climate change and enhance the quality of life for all Bostonians.
The company is entering the US electrification market and is already working with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to help it electrify a portion of its new fleet.
The 2020 Smart City Index measures citizens’ perceptions of the impact that technology has on their lives, surveying them on areas such as governance, health and safety, mobility and opportunities.
The new office will help entrepreneurs develop their innovations and reduce time to market by providing direct access to more than 500 industrial partners in its ecosystem.
In the 18 months since launch, more than 10 new datasets have been made publicly available across the industry, helping to build “safer, more educated” autonomous vehicles.
Deployment of the tricycle forms part of the city’s work to reduce emissions from municipal sources and is intended to support city staff performing their daily tasks.
