SmartPlanet: Design of Cities Matters — Cuts Emissions!

Building walkable cities cuts emissions more than fuel taxes, study says New Urbanists have advocated walkable cities and shorter commutes for years. But does investing in this approach — what behavioral economists call “smart growth” — simply look good on paper, or does it produce tangible results? It does, according to a new study published …

SmartPlanet: Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy

Urban beekeeping keeps cities healthy   “We need bees for the future of our cities and urban living,” Noah Wilson-Rich said at TEDxBoston.  Wilson-Rich completed his Ph.D. in honeybee health in 2005. In 2006, honeybees started disappearing.  “We don’t even find dead bodies, and it’s bizarre. Researchers still do not know what’s causing it,” says …

J. C. Cole: American Gray Swans May 2020 – Round Two Virus Attack + More Cities Burning in September – October 2020

American Gray Swans – May 2020 Round 2 is coming while our cities burn! Whatever you believe about the Covid 19 issue there is one thing for certain. It is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that our supply chain is vulnerable to collapse. The American Gray Swans simply points out at least 13 …

Betty Boop: #GoogleGestapo — Google Atrocities in Detail

Google — a dictator unlike anything the world has ever known Story at-a-glance Robert Epstein is a Harvard trained psychologist who has exposed how Google is manipulating public opinion through their search engine so they can change the results of elections and many other important areas His research shows how Google is using new techniques …

Review: Augmented Intelligence – Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning

Daniel Araya (editor) 5 Stars Best Available Overview, Most “Experts” Still in Denial Augmented Intelligence is the new meme that goes beyond Collective Intelligence. The editor has done the best possible job of collecting inputs from top people, a few of whom I know such as Jim Spohrer, and I recommend the book without reservation. …

Mongoose: Cities Fighting 5G – 5G Is a Weapons System

Cities and Residents Are Rejecting the Federal Government’s Roll Out of 5G Citizen advocate, Gary Gileno, picked up our feature from last week about three cities in Marin County, California, that rejected the federal 5G roll out. He says that the cities passed ordinances, which carry the force of the law, instead of resolutions that …