November 3-4, San Diego served as the host city for Energy Central's inaugural Smart Cities Conference. The event attracted more than 100 attendees from across the nation looking to make connections and gain insights to advance their own smart city initiatives. As the...
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On October 22, Cleantech San Diego Executive Chairman Jim Waring put San Diego in the global spotlight as he addressed a crowd of nearly 300 at the CitySmart Leaders Project in Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane City Council's Sustainability Agency,who hosted the event, said Jim's keynote "gave the audience the opportunity...
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The idea of driving a plug-in electric vehicle (EV) may seem futuristic to the average American. But that’s just not so here in tech-savvy San Diego where we have one of the nation’s highest levels of EV drivers per capita. In fact, the San Diego...
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Meeting of the Minds is an annual conference of urban sustainability and technology advocates and workers working toward smart, sustainable and equitable urban development and redevelopment strategies. This year’s meeting is Oct. 1-2 and is being held in Detroit, Michigan. The sessions are available via...
Read MoreTwo-Year Smart City San Diego Pilot Yields Positive Results; Reflects Regional Rise in Electric Vehicle Drivers SAN DIEGO, CA, August 22, 2014 - San Diego has one of the nation’s highest levels of electric vehicle drivers per capita. Results from a strategically placed infrastructure pilot project...
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The San Diego Climate Collaborative, CleanTECH San Diego, and Qualcomm co-sponsored a Next Generation Street Light Symposium hosted by Supervisor Dave Roberts' Sustainability Team at the County of San Diego. Ed Ebrahimian, Director of the City of Los Angeles's Bureau of Street Lighting (LA BSL)...
Read MoreOn April 26, the documentary project One Day in San Diego (part of One Day on Earth) challenged filmmakers across San Diego to document stories and investigate 10 questions for the future of San Diego as part of a city-wide, participatory media-creation event. Filmmaker Lisa...
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CleanTECH San Diego's Marty Turock represented both the City of San Diego and the San Diego Region Street Light Working Group in a recent presentation at the California Street Light Association (CAL-SLA) Annual Southern California Meeting, which was held at their LA County offices. Turock presented an overview...
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How could cities better connect all their residents to economic opportunity? It's literally the million-dollar question with almost every major tech company spending incredible amounts of resources in the name of connection. The lingo -- smart cities, smarter cities, big data, innovation centers, incubators, hives,...
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