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The Time for Cities is Now
By Conor Riffle, Senior Vice President of Smart Cities at Rubicon In recent years, cities have faced a myriad of challenges. From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, municipal services have struggled under budget cuts, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, and inflation.
How Real-Time Data Reshaped Houston’s Solid Waste Department
The City of Houston, Texas, was facing mounting waste management challenges, with service interruptions, inefficient routes and costly go-back trips. To address these issues, the fourth largest city in the United States turned to Rubicon to help enhance the efficiency of its massive fleet of nearly 400 waste and recycling vehicles. This is how Houston’s Solid Waste Department leveraged real-time data to become responsive and efficient for the City’s more than 2.3 million residents.
How municipalities can better manage snow events
How municipalities can better manage snow events Rubicon uses powerful high-density routing software to effectively support city operations and promote safer communities. Rubicon® is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling, and provider of innovative software-based solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. Our mission is to end waste by turning businesses into more sustainable enterprises, and communities into greener and smarter places to live and work.
The resourceful city: Taking a circular approach to resources
Editor's note: This article was originally published Oct. 19, 2022 This article is sponsored by Rubicon These innovative ideas successfully challenge the 2,000-year-old method of using landfills for waste disposal. Just outside the picturesque capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sits a steep mountain of trash. Surrounded on all sides by settlements tucked in among the verdant green of Ethiopia’s capital region, the mountain stands out. It towers over the nearby highway and homes.
Why Water is the Sharp End of the Climate Change Stick
Earlier this year, the city government of Bangkok reported its greenhouse gas emissions and other climate change-related information to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Its analysis of the risks that the city faces from climate change is proving prescient: "The tide from the Gulf of Thailand affects the water level in the Chao Phraya River and can rise to 2.1 meters (mean sea level).
What artificial intelligence means for sustainability
Media hype aside, real evidence shows that artificial intelligence (AI) already drives a major shift in the global economy. You now use it in your day-to-day life, as you look to Netflix to recommend your next binge or ask Alexa to play music in your home. And the benefits of AI are driving the technologies into every corner of the global economy. Look, for example, at the number of times the largest U.S. companies mention artificial intelligence in their 10-K filings.
What artificial intelligence means for sustainability
It’s hard to open a newspaper these days without encountering an article on the arrival of artificial intelligence. Predictions about the potential of this new technology are everywhere. Media hype aside, real evidence shows that artificial intelligence (AI) already drives a major shift in the global economy. You now use it in your day-to-day life, as you look to Netflix to recommend your next binge or ask Alexa to play music in your home.
Global cities facing many key risks
The world’s cities are home to 54 percent (4 billion) of the earth’s total population; by 2050, that percentage is projected to increase to 66 percent.
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