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From A to Z
General Innovations
- CBC Spends Last Week of November Covering Infrastructure
- Construction Canada
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities
- GAIA: Innovative Solutions for Sustainability
- Ground Effects Environmental Services Inc.
- Institute for Citizen-Centered Services
- Living Cities
- MnROAD – Minnesota’s Cold Weather Road Research Facility
- Municipal World: Canada’s Municipal Magazine
- Muniscope
- Ontario Municipal Knowledge Network
- ReNew Canada: The Infrastructure Renewal Magazine
- SABMag: Sustainable Architecture and Building Magazine
- Solar Roadways
- Taking the Waste out of Wastewater (The NewYorkTimes Sunday Review)
- Smaller Cities: Setting the Pace for the Next Wave of Innovation and Growth (Building a Smarter Planet) *NEW*
- Sustainable Cities Collective: The World’s Best Thinkers on the Urban Future
- TERRA: Transportation Engineering and Road Research Alliance
- Unreasonable@Sea (Vimeo)
- Water Online
- Windmill Developments
Innovative Finances
- A recent spike: Canada’s abandoned railway lines given second life by search for cheaper transport (National Post)
- Character is Key to an Economically Vibrant City (The Atlantic Cities: Place Matters)
- Chicago embarks on $7 billion infrastructure plan (Bloomberg Business Week)
- Financing Stormwater Retrofits in Philadelphia and Beyond (Natural Resources Defense Council)
- The Major Dividends Cities Reap from Investing in Green Infrastructure (GreenBiz.com)
- Ohio Congressman Gibbs Urges Creation Of WIFIA Finance Tool To Reduce Water Infrastructure Costs (Water Online)
- On Top of the World (SaskBusiness pg.6-14)
- ReNew Canada’s Top 100 Infrastructure Projects (Renew Canada)
- Report Taps into Innovative Financing to Secure Future for Sustainable Water Infrastructure (Water Online)
- Sustainability in Water and Wastewater Facilities Optimizes Electrical Generation Requirement (Water Online)
- Western Canadian Municipalities Seek more Investment in Infrastructure (Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities)
Innovative Policies
- American Water And City Of Elizabeth, N.J. Earn Outstanding Public/Private Partnership Award From U.S. Conference Of Mayors (Water Online)
- Britain to consider privatising roads (Reuters)
- Building for Prosperity: Public Infrastructure in Canada (Government of Canada)
- Can Cupcakes Inspire Collaborative Consumption in our Cities? (Sustainable Cities Collective)
- Cities breaking down departmental barriers to improve future infrastructure (National Post)
- CitiesMatter.ca (City of Calgary)
- Don’t Reinvent the Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities that Copy (Good Cities)
- EPA Develops New Planning Approach to Improve Water Quality in U.S. Cities (Water Online)
- Infrastructure 2012 Highlights Innovative Solutions At State, Regional, Local Level; Points To Impact Of Recession On Infrastructure Funding Worldwide (Water Online)
- Infrastructure Key to Rebuilding America (ABC News)
- NLC’s City Showcase Highlights Innovative Infrastructure Program (National League of Cities)
- Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Asphalt Mixtures: State of the Practice (U.S. Department of Transportation)
- Toward greener, smarter cities (Globeadvisory.com)
- Why the Federal Government Should Give More Power to Mayors (The Atlantic Cities: Place Matters)
Innovative Technologies
- 6 Amazing Ways to Use Shipping Pallets in Architecture (Inhabitat: Design Will Save the World)
- A Novel Approach to Nitrate Removal (APT Water)
- Achieving Reuse Quality Water Using Multiple-Barrier Treatment (Aqua-Aerobics Systems, Inc.)
- Ancient ‘air-conditioning’ cools building sustainably (CNN)
- Architects float answers to rising seas around the world (Green Bay Press Gazette) *NEW*
- Are Megacities Sustainable? (ZD Net)
- Are Urban Microcenters the Solution to Urban Sprawl? (Sustainable Cities Collective)
- Asphalt recycling pulls material from roads and roofs (American Recycler)
- Axion International Receives Purchase Order to Supply Materials for First Plastic Bridge Used in Public Highway Applications in the U.S. (Public Works.com)
- Bushman Rainwater Systems (EcoShift)
- Canadian engineering innovations 2012: Earthquake-proofing skyscrapers (Toronto Star)
- Creating buildings that repair themselves (Culture Lab)
- Development of a Weigh-Pad Based Portable WIM System (University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Study)
- EcoLibra: Ecologically Balanced Systems (Galex Group)
- Electropure (EPT) Water Treatment (Ground Effects Environmental Services Inc.)
- Experts Recommend the Inclusion of Rainwater Collection Systems in Cities (Water Online)
- Green Building in Zimbabwe Modeled After Termite Mounds (Inhabitat: Design Will Save the World)
- Green Caterpillar House by Feldman Architecture (Architecture4Us)
- How technology in cities can help deliver a sustainable future (The Guardian)
- Impressive Denver study on equity & transit should become national model (Switchboard)
- Innovative Greywater Project Begins Pilot Plant Testing (University of Regina)
- Introducing Spongephalt: A Game Changer for Roads that Doesn’t Exist Yet (This Big City
- Italian engineer invents floating solar panels (Physorg.com)
- LWR – Livestock Water Recycling (Livestock Water Recycling)
- Mainstream Water Solutions (Mainstream Water Solutions Inc.)
- Modern Architecture Goes Back to Basics to Encourage Community to Consider Building with Natural Materials (PRWeb: Online Visibility from Vocus)
- Modular Sustainable Architecture by Compos Leckie Studio (Minimalisti)
- ‘Natural builders’ take green building one step further (Daily Journal of Commerce) *NEW*
- New York’s underground park of the future (BBC News)
- The Next Frontier: Automating by Water Quality (Water Online)
- Palm Desert Architect: Not Green, These Solutions Are Smart (Palm Desert Patch)
- The Path Less Traveled: Research is Driving Solutions to Improve Unpaved Roads (Public Works)
- Pedestrian Safety: How Innovative Tech Could Save Your Life (Mashable Tech)
- Study Advocates Burning Garbage to make Cement (Canadian Consulting Engineer)
- The Top 10 Smart Cities On The Planet (Co.Exist)
- Rainwater Collection and Harvesting Systems (Rain Water Connection Ltd.)
- RainXchange: Rainwater Harvest Systems (Aquascape Inc.)
- Reuse of Municipal Wastewater has Significant Potential to Augment Future U.S. Drinking Water Supplies (Water Online)
- Revolutionary Wastewater Disinfection System – TrojanUVSigna – Selected By Missouri Site (Water Online)
- Siemen’s Innovative Solutions to be Displayed at Light+Building (AzoBuilding)
- Sixty-Two Miles of Electric Highway Planned (Treehugger: A Discover Company)
- Solar Roadways: The Prototype (YouTube)
- TEC-Water Supplies Inc. (TEC-Water Supplies Inc.)
- TEDxSacramento – Scott Brusaw – The Promise of Solar Roadways (YouTube)
- The Vento (SAB Mag)
- Toronto Island Tunnel doubles for sewage infrastructure (Canadian Consulting Engineer)
- Trends in Focus: Understanding Technology & Civic Change (Living Cities)
- Urban Stormwater Analysis: Entering the 2nd and 3rd Dimension (Water Online)
- Waste Management, Inc. Constructs Organics Recycling Facility at its Apopka Solid Waste Landfill (Solid Waste.com)
- Water Distribution System Security Monitoring (Real Tech Inc.)
- Why Green Infrastructure Makes Cities Awesome (Sustainable Cities Collective)
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