Corporate Solutions for Sustainable Cities

 

Sustainable cities - the Siemens Way

Read the entire article and watch the videos at http://www.usa.siemens.com/sustainable-cities/

The challenges presented by sustainable urban development are immense. In 2010, 82 percent of Americans lived in cities; by 2050 it will be 90 percent. Cities are responsible for around two thirds of the energy used, 60 percent of all water consumed and 70 percent of all

For a real-world look at how our solutions can be implemented today, please download "Smarter Neighborhoods, Smarter City". This report contains detailed recommendations on how to help America's largest urban area - the City of New York - plan for more sustainable growth. You can also view the Clean Energy Solution survey results conducted in cooperation with The U.S. Conference of Mayors and sponsored by Siemens in order to understand how to address today’s urbanization challenges. Just how sustainable North American Cities are today, you can see in the “US and Canada Green City Index”.

Building Cities, Building Futures: Improved transportation, green buildings, water conservation and reuse and smart grid infrastructure are just a few of the technologies helping to achieve sustainable environmental development in cities.

The Siemens Sustainable Communities Awards

In an effort to recognize communities that are leading the way in sustainable development, Siemens has partnered with the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) to recognize communities that are successfully taking on the challenges of 21st century sustainable development. For this, the company has created the Siemens Sustainable Community Awards

Building Cities, Building Futures

Our vision of a sustainable city at the Sustainable Cities Tour.

The Siemens city tour wanted to highlight the challenges our cities face and brought together leaders from various areas of expertise to help provide insight into the solutions and programs that can help make these cities more lasting, livable and prosperous. The interactive tour illustrated how Siemens solutions can help foster the sustainable development of cities. Visitors didn’t just learn all about sustainable cities and communities – they experienced them first hand.