ecological awareness

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The app helps people track their garbage and recycling collection days with notifications and tips. The app was developed by Vancouver company Recollect using the City's open data.

The Regent Street Delivery Consolidation Scheme has reduced delivery trips by 74 per cent, CO2 by 10 tonnes per annum, and improved air quality and reduced noise on this busy street. Since its implementation, there has been an 80 per cent reduction in lorry movements associated with Regent Street. The Swallow Street Refuse Scheme has reduced refuse lorry movements by 75 per cent and increased recycling rates to over 70 per cent.

Parts of the street will function as a role model for modern forms of energy saving and production methods as well as on electronic transportation devices and their recharging equipment. The street shall demonstrate that with the present stage of technology development a climate friendly energy management and urban transportation is under the conditions of market prices possible.

Utrechtsestraat Climate street. In the Climate street we will determine which technologies, cooperative agreements and approaches are the most successful to make the city's (shopping) streets more sustainable on a large scale. With the aim of realizing CO2 reduction and environmental saving in the street. Carrying out and implementing sustainable solutions are central in this approach. The focus of sustainable solutions lies in three main areas: entrepreneurs, the public space and the logistics.

People are hardly aware of their energy use. This is often due to the fact that it is not visible in their homes. No attention is paid to devices that consume a lot of energy often causing these devices to be on stand-by unnecessarily. In the project Geuzenveld Sustainable Neighborhood smart technologies were tested that ought to change this tendency. More than five hundred houses dating from the fifties were provided with smart meters and some of them with an additional energy feedback display.

Gaasperdam is moving towards a process of innovative urban renewal. Bottom-up, using their energy of residents and the qualities already available in the area. Local people’s energy is an available commodity; residents have declared that they are aware of their local environment and want to work towards a better living space for the community.

The Municipality of Zaanstad has negotiated a new energy contract, that saves energy, stimulates the local production of renewables, and reduces energy costs substantially. The young energy company GreenChoice was selected as a contract partner for the coming years. The contract stipulates that the energy consumption of the Municipality will be reduced a full 15 % in the first two years. Greenchoice profits when a further reduction is realised, an innovative element in the contract that gives the energy company a clear interest in energy savings.

QwikSense allows companies to measure the quality of work environments by providing custom-made devices that track CO2 levels, temperature, humidity, air pressure and other relevant factors. Based on that data, relevant suggestions can be done to improve the environment, and save energy in the process.

Verdiem Surveyor from Aptean helps accurately measure PC and Mac energy consumption, enforce policies for greater energy efficiency, and optimize savings.  Verdiem Surveyor delivers the most accurate data on IT device utilization. The patented solution combines keyboard, mouse, CPU, print network and disk activity to build a highly accurate model of device utilization that is the only independently verified and validated solution.