Infrastructure

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf penned a letter to Uber executives before they take over the Sears building in Downtown. In it, she urges the company to give back and understand the community.

The Detroit-based NextHome has built a prototype smart home that generates its own energy and distributes the power to interconnected devices.

The lab will explore ideas for reducing the cost of building, buying and owning homes, according to the mayor’s office.

The ‘complete streets’ movement is reshaping urban boulevards, small-town main streets and even rural highways. But there are still plenty of bumps in the road.

Green investments can save money, but appraisers often don't take into account their full value when assessing buildings, a pair of reports from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab asserts.

From smart drones to smart homes to smart cars that drive themselves, the world is dramatically changing all around us. So are governments ready to take advantage of these new innovative opportunities emerging within the Internet of Things (IoT)? Or, as almost everything gets connected to the Internet, could these newly connected devices become “Trojan Horses” that inadvertently bring the next generation of data breaches? What’s being done globally in the public sector with IoT right now?

The city plans to mount sensors on public infrastructure as a tool for attracting business and gathering data for city employees.

Safer roads mean fewer accidents, fewer accidents means lower premiums.

Juneau, Alaska, city officials and commerce partners want electric buses shuttling tourists to its local glacier and electric boats taking them whale watching.

By simulating cities from the "bottom-up," scientists can help us plan for the future.

A new park exhibit is opening to show how an unused trolley station could be put into use. Although inside, the plants are able to receive enough sunlight to grow using a complex system of lenses and mirrors.

The more you look at the California high-speed rail project's finances, the shakier they seem.

Canada's Stephen Harper and Australia's Tony Abbott, both of whom take anti-climate stances, have been displaced. What does this say about climate as a voter issue?

Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturer, has released a statement pledging to produce 400 megawatts of solar power.

The state will pay less for customers' unused solar power, but a green energy advocacy institute says that presents an opportunity for people to use as much of their own power as possible instead of sending it back to the grid.

On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo indicated that Uber might present another occasion for the the state to step in and organize something New York City — and its mayor — couldn't.

The site was intended to provide information about streets and city boundaries, but the idea has grown to encompass several new layers of data.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy named some of the most populous states in the country as having made some of the biggest strides toward energy efficiency in a new report released Wednesday.