Cisco and City of Amsterdam Expand Urban EcoMap Program Globally to Address Environmental Concerns
Cisco and the city of Amsterdam today announced the rollout of Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities around the world to provide smarter climate change information for their citizens. A city can use Urban EcoMap to create awareness among its residents of the impact of carbon emissions on their urban environment. It provides information on carbon emissions from transportation, energy and waste among neighborhoods, organized by district, and delivers tips on ways to reduce a resident’s carbon footprint.
The application is an extension of the Urban EcoMap launched in May 2009 in the city of San Francisco. The Amsterdam version of the Urban EcoMap will be progressively expanded over the next six months with real-time information that is linked to data from other agencies.
Urban EcoMap provides information on carbon emissions from transportation, energy and waste among neighborhoods, organized by district.
The application now enables comparisons between the two cities of Amsterdam and San Francisco, on an aggregated residential per capita CO2 basis, and proportionally by the categories of Transportation, Energy and Waste.
Join us in the drive towards reducing our individual CO2 emissions to 2 tonnes by 2050, across the world.
This is the next step in the development of the application. Let us know your thoughts and ideas on how the application can develop, continue to innovate and scale globally.
Launch of the Urban EcoMap application in San Francisco
Welcome to the launch of the Urban EcoMap for the citizens of San Francisco. Following the preview of the application during Earth Day last month, we are excited to provide the live version from today.
Thanks for the feedback from the preview. Please go to http://sf.urbanecomap.org and let us if it will help you understand your neighborhood’s carbon footprint. We hope this application will enable visualizations of data that can inform your personal eco-decisions.
Urban EcoMap is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development (CUD) framework for Connected and Sustainable Cities. This application is today being presented to the global community of cities, urban planners, businesses and academics who are attending the CUD Global Conference in Seoul, South Korea. The CUD partners plan to scale this application globally to other cities, in the partnership and beyond.
We thankyou for your interest and look forward to your engagement at the start of the development of this innovative vizualisation of cities carbon footprints
Earth Day Showcase of Urban EcoMap in San Francisco
Cities create 80% of global carbon emissions. As we move from educating people about climate change to taking action to mitigate climate impacts, we need innovation to help spur a shift to climate-friendly social behavior in cities. Urban EcoMap helps address this objective.
Begun in fall 2008, this pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco and the City and County of San Francisco. San Francisco is the first city worldwide to introduce the Urban EcoMap.
On Earth Day 2009 (22 April), Mayor Gavin Newsom launched the Urban EcoMap pilot in San Francisco. The web-based tool will be made available to the general public at the Connected Urban Development conference in Seoul, 21st May 2009.
Please view the demonstration of the Urban EcoMap San Francisco in the viewer above. We would like to hear your feedback and comments. In addition, please return here for the latest information as the public go-live day for the web-based Urban EcoMap approaches.
This is so awesome. Having this information will make any presentation to Business owners or Home owners understand about their carbon emissions. I will be using Urban Ecomap on a daily basis.
Thanks
IMHO, most people in our society haven’t yet made the connection that where you live determines to a large part your daily lifestyle and routine, which in turn determines to a large part your impact on our environment… this tool will hopefully be a great help to start pushing us toward making those connections.
Looking forward to seeing the full blown release. Also looking forward to more complete data, rather than just focusing on SF – which is one of the densest cities in the states and definitely not a typical living environment for the vast majority of American society. The most benefit from this kind of comparison comes from comparing rural with suburban with urban, rather than just urban with urban. Great work, keep it up.
Great idea. Have you considered building an Urban EcoMap that measures the entire ecological footprint of a zip code, rather than carbon footprint only? This would incorporate not only carbon, but also other land types.
This is very exciting – looking forward to the full launch. We all need to focus on our part in helping to save this planet for the future generations. It has treated me well so far and I would like to return the favor.
Great! I’m working on a climate change exhibit for a museum in North Carolina and I was just thinking how much better it would be to have a carbon calculator that said “Hey, everybody’s doin’ it” instead of “You’re bad if you don’t do it.”
What will it take to get Urban EcoMaps for other cities?
Hey San Francisco Peeps…very cool! We here at Sustainable Seattle are watching you guys very closely, very closely indeed. Let the city and neighborhood carbon challenge begin!
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pretty cool stuff cant wait to see it may 21
jp on April 22, 2009 at 9:42 am
This is so awesome. Having this information will make any presentation to Business owners or Home owners understand about their carbon emissions. I will be using Urban Ecomap on a daily basis.
Thanks
Gustavo Samayoa on April 22, 2009 at 10:25 am
Excellent!
IMHO, most people in our society haven’t yet made the connection that where you live determines to a large part your daily lifestyle and routine, which in turn determines to a large part your impact on our environment… this tool will hopefully be a great help to start pushing us toward making those connections.
Looking forward to seeing the full blown release. Also looking forward to more complete data, rather than just focusing on SF – which is one of the densest cities in the states and definitely not a typical living environment for the vast majority of American society. The most benefit from this kind of comparison comes from comparing rural with suburban with urban, rather than just urban with urban. Great work, keep it up.
Michael Fogel on April 22, 2009 at 11:15 am
Great idea. Have you considered building an Urban EcoMap that measures the entire ecological footprint of a zip code, rather than carbon footprint only? This would incorporate not only carbon, but also other land types.
bree on April 22, 2009 at 11:24 am
This is very exciting – looking forward to the full launch. We all need to focus on our part in helping to save this planet for the future generations. It has treated me well so far and I would like to return the favor.
Geri Rayca on April 22, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Great! I’m working on a climate change exhibit for a museum in North Carolina and I was just thinking how much better it would be to have a carbon calculator that said “Hey, everybody’s doin’ it” instead of “You’re bad if you don’t do it.”
What will it take to get Urban EcoMaps for other cities?
Eileen C on April 22, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I like the idea. Perhaps they can add voluntary/optional information such as:
What kind of trash cans do you use?
Garbage: Small, Regular, X-Large
Recycle: Small, Regular, X-Large
Compost: Small, Regular, X-Large
How often do you Recycle / Compost (seperate Qs)?
- Weekly
- Bi-weekly
- Occasionally
- Never
And provide option to publish (anonymize) electricity and gas consumption (or generation)
Can this link to the http://sf.solarmap.org/ by any chance as well?
Mehmet Orun on April 22, 2009 at 10:40 pm
This is awesome — any chance of this pilot project coming to Los Angeles soon?
Moe on April 23, 2009 at 12:08 am
This is great stuff! It would be fantastic if this project can cover the Alameda County also!
Kev on April 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hey San Francisco Peeps…very cool! We here at Sustainable Seattle are watching you guys very closely, very closely indeed. Let the city and neighborhood carbon challenge begin!
Sustainable Sean on April 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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