With more focus on climate change, emissions and carbon footprints in recent years, cities large and small have increasingly looked toward the concept of a “circular city” to help build frameworks to ...

The future of sustainable cities might begin in Brooklyn. New Lab, the 84,000-square-foot innovation hub in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, announced last week it will host the 2020 iteration of an annual ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new report and vision issued by the New York Circular City Initiative recommends a series of measures to the City, its businesses and financial institutions to accelerate ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and New Lab announced the launch of the 2020 edition of the Circular City program to test and pilot ...

A group in New York City has challenged startups to make buildings there more energy efficient while also reducing waste. This group is New Lab, which is a tech hub located in Brooklyn, and it is ...

Brooklyn Navy Yard-based innovation hub Newlab on Wednesday unveiled the results of its second Circular City Studio program, a collaboration launched in 2018 with the New York City Economic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anne Field covers impact entrepreneurship and impact investing. New York City is the second largest city in the world in terms of ...

Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, that number is expected to increase to two-thirds. More people living in condensed areas means higher amounts of waste, higher resource ...

Yokohama city's circular city model has various activities - treatment of garbage, waste recycling, disassemble rebuilding architecture, reuse of unused clothing, reduction of food loss, sustainable ...