Water as a source of city heat

River Heatmap: showing where heat pumps could make a useful contribution

There are two shining examples of this technology in practice in the UK: a 2MW installation at Kingston Heights on the River Thames in London and a 300kW one at Plas Newydd on the Menai Straits in north Wales.

Biodiversity and corporate sustainability

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2014/06/biodiversity-next-step-sustainability.html#more-30912

In terms of innovation and opportunity, businesses have invented a number of ways to use biodiversity to create value. These are just a few of the more popular ideas:

• Market biodiversity and its protection as a key value proposition to customers
• Leverage cross-sector partnerships to promote transparency
• Look to big data to support decision-making
• Utilize natural processes to replace cost-side efforts
• Build new products inspired by or directly using biodiversity and biomimicry
• Account for biodiversity as a revenue-generating asset

Read more here:

New Sensors

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edyn/edyn-welcome-to-the-connected-garden

People for Smarter Cities, water examples

http://people4smartercities.com/series/big-buy-how-city-and-its-citizens-got-smart-about-water

How models help understand climate change

https://www.ted.com/talks/gavin_schmidt_the_emergent_patterns_of_climate_change

Surveying sewers with little risk

I could see this surveying sewer systems in minutes without getting wet:

The video is worth seeing to understand its agility and accuracy

http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters

When water quality data goes public

Kickstarter funded smart infrastructure

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029546/with-googles-help-nycs-floating-river-pool-will-tell-us-how-much-poop-is-in-the-water?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcoexist%2Ffeed+%28Co.Exist%29

Major infrastructure often requires biodiversity offsetting

The real game is Net Positive Gain for the environment because all business, especially the water industry is a wholly owned subsidiary of the natural environment

This explains what offsetting  is is all about:
https://royalsociety.org/events/2013/biodiversity-offsetting/

https://royalsociety.org/~/media/Royal_Society_Content/z_events/2013/policylab/bee-to-size.jpg

More on the potential for 3D concrete printing

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140414-new-photos-of-10-green-3d-printed-houses-in-shanghai-built-in-24-hours.html

Space for water

http://thomortiz.tumblr.com/post/16464679470/nastassiaxv-open-air-theater-and-rain-water

fuel-cell-gets-the-power-out-of-poo

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/fuel-cell-gets-the-power-out-of-poo/5307514

To treat wastewater  takes  about:1,800 kilojoules. (half a kilowatt hour per metre cubed)

The wastewater itself contains about : 7,600 kilojoules of energy in each metre cubed 

If you want to stop people putting wetwipes into the sewer system causing blockages, you need Design Thinking akin to IDEO:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ideo-partner-fred-dust-on/id775460758?i=202308003&mt=2

ESG necessary for investment

ESG the new phrase for sustainability
Environment, Social and Governance. Without it investment is high risk.

How to get Ketchup out of a bottle

Could this transform blockages at key locations in the sewer network?

How to get ketchup out of a bottle..

Amusing but important - why business is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature: Natural Capital explained