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/

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