Our solution is an add-on kit that will have the capability to generate and store energy from renewable sources, provide wifi and electric outlets to residents, and increase community engagement. We plan to lease the streetlights from their owner and customize it based of the needs of their respective community. Each city light with the add-on kits will be equipped with EV charging stations, have capability to generate and store energy from renewable sources, provide wifi and electric outlets to residents, and increase community engagement. Our model of revenue will be through user memberships, pay per use charges, advertising, and selling the excess energy to the city. StreetLight kit of parts are the add-on to existing street lights. It gives flexibility for the owners to select specific streetlight to be leased. By providing multiple options of packages, the model promises scalability, it could fit into any cities in any geographic areas. We also use sustainably sourced or recycled materials for all our …
As cities strive to for an all-encompassing urban wellbeing, what role do inhabitants, visionaries and governments play in guiding us to find the intersection between sustainable environment, cultural lifestyle, and community? It’s always a challenge to bring a diverse group of people together to come to an agreement. The Living City Experiment addresses these complex issues by opening communication to create a greater understanding of the how decision makers, visionaries, and residents are currently interacting within cities. Our Objective: The Living City Experiment was created to provide a city's decision makers (ie. government leaders, legislators) and visionaries (ie. architects, urban planners) a framework to build a human centered city in order to bridge the divide between liveability and sustainability. It delivers enlightenment, community, duty and harmony to help better understand cities and its inhabitants’ (decision takers) needs. We imagine engaging cities that bring people together for conv…
EarthPact seeks to engage people in learning about their environmental footprint and prompt them to change their ways to reduce their ecological footprint. There are 5 physical, educational, and interactive exhibits, one for each topic area of the ecological footprint: food, shelter, mobility, goods, and services. EarthPact SF’s exhibits are located in Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco, California and the exhibits also serve to activate the plaza, which is currently a ghost space most of the time. In addition to the series of exhibits, there’s an EarthPact app that people log into to track their footprint scores at each of the 5 stations. Each exhibit ties in a pledge to get participants to commit to change their behavior. The app allows people to complete the exhibits in one or multiple visits, track changes over time, receive reminders about their commitment to change, receive tips on how to lead a more sustainable lifestyle, and serve as a way to track metrics and see the collective impact of people’s …
Cultivar is the "AirBNB of gardens" - a garden sharing service served through an online platform (website and app) CULTIVAR builds more healthy, transparent and engaged communities by connecting people with little access to space and as a result little ability to garden, apartment dwellers, to those with access, home and land owners.CULTIVAR aims to dissolve the binary world of public and private space in an effort to build more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable communities for everyone. What CULTIVAR Does: - Connects people who are looking for space to garden with those who have excess and/or underutilized space that they would enjoy seeing being made use of. - This encourages community connection through increased opportunities for interaction with neighbors. - Reduces isolation and the associated negative health implications - Increases the amount of land being used to grow food and other plants in urban areas - Creates an urban collective of grower / farmers - Increases food …