Sustainable Cities
summary
Cities require tripled electrical capacity in dense cores yet putting new cable is slow so the panel describes concrete fixes: reuse waste heat from data centers and supermarkets to cover about 50% of local heating, peak shaving by aggregating household and EV batteries to avoid new grid build, and city-level data-sharing platform to cut office weekend consumption. Buildings today cut embodied carbon ~50% from a decade ago and 80% of real estate work will be retrofit not new build but permits and trust failures like the Toronto pilot block progress.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:59Cities and climate change
- 6:12Electrification challenges
- 10:02Construction and carbon
- 11:25Remote work impact
- 14:37Sustainable city examples
- 15:43Smart cities future
- 19:52Policy for sustainability
- 23:06Summary
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