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In that work, they are also turning to companies like Sidewalk Labs spinoff company Replica, a platform that provides cities with data about their built environment that encompasses mobility, spending habits, land-use, water and energy. The company's "superpower," according to CEO Nick Bowden, is producing privacy-friendly, high-fidelity data to help government agencies make better policies and decisions.

Replica CEO Talks Data Privacy and Lessons Learned From Portland Metro Project | Smart Cities Dive

Cailin Crowe

The Earth is a tiny boat in a vast endless sea, and we have nowhere else to go. We need to employ a kind of eco-realpolitik that refrains from too much righteous judgment, acknowledging that all nation-states are obliged to keep their citizens free from disruption, unemployment and starvation.

Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA

Kim Stanley Robinson

In addition to the well-known exploitation of Chinese immigrant labor to build the transcontinental railroad, rail companies also owned and leased slaves to build much of the track in the pre-Civil War South. After emancipation, they continued exploiting involuntary Black labor through the convict leasing system.

Rail Workers Want Tracks Publicly Owned. Is That So Radical?

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