- IBM's Integrated Command Center to monitor end-to-end operations of the city

- Focus on Public Safety, Intelligent Operations, and Participative Governance

Landmark event in London is next week - 17, 18 & 19 June

Next week looks set to be an historic time for the energy & environment sector as the only exhibition dedicated to building services in London takes place. For more than two decades, ever since the Green movement started to gain traction worldwide, the commercial retrofit market has been ever elusive.

ZAP (ZAAP), an Electric Vehicle (EV) automotive company incorporated in California and headquartered in Santa Rosa, California has entered into a strategic alliance with Tianjin Battery Company Ltd ("Lishen") www.lishen.com.cn , whereby Lishen will provide financing several thousand full vehicle EV conversion of US EV fleet vehicles using Lishen's latest technology in lithium Ion batteries and ZAP's proprietary patented Vehicle Control Unit (VCU). ZAP, over the last few years has been pursuing the EV fleet market in the US, and developed a custom designed power train for a US delivery fleet with the goal of becoming a supplier to their electric power train which will replace the gasoline ones currently being used.

The scene is set and the carpet will be rolled out from 10-12 June 2014 to welcome visitors from all over the world to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia.

Panasonic acts to advance responsible reuse and recycling of used electronics

Panasonic Corporation of North America is proud to participate as founding partner in the newly created R2 Responsible Recycling Leader Program designed to increase sustainable electronics recycling. The program was announced today by the Sustainable Electronics Recycling Initiative (SERI), which manages the R2 electronics recycling standard and certification process.

NanoMarkets believes that in the past year or so the smart lighting industry has begun to grow up. It has begun to focus on what the opportunities are for its products rather than simply dwelling on technical issues. Our sense of the market is that in the past, next-generation smart lighting firms have been uncourageous about saying how their systems differ from each other and from the previous generation of lighting management systems. We now appear to have reached a stage in the evolution of the smart lighting business, where firms in this space must think hard about what they really have to offer.

Six New GSS™ Sites in the United Kingdom Bring Total Global NEC Grid Battery Installations to Nearly 50MWh

NEC Corporation today announced that NEC Energy Solutions, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced energy storage systems, has completed commissioning of six new GSS™ sites in the United Kingdom for Northern Powergrid. In total, the systems have nearly 2.9MW of power and 5.7MWh of energy storage capacity, and were installed in substations in both urban and rural locations as part of the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR), a three-year smart grid project in the U.K. funded in part through the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets' (Ofgem) Low Carbon Networks Fund. The largest, a 2.5MW, 5MWh GSS™ in Darlington, is located in an urban industrial area, while one of the smallest, a 50kW GSS™, is located in a residential area in Wooler, a small town in the northern part of England.

Voith is strengthening its service offering for power plants by adding another site.

With a new location in the canton of Aarau in Switzerland, the company is targeting local power plants with services such as maintenance, upgrading and inspection. It is the first Voith site for industrial services in Switzerland.

Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Council Takes Top Honors for the Third Straight Year in the Can Manufacturers Institute Recycling Contest

Girls Scouts of Kansas Heartland Council receives National Recycling Champion award in the third annual Great American Can RoundUp (GACR) Scout Council Challenge by recycling 32,199 pounds of aluminum cans and generating more than $16,000 for scouting activities. The top recycling troop of the 2014 GACR Scout Council Challenge, Troop 50244 from Hutchinson, KS, won $500, plus the value of the cans collected for recycling nearly 1,500 pounds of aluminum per scout.

The SE4ALL Africa Hub convened representatives of the Eastern, Central and Southern African Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) focus countries for a workshop on the development of SE4ALL Action Agendas and Investment Prospectuses in Addis Ababa from May 29-30. The meeting took place following a successful launch of the Action Agenda process for the ECOWAS region in March and the Africa Launch of the SE4ALL Decade during the African Development Bank's Annual Meetings in Kigali.

Winners of the 10th Ricoh Sustainable Development Award prove sustainability and good business are entirely compatible

Derived from plants, biofuel is an environmentally sustainable approach to the world's energy needs, but its production is generally too inefficient and expensive to effectively compete with fossil fuels.

ProCom, the Finnish Association of Communications Professionals, has awarded the Biofore Concept Car project by UPM and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences as the Communications Campaign of the year.

The Biofore Concept Car — showcased at the International Geneva Motor Show in March — demonstrates the innovative use of biomaterials in the car industry. In the Concept Car, the majority of parts traditionally made from plastic have been replaced with durable, high quality biomaterials — UPM Formi and UPM Grada —  and the vehicle runs on UPM's renewable wood-based diesel, UPM BioVerno.