IBM pitches ‘smart’ cities as planet savers | Raw Story

IBM pitches ‘smart’ cities as planet savers | Raw Story: "IBM is helping cities worldwide get 'smarter' about using resources in ways that are good for the Earth as well as local budgets.

IBM announced that the coastal Texas town of Corpus Christi has joined cities such as London, Sydney, Stockholm, and Amsterdam in using Internet Age tools to better manage water, trash, parks and more.

'Look at the way the planet is evolving in terms of demographics and environmental considerations,' said Guruduth Banavar, chief technology officer of global public sector efforts at IBM.

'It is pretty easy to see that we need to do some things dramatically differently.'

Urbanization and climbing population are putting stress on the environment, and problems are exacerbated by inefficient uses of energy, water and land."