Smart cities: beyond the low hanging fruit

July 23, 2009: 10:25 AM ET

What comes after "no brainers" in the quest to build smarter cities?

Michael Copeland's terrific panel at FORTUNE Brainstorm: Tech offered attendees a look at the ways cities are addressing pressing problems cities face: traffic, pollution, overcrowding, clean water, etc. The panelists -- Clinton Climate Initiative chairman Ira Magaziner, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior, Sun's Greg Papadopolous and Hara CEO Amit Chatterjee -- seemed to agree that there are so many solutions cities can implement without getting the buy in of citizens and corporations. (Fixing pipes in Paris, for example, to reduce water waste.) 

But what happens after you address the low-hanging fruit?  Chatterjee offers his thoughts on how corporations should think about their business models when society starts to require reduction of carbon emissions.

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Stephanie Mehta
Stephanie Mehta
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Stephanie N. Mehta is an assistant managing editor at FORTUNE, overseeing technology coverage for Fortune. She also is a co-chair of the annual Brainstorm: Tech conference, an annual gathering of tech and media thinkers. Previously, Mehta spent seven years as a tech writer at FORTUNE covering the telecom and media industries. She also has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va.

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