{"id":3159,"date":"2026-03-17T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:32:49","slug":"10-ways-that-future-urban-living-will-be-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/?p=3159","title":{"rendered":"10 ways that future urban living will be greener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n                                    <span class=\"half-and-half__title h5\">6. People-powered lighting <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Laurence Kemball-Cook founded Pavegen with a simple but ambitious aim: to create affordable off-grid electricity in cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was looking at new forms of street lighting powered by solar and wind,\u201d he says. \u201cBut in dense urban environments neither of those technologies work well. Wind needs to be in the sea or high up, and solar struggles when you\u2019re surrounded by tall buildings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cities, though, have something else in abundance: moving people. As an industrial designer with a fascination with sustainability, he spent five years building prototypes in his bedroom of a system that would harness the kinetic energy of footfall and turn into power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As with all good inventors, people told him he was crazy , but his breakthrough moment came when he realised a flywheel technology would work. \u201cOne step can spin the flywheel for up to 10 seconds, which is good for batteries because it gives continuous power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Multiply that by thousands of footsteps, and the output becomes something significant. After a trial at the London 2012 Olympics, where a temporary walkway was fitted with its tiles to power lighting, Pavegen now has installations in 250 sites in 5 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/environment\/the-british-company-taking-many-steps-to-produce-power\/\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Image: Pavegen<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6. People-powered lighting Laurence Kemball-Cook founded Pavegen with a simple but ambitious aim: to create affordable off-grid electricity in cities. \u201cI was looking at new forms of street lighting powered by solar and wind,\u201d he says. \u201cBut in dense urban environments neither of those technologies work well. Wind needs to be in the sea or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[455,87,456],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adaptation-lifestyle","tag-future","tag-technology","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatevdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}