Creating Greener Communities in the U.S.

Panasonic’s Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town Project outside of Tokyo gives a glimpse of what is possible for the smart communities and homes of the future. Source: Panasonic

U.S. – Japanese cooperation and technological exchanges are helping to create greener communities in the U.S. While corporations from both countries are actively developing commercially marketable green technologies, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is also partnering with U.S. states and national laboratories to conduct cutting-edge projects in the U.S. In the graphic below, we showcase what the smart communities of the future can look like—using innovative technology from private corporations as well as public entities such as NEDO.