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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. VPUU works to transform low-income neighborhoods into safer, more sustainable communities.

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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

Baua Electric

Maukish & sweet with little flavor,” he noted in his journal from Santiago, the main island in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa. The deserted neighborhood ended at a cliff with a bike lane beneath a string of lampposts, which could have been grafted from Amsterdam. Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2023.

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

Some days we had wraps at Vida e caffe , an African chain; others, we went to the Purple Café in Osu, a hip neighborhood to the east of our hotel. Kumasi, Ghana’s second city On a Tuesday afternoon, Africa World Airlines flight 108 landed promptly at Kumasi’s small, immaculate airport. Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2024.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. We trap all your Coal Company’s Executives in one of your own underground coal mines, seal the entrance shut and turn it into a cable news special. That just ain’t right.

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Report: Chinese Export Rule Changes Could Impact EV Battery Production

The Truth About Cars

.& "The amount of graphite needed to feed those gigafactory beasts is in the neighborhood of a million tons per year, and the current capacity is zero in North America at commercial scale," John DeMaio, president of Graphex Group, a graphite processor with roots in Hong Kong, told Automotive News in the relevant report.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Local Weather Transportation/Traffic Education Environment Politics Real Estate Joel Connelly Webtowns/Neighborhoods Obituaries Special Reports Corrections US/World U.S. Dan Davids, president of Plug In America , drove his plug-in Toyota RAV4 to Tuesdays news conference and lauded Nissans announcement. Washington, D.C.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

The good news is that 2035 is the year suggested at the COP26 for all new car and vans in leading markets to be zero-emissions vehicles, and many manufacturers and governments have committed to it. Promoting mixed-use neighborhoods—areas that put work and residence in proximity—would allow more bicycling and walking.