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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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Climate change is a great example. Jason Jacobs , the founder of the fitness app Runkeeper , has created an entire media business called My Climate Journey to find and help recruit tech folks to address climate change. This article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “Cozy Futurism.". What's more, we are changing.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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Such studies were conducted in major urban centers, including New York City, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, and informed public policy on air pollution limits and climate action strategies. For example, students and working adults are more mobile than older people and are therefore more exposed, while children experience lifelong adversities.

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Tesla Tax Credit: How Californians Can Save $15,000 with EV Credits and Rebates

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In this article, we’re going to show you how California residents can save over $15,000 on Tesla Model 3 and Model Y by taking advantage of available EV tax credits, rebates, and incentives. How our EV Climate Loan works: Pre-qualify in minutes. Yet, despite record sales, they still seem out of reach for most Californians. Not anymore.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? We want to replace all of that if we are to have any hope of meeting our global climate goals,” Eronen says.

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Electrifying Chicago’s Urban Residential Neighborhoods: 3 New Community Chargers

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John’s Episcopal Church in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood. John’s listed its charger on EVmatch to make driving EVs easier for community members, many of whom rent or live in multi-family housing without a reliable place to charge, or other Chicagoans visiting the neighborhood in electric cars and needing a spot to charge up.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The sensor itself is not going to prevent a neighborhood from flooding," she said. A common adage is that if you can measure a thing, you can control a thing, or at least manage it.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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Palo Alto’s government has set a very aggressive Sustainability and Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below the 1990 level by the year 2030. In the next article in the series, we will look at the complexities of creating an EV charging infrastructure. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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