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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

Cars That Think

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. On 12 September, CSTF and IRENA presented a Youth Day event.

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National Academy of Science hosting Sackler Colloquium on the science of science communication

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Anyone who has followed the public dialogue on such topics as evolution, stem cell research, or climate change knows how daunting effective science communication can be. Discussions over science are often freighted with cultural, political, and moral perspectives, making the task of communicating scientific ideas even more challenging.

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Greenius On The Green Scene - The South Bay Report

Creative Greenius

The green story of Dency Nelson is worth an entire blog onto itself, but he’s far too busy and actively involved to ever have time for that. When I talked with Lillian she said, “Sure,&# she’d do an interview with me and then asked if I was going to the climate change communications workshop at UCLA that Wednesday.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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By the way, I recommend a long blog post by Stephen Wolfram. Along with the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling —this is allowing silicon designers to get outside of the idea of just a faster PC. Climate change makes farming more difficult, more uncertain. It doesn’t have any connection to the world. I’ve read it.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

“I still have no idea what you’re talking about.” Jesus, it’s not about your stupid blog.” ” “Wait – you’re saying you actually read my blog?” You are,” a voice in the back firmly said. “Well maybe not you, personally… If you help us.” ” I pleaded.

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

What weve got to get people used to is the idea that electric cars will become quite normal, quite usual," said Hoon. David Mitchell: Ill tell you what really offends me - political opportunism More top stories Most talked about {for blog_item in blogs} ${parseInt(blog_item_index) + 1}. My Web del.icio.us winchester, hampshire.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. April 18, 2009 3:46 pm Link The Volt is a great idea and it looks magnificent, but they are out of their minds.!!!

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