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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

In Kenya, for example, mobile transactions last year were up by about 20 percent over 2020, according to Capacity. EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” Kenya was where mobile money became a success.”.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

In February 2008, GRF became one of the first forests—and the largest—to receive verification as a source of greenhouse gas reductions under the protocols of the Climate Action Reserve , adopted by the California Air Resources Board in 2007. Calculating stored carbon; “additionality”.

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