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Portable sensors enable monitoring of pollution on smart phones; inferring pollution maps with greater granularity

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These results suggest that the cumulative impact of many individuals using personal sensing devices may have an important role to play in the future of environmental measurement for public health. Computer scientists presented findings from these field tests at the Wireless Health 2012 conference in San Diego earlier this year.

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Bill Ford: Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution; emphasis on green and smart technologies

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In an address at the 2012 Mackinac Policy Conference, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford said that “ Michigan must become the Silicon Valley of the mobility revolution ” and outlined key public policy areas to help improve the state’s competitiveness and ensure that the state realizes the full benefit of that impending revolution.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

Cars That Think

John Shegerian People might say, how is that possible given that we’re talking more about environment and there are more companies like yours? Really in 2012 I started speaking to companies about the need to “shred” data the way they shred sensitive papers, they looked at us like we were green Martians. We have so, so, so many devices.

Waste 144
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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

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Power 2012). The necessity for a successful carmaker to please the next-generation consumers was the main topic for CEO Stefan Jacoby’s presentation at the 2012 Automotive News Europe Conference in Monaco. Road platooning, as exemplified by the European SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) project.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

Cars That Think

The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” Estrin’s father died in 2012, and her mother died in 2014. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. Besides all the damage to Hermosa’s health, environment, safety and quality of life the drilling for oil in their 1.4

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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