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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

Cars That Think

universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Delaine Access to fresh produce is challenging in many low-income neighborhoods. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S. Gillespie is the current EPICS in IEEE chair.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

Ladies and gentlemen your friendly neighborhood Greenius has hit the wall. After she got a job at Mattel in 1985 she got me a shot at a temp job as an $8 an hour “board turner” in the Samples Department at the original Mattel building in Hawthorne. I am dog tired. I need a break, right now, before I snap. A year-long one.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., UTRC will team with Columbia University, CM-Tech, Hamilton Sundstrand and Worley Parsons in this program. Water (1 project).

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.