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

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What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color.

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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading

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A discussion paper published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) asserts “ with a high degree of reliability that it is misleading to claim that people’s exposure to diesel engines of road motor vehicles is the cause of increased risk of lung cancer. ”. —“Diesel Engines Exhausts: Myths and Realities”.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore. And few talented engineers wanted to work for a company that seemed to offer little guarantee of long-term employment. Tan did give Toshiba its music player.

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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. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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Is it the Right Time to Buy an Electric Car?

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We have been telling you the benefits and advantages of electric vehicles and the positive impact they are going to make on our economy and environment. An electric car does not have a complex gear mechanism or fuel injector mechanism as in an IC engine-powered car. points in the direction that we are in the ‘Era Of Electric Vehicles.’

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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Using a framework originally developed by researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Georgia Tech team estimated VMT (vehicle miles travelled) in response to three census variables: median household income, vehicle ownership, and employment rate, plus the neighborhood type classification. Brian Stone Jr.,

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. But Bradley thought the article was fine in telling the basic details of his story. and they said, “Hey, we’re ready to see you.”

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