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Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Is the Place to Go for Inventive Pastries and Fresh Bread

Baua Electric

We’ll be able to sit down with people and play,” Ozemba says of the space’s potential to spur conversation and inspire new projects. Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood, has long been a destination for bakeries in New York City. Retail shouldn’t be so serious. Take off your shoes and have a glass of wine.”

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Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide

Baua Electric

The taxi dropped us in front of a long gate that opened to low, concrete buildings hung with Asafo flags, the colorful regimental flags belonging to the Fante people, a Ghanaian ethnic group. Her sculptures, composed of curtains of brightly colored beads and fabricated limbs, were eloquently arranged throughout the Brutalist building.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

Credit the EV’s advantage to its greater efficiency in the conversion of chemical energy to motion—77 percent, compared with 12 to 30 percent for a gasoline car—along with the potential to generate electricity using low-carbon sources. In our model, using electricity from the 2019 U.S. Between 2007 and 2011, the city of Seville built an.