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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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First place in the best overall proof-of-concept category went to social enterprise startup Wakoma for the Nimble , an open-source, portable, wireless mesh network system that communities can build and deploy locally. Our team is accelerating this with localized open-source hardware and software and capacity building.” www.youtube.com.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Each stage in production matters—mining, refining, and producing the raw materials, manufacturing the components, and finally assembling them into cells and battery packs. The manufacture of lithium batteries for EVs, like those shown here, is energy intensive, as is the mining and refining of the raw materials. AFP/Getty Images.