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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

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The up-cycling projects essentially come in two parts: Safe Passage Bags This workshop started back in 2015 and is now one of the prime integration projects at Lesvos Solidarity. It’s all about respecting the environment whilst using natural resources and re-using materials. Written by Charlotte Dautzenberg

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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“People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. Then you are part of a community.”

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Green Friday | Black Friday

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We would like to do our part in encouraging people to consider supporting local in the lead up to Christmas and beyond. The part a florist plays at times of grief & joy. In 2018, S T O W E A W A Y A R T was founded by traveling creative enthusiast and our very own internal Creative Designer Charlotte Stowe.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The 43 winning proposals were submitted by transit agencies from across the country as part of a nationwide competition for the $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds. City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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

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The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enable Reliable Non-Destructive Characterization of Additively Manufactured Parts using X-ray CT, $756,689. AltaRock Energy, Inc.