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Wakeup! The Sea Level is Rising & Another Island Nation’s People Are About To Become Climate Change Refugees

Creative Greenius

Here is why I spend all of my time working on climate change issues and why we are gathering on the beach here in Southern California on October 24 in Manhattan Beach for 350.org org International Day of Climate Action to demonstrate what sea level rise will do to us here on the West Coast. We know better.

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

Cars That Think

Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? Much of the motivation behind building new rockets or developing colonies on Mars is wrapped up in the rhetoric of our warming planet being something to escape from. But we can change our attitudes. What's more, we are changing.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

Cars That Think

The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Confronting climate change and cybersecurity threats The other four winning comics cover artificial intelligence, climate change, and cybersecurity.

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Ford issues 2015 trends report; the emergent role of Generation Z

Green Car Congress

Despite issues such as climate change, privacy threats, epidemic disease and geopolitical strife, the Ford report detects optimism. Expanding Next of Kin: As traditional families and communities become less the norm, the concept of family is adapting, expanding and evolving in a most personal fashion.

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Who will be in the driver’s seat?

Electric Auto Association

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. They need to know they won’t have to do a smog check or an oil change, or replace a timing belt.” “And

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

Because my father’s mother was a Romanian Jew, an illegal immigrant, who fled to America to escape World War II, all Jews and all refugees on the run are my family. Because my father’s father was an illiterate Italian illegal immigrant who drove a truck in New York City his entire career, all undocumented workers are my family.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

But surprisingly, a subject Elizabeth didn’t know a lot about is Tonga’s frontline role as a victim of the climate change crisis. Today all 3000 inhabitants of the Carteret Islands have been relocated as they become the first climate change refugees. They were “placed.&#. Mine too of course.

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