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Vanderbilt meeting concludes time to begin developing climate change adaptation strategies for transportation sector

Green Car Congress

The meeting was held in June at Vanderbilt University and was sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment (VIEE) and the University of Memphis’ Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

Cars That Think

The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed. On the evening of Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down in the city of Joplin, Missouri. We simply didn't design for tornadoes before," said Lombardo.

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How NIST Learns from Horrific Disaster

Cars That Think

The maps need to be refreshed regularly as science, technology, and the climate change. Nine months in to Lombardo's job, however, everything changed. On the evening of Sunday, 22 May 2011, a multiple-vortex tornado touched down in the city of Joplin, Missouri. We simply didn't design for tornadoes before," said Lombardo.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

When I spoke out against the home-porting of the battleship Missouri with its nuclear tomahawk cruise missile arsenal, the folks at the Alliance for Survival called and asked me, “Do you just talk about stuff or do you DO anything too?” So I wrote some more screenplays and began developing TV sitcoms that nobody wanted to produce either.