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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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To create a sustainable environment, we need to contain air pollution. The microbes and minerals in soil systems regulate water, cycle nutrients, filter pollutants, physically support plants, and sequester greenhouse gasses. IoT food container tags can reduce food and water waste. Deforestation is contributing to climate change.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn.

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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. Whereas Denver, having the highest per capita emissions for electricity, heating/industrial fuels, and ground transportation is, not surprisingly, the top emitter.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. It teaches leadership and other soft skills.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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The pump drives the closed loop aquaponics system that takes nutrients from fish in a large water tank and delivers them to growing plants in the greenhouse which then filters the water and sends it back to the tank. Aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants in water) becomes aquaponics when combined.

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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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Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000. Solar Thermal System: A solar thermal system on the building roof will provide hot water for the operations building and the maintenance building. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $325,000. Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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Study finds vehicles more important source of urban atmospheric ammonia than farms

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The researchers outfitted vehicles with sensors to detect ammonia levels and focused on six cities: Philadelphia, Denver and Houston in the United States, and Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Baoding in China. —Sun et al. The laser-based sensors were smaller, easier to work with and more accurate than previously used sensors, Zondlo said.

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