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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. . Look in one direction and you see one possible future with the native plantings and the lake with beautiful herons, egrets, ducks and other wildlife.

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Greenius Plants Tree to Help Restore Hope

Creative Greenius

But turn around and look the other way and it looks like something out of John Carpenter’s Escape from Los Angeles. . Lilly even brought her friend Charles to help. Look in one direction and you see one possible future with the native plantings and the lake with beautiful herons, egrets, ducks and other wildlife.

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Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

Creative Greenius

That’s why I was so happy to join the Los Angeles Greenpeace team and start working with them too. It’s rare for the average person to ever get a good up close and personal look at panels, especially so close to the ground. Tags: Environmental Politics climate change environment solar power 350.org

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

When I first met Elizabeth I had no idea that there were so many Tongan Americans living in large communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas and other cities across the USA. As my friends at the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme put it: Pacific islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

Although many of these gatherings have escaped the attention of historians, our view is that these events should be recognized more fully as moments where experts could glimpse possible futures and judge for themselves what was most likely to happen. But the ARPANET didn’t take off immediately.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. You could even call it Personal On-demand Driving.

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