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Ford launches 10-year project to transform Dearborn campus; sustainability in the built environment; Living Building Challenge

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million square feet of work space will be rebuilt and upgraded into even more technology-enabled and connected facilities. Ford’s zero-waste, net zero-energy, net zero-water Sustainability Showcase facility will produce more energy than it consumes, and will use geothermal heating and cooling and photovoltaic power generation.

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Lillian Light Is No Lightweight - The Environmental Lioness of the South Bay is Fired Up, Ready To Go!

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The more time I spend with Lillian Light the more I admire, respect and flat out like her. I want to be as vital and meaningful as Lillian Light is when I grow up. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# I agree, but I can see where you could get in political hot water with that.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. kilowatt-hours.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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James Weldon Johnson ’s hymn “ Lift Every Voice and Sing , ” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under conditions they weren’t meant to survive.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. Laser altimetry’s problems would seem to have no connection to aircraft-based IPR surveys.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. system does not just deactivate the engine when the car is stationary at a red light; it already deactivates the engine at speeds below 7 km/h (4.4

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BOEM approves first BP deepwater Gulf exploration plan to meet new standards following Deepwater Horion disaster

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In July 2011, BP announced additional safety enhancements and performance standards they would voluntarily implement in connection with its deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. BOEM has verified that BP has met the relevant voluntary performance standards.

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