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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Students from North Carolina State University , in Raleigh, along with two community volunteers, focused on providing the public with information such as the spatial and potential impacts of tidal flooding, through further research and a self-powered camera. and its environs.

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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

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I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon. photo by Galliani (c). Now is the moment.

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New maps give Europeans close-up picture of air pollution from diffuse sources

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New online maps published by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, in close cooperation with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre, allow citizens to pinpoint the main diffuse sources of air pollution, such as transport and aviation. Click to enlarge.

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Battelle introduces Grid Command Distribution services and software for rapid modeling of smart grid distribution circuits

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Screen shot of a Grid Command Distribution “heatmap” analysis for a neighborhood. Grid Command Distribution allows utilities quickly to build circuit models with multiple configurations; assess complex resource deployment scenarios; and. They were spending 4-5 days to build a circuit model. Source: Battelle and AEP (data).

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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

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The past two years, after all, required the State Office of the Environment to not only inspect and approve the factory itself, but also the entire industrial area with several large-scale facilities. Environment Minister Alex Vogel expressed his thanks to the state’s employees and other authorities for Giga Berlin’s quick approval process.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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With the support of a 2015 National Science Foundation grant, the Sounds Of New York City (SONYC) project was founded to build and deploy noise sensors, working in collaboration with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection , the city agency tasked with enforcing the noise code.

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

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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. Albeit slowly, entrepreneurs who helped build out the products and services over the tech boom of the past 20 years are now searching for technologies to address the crisis.

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