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UWaterloo: ridesharing links could boost transit use in the suburbs; gaming the system

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Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighborhoods could be an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership, according to the findings of a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo. —Chris Bachmann.

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Greenius Shredding & Recycling Dream Come True!

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Your friendly neighborhood Greenius is a fastidious filer and I have every financial record and work related project file archived going back to 1979 – which amounted to storage box after storage box jammed full of papers in files filling my attic and garage. .

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Berkeley will have a higher percentage than Fresno—it will not be unlikely for 3-5 PEVs to show up on one neighborhood circuit in Berkeley, overwhelming the local circuit, and leading to blackouts, he said. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap.

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

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Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. Mitigating climate change is an easy way to understand the goals of cozy futurism, but I'm eager to see us all go further.

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Greenius Shredding & Recycling Dream Come True!

Creative Greenius

Your friendly neighborhood Greenius is a fastidious filer and I have every financial record and work related project file archived going back to 1979 – which amounted to storage box after storage box jammed full of papers in files filling my attic and garage. .

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Yen Meng Jiin/Singapore Press/AP Tan, the third of six brothers, was born and raised in a kampung (village) in the neighborhood of Geylang, Singapore.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We There is nothing special here!” Eronen says, laughing.

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