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Rome allows people to pay their transit fares through digital credit earned by recycling plastic bottles
A great new initiative by the Roman authorities aims to tackle the plastic pollution menace through encouraging people to recycle their plastic bottles. The city now allows people to bring plastic bottles to a metro station, insert them in a machine that crushes and sorts them, and gain digital credits that go toward transit fares. Although it takes around 30 bottles to earn a standard €1.50 fare as the machine...
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This Indian architect just developed a beehive-inspired cooling system
As the planet continues to warm, the demand for cooling systems is on the rise across the globe. To beat the heat, people install air conditioners which have a massive impact on the environment. In the capital city Delhi, almost 50 per cent of the energy consumption can be attributed to cooling systems during peak summers. However, Delhi-based architect, Monish Siripurapu, and his architectural firm Ant Studio,...
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Despite a nasty fall, Jimmy Carter builds Habitat for Humanity homes in Tennessee
Former US President Jimmy Carter took a nasty fall at his home in Georgia on Sunday that left him with a black eye and about fourteen stitches above his brow. However, that did not deter him from attending the opening ceremony of a Habitat for Humanity event in Nashville, Tennessee, later that day. “I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses,” Carter told a crowd at a charity...
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