Green Product Placement Is Making Sustainability Cool & Normal
Green marketing faces the challenge of creating and marketing innovative green products and services while persuading consumers. Green product placement is helping.
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Bell Reveals Its 5-Seat Nexus Air Taxi At CES Las Vegas
The air taxi space is crowded — if not on paper, then with prototypes and flying demos. Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, is a global helicopter leader and no stranger to the vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) world. It announced the Bell Nexus, a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft a few years ago at CES. This year, we caught up with the team at CES in Las Vegas to find out what it looks like and what it means for our future mobility needs by 2023.
Sea Cables Or Low Orbit Satellites — The Race For Internet Supremacy Has Begun
The news about SpaceX getting the go-ahead by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its next phase in deploying the low orbit Starlink satellite internet made me wonder how that many satellites would actually work together to provide the very high throughput and low latency network that Elon Musk has in mind.
SpaceX Given Go-Ahead For Broadband Satellite Services Plan
SpaceX has now been given formal approval by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to develop its previously revealed global broadband satellite network, the government agency has revealed.
Two SpaceX Internet Satellites Will Piggyback Their Way Into Orbit This Week
Two experimental satellites will ride into space this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. They are “proof of concept” satellites that could lead to a global high speed broadband network in coming years.
Tech Industry To Support Net Neutrality In Legal Slugfest
The FCC has dumped net neutrality in the trash. What does that mean for civil discourse about such things as climate change and carbon emissions policies? More than you may realize.
2017 Electric Mobility Highlights
2017 was a strange year, with plenty to celebrate and plenty to ponder about. The wild ups and downs most of us have gone through, both personally and professionally, were reflected in the industries we cover as well. So let’s take a look at what surprised us, what shows the most potential, and what was simply strange.
IEEE Completes 62-Mile, ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Wireless Broadband Standard
The IEEE has completed its 802.22 ‘TV White Spaces’ standard for wireless broadband networking. With a 100 km (62 mile) range, the so-called ‘Super Wi-Fi’ standard is expected to spur broadband adoption in rural areas, improve ‘last-mile’ network connectivity and alleviate broadband network congestion without interfering with VHF and UHF TV transmissions.
Wind & Solar Projects on Landfill & Brownfield Sites?
“Mixed use” development is an exciting term in city planning. Mention it to a planner and chances are their eyes will widen, they will stand up straighter, and they will start talking with you in an excited tone about all the benefits of mixing land uses. When it gets down … [continued]
