by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last July, GNN reported on the California city of Petaluma and its experiment collaborating with local restaurants to create a city-wide return-and-reuse beverage cup program. At the time, the plan was a 3-month trial: the results of which are in. It was a home run....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain. With the simplest and smallest scale test...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Without a government body to legislate the result, UK education authorities have discovered that over 90% of national schools have instituted smartphone bans, a measure still being debated by industry members and scientists. Representing a triumph of distributed...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A charity in the UK organized a team of volunteer builders to add an extension onto the house of a disabled man who’s been forced to sleep in his dining room for 3 years. 58-year-old Paul Kitterman hasn’t been able to walk since getting an abscess on his back...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Through a combination of invasive species control and stocking with captive-raised fish, it’s now believed that a self-sustaining and harvestable population of lake trout has returned to Lake Champlain. Following this historic success, a decision has been made to...
