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...Ford Motor Company’s top environmental official spoke yesterday on “Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering” as the final guest in this year’s Future of Energy Series.While hosting an automobile industry official like Susan M. Cischke in a series dedicated to “finding a secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We?...
...issued photo ID means that citizens are required to spend money on an ID which might be useless to them in all other contexts. Although the Supreme Court disagrees, this action is blatantly discriminatory toward those people who do not need driver’s licenses. Although the Indiana motor vehicle agency will grant a free, non-driver’s license state ID to people who do not drive, it requires an unexpired, “primary document” like an original birth certificate or a passport. This restriction unfairly affects certain demographics...
...project is the brainchild of Tokai University Professor Yoshimasa Hayashi, a former top automotive engineer with Nissan Motor and author of the Japanese book To Make the World's Best Race Car. In 2001, Hayashi decided to spice up the school's drab curricula with a little real-world engineering project: a competitive endurance racer, designed and built by his students. "Studying a race car is a great way to learn a variety of advanced technologies," says Hayashi. "And, of course, it's appealing to young students...
...city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...government has ordered work stoppages at construction sites, chemical plants, cement manufacturers and mines by July 20. Beijing Eastern Petrochemical will suspend production until September. The city will also ban spray painting and crack down on printing, furniture production and motor vehicle repair outlets that don't meet city standards...