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  • Germany sets a new solar storage record

    July 18, 2016 |

    Energy Post |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    Solar power is an important renewable energy in Germany, but when the sun is out, it can overpower the grid. Likewise, when the sun is not out, the reception of solar power decreases. Germany has piloted battery installations that store solar energy for use when the sunlight is not plentiful and has successfully incentivized citizens to use them to lower costs.

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  • NASA and USAID pioneer the use of space technologies for development efforts

    July 01, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Panama

    SERVIR, a joint development initiative of the United States Agency for International Development and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, leverages data from space to improve environmental decision-making in 30 developing countries.

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  • Doctors Get Creative To Soothe Tech-Savvy Kids Before Surgery

    June 29, 2016 |

    NPR |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    Undergoing surgery is a stress-inducing prospect for anyone, but children are especially vulnerable to anxiety prior to operations. To avoid using risky anti-anxiety medications on young patients, two anesthesiologists at the Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have developed creative techniques to distract children from their forthcoming surgeries. They use toys and a unique low-cost video projection system called BERT-Bedside Entertainment Theater.

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  • NASA Responds to an S.O.S. of Historic Proportions

    April 26, 2016 |

    Smithsonian |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntsville, Alabama

    Technology used in outer space has huge potential to mitigate the effects that earthquakes have on buildings in America. Throughout testing and prototyping the project, the NASA team at the Marshall Space Flight Center has found ways that their technology can apply to commercial buildings or even historic monuments, such as the Washington Monument. The technology, disruptive tuned mass, has applications in space as well as in day-to-day life.

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  • Controversial Railway Splits Kenya's Parks, Threatens Wildlife

    April 18, 2016 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Tsavo

    As a new railway is built in Kenya, conservationists are using satellite collars to study elephant movement and how they interact with the transport system. There are some overpasses at various points throughout the track for the elephants to cross through, but little is known about how they are passing under the railway. While building overpasses can be costly, conservationists hope the data can convince the government to ensure that any future infrastructure will include this design to allow the animals to migrate.

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  • Can we Quake-Proof a City?

    March 22, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nepal

    Can we engineer buildings to prevent collapse in earthquakes? The answer is yes, and the Inquiry dives into how better building design can save more and more lives as urban density increases.

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  • How NASA accidentally found a way to make buildings safer during earthquakes

    February 22, 2016 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntsville, Alabama

    NASA developed a new stabilizing technology, known as the LOX Damper, in 2013 after working on a violently shaking rocket. Testing revealed that the technology could help design earthquake-proof buildings.

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  • First Report on Multifamily Solar with Storage Shows Positive ROI

    November 06, 2015 |

    Clean Energy Finance Forum |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As climate change and burgeoning development contribute to more frequent and bigger natural disasters, often senior, disabled, and low-income residents are stranded in their homes after a big storm without power to run elevators or regulate temperatures for medicines. Research is showing that multifamily, renewable energy storage systems provide a viable and reliable source of clean, emergency backup power for these populations in event of an emergency.

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  • A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

    September 23, 2015 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    At UC Berkeley, the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global Action are working together to formalize development engineering as a field of research - a new generation of engineers committed to making a social impact.

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  • Forging and Welding an Education

    September 10, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, a non-profit created an industrial arts education school offering youth an alternative classroom for learning where failure is welcomed and everything is hands on, such as welding and forging. The non-profit, which is known as The Crucible, was founded in 1999, and serves more than 8,000 students per year, all managed by close to 100 faculty members.

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