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Happy Earth Day Solar Roadies! Idaho-based Solar Roadways Updates

As most of you know, we invented Solar Roadways with the goal of helping the environment. We’d been hearing about the Climate Crisis, pollution, dangers to our planet and all of its inhabitants. We loved the idea of solar energy but realized that it was not being utilized to a degree that would be sufficient to be a significant help in solving these problems.

NBC Nightly News – Are these roads the future of electric vehicle charging?

Tech company tests roads for wireless charging

What Can Be Done About the Global Housing Crisis? Plenty

The lack of homes in major cities is endemic, but solutions exist—providing countries can muster the political capital.

‘Corporate Landlords and Market Power’: Study Surveys the Single-Family Rental Boom

New research documents the growing footprint of large institutional investors in the housing market during the pandemic, converting more and more of the nation’s single-family detached housing units into rental properties.

Lake County joins Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority as federal study kicks off

The authority’s momentum is well-timed with millions of dollars in federal funding earmarked for increasing long-distance passenger rail, such as the old North Coast Hiawatha that once crossed Montana’s southern tier.

Montana-based Eventgroove becomes the first event platform to offer carbon removal with Stripe Climate. Eventgroove is powered by 100% clean wind energy. 

Carbon removal combined with Eventgroove’s carbon-neutral shipping and 100% wind energy becomes another pillar of Eventgroove’s long-standing commitment to helping event organizers run climate-friendly events. 

Funding opportunity for tribal communities to address climate change

The Department of Interior announced this month that it will invest $46 million in funding for tribal communities as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program.

America’s Demographic Winter

Population growth is slowing or reversing just about everywhere in the country. That has enormous implications for our future economy and prosperity.

Study: Affordable Housing Development Raises Nearby Property Values

More evidence that a common talking point of affordable housing opposition is more fear than fact.

Tesla says robotaxi is coming in 2024, and it won’t have a steering wheel

Look ma, no hands!

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