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USDA’s Rural Partners Network Targets Communities with Greatest Infrastructure Needs

The program is designed to help underserved communities in identifying and applying for grants designated for rural areas.

Professor Steve Running hopes for progress, not panic, 15-years after landmark climate report

“I looked up 20 years ago, I started giving climate talks around Missoula and in in fair measure, the message hasn’t changed.”

California Sets Standards for 100% EV Sales

In just over a decade, California will only sell electric vehicles

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.

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.

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