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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.

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

Look ma, no hands!

Does the ‘Future of Work’ Open a New Growth Horizon for Small Towns?

Remote work has been lifted up as a new opportunity for rural areas, but some old-fashioned obstacles remain. In small-town Missouri, creativity and collaboration are key for community leaders looking to overcome them.

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