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Google Launches Open Spot, an App to Help You Find Open Parking

By ChiaradC

Google has launched Open Spot, a new app aimed at helping “driving users” to find and share parking spots. How does it work? It is very easy: users update a map when they are leaving their parking spots, thus enabling other drivers who are looking for a parking spot in the same area to quickly... »

The magazine “Espansione” fostering sustainable mobility – Milan, 30 June 2010

By LucaC

On the 30 June 2010 the magazine “Espansione” is shaking the city of Milan on mobility, energy and environment by launching the event “Una scossa alla città – Mobilità, energia e ambiente”. “Espansione”, the monthly magazine of the newspaper “Il Giornale” dedicated to the economy, has always been focusing on the issues of energy, waste... »

Taiyou: a solar-powered lift for the future?

By FedericoM

People enjoying winter holidays in the mountain generally come home with a beautiful tan, because of the stronger impact the sunbeams have on their skin due to the weakest filter exerted by the atmosphere. Today, a project from Fredrik Hilten – a Swedish industrial design student at Lund University – explores new ways of... »

Boosting sustainable postal deliveries: The Greenpost Project

By SaraM

Even if nowadays our mail travels for the most throughtout the web and writing paper has lost most of its fascination, there will always be room for communication by post. Hence, why don’t try alternative and less polluting solutions for hauling our hard copies? Greenpost is a project co-financed in the frame of the European... »