Europe can do better than US-style air conditioning
"Heat not only saps productivity, it also disrupts work and home life and can be deadly to vulnerable people. But Europe should think before it adopts wholesale the “dripping box” system...Rather than millions of private systems competing for electricity and pumping out waste heat, a city can manage thermal energy as it does water or power: through a shared network."
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Memphis' pedestrian crisis continues
"Memphis has earned the distinction as the third deadliest city in the U.S. for pedestrians. That rating was granted by Smart City Growth after researchers compiled fatal and non-fatal data from 2016 until 2020."
A beloved zookeeper among people killed as Memphis' pedestrian crisis continues
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