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Given Las Virgenes Municipal Water District's dependence on State Water Project allocations from Northern California four hundred miles away, under General Manager Dave Pedersen's leadership, the agency is diversifying the water sources that it delivers to its 100,000 customers by building a $466 million facility that will take wastewater and purify for re-use as potable wate...

dcbel's products incorporate both hardware and software to provide smart control of household energy - integrating the homeowners' own resources such as solar systems and electric vehicles with their utility's grid. More and more, homeowners and utilities are seeing the value of integration so that power flows both ways saving money for both consumer and utility.

Alex Macheria is Vehicle Grid Integration Program Manager for PowerFlex, where he has been tackling the complex world of Vehicle to Grid Integration and its multiple benefits. PowerFlex is connecting fleets of electric vehicles, notably electric school buses, to the grid - unlocking savings for both fleet operators and their utilities. Utilities can call on connected electric...

Inna Korobkina discusses the positive impacts of fashion on oneself as well as its less positive impacts on the planet. Fully one-tenth of global CO2 emissions are related to textiles, more than all air transportation emissions and maritime emissions combined, so textiles are a big deal – for many reasons. Unfortunately, a whole lot of clothing ends up prematurely in landfill...