Rural Broadband Access Good For Climate Fight
Giving people in rural areas access to broadband Internet allows for more telecommuting and as such saves on carbon emissions.
Giving people in rural areas access to broadband Internet allows for more telecommuting and as such saves on carbon emissions.
The Trump administration has removed several sections of the EPA website that featured information and data on climate change and global warming…
In his office at WebWorld in Seattle, Roger Adams is working on the United Nations Environment Programme’s on-line action guide for community organizations. He e-mails drafts to the working groups, and is told that the guide needs more material on sustainable agriculture. Adams writes a quick query on his Macintosh and "uplinks" it into a "listserve," which automatically sends it on to 2,000 environmentalists around the world. He goes back to working on his document, with the e-mail program working in the background. Within an hour, a listserve subscriber in South Africa has sent him the material he needs. Adams copies the material into his document, attributes it, and completes a new draft, which he immediately e-mails back to the working group.