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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas. It stops it.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Elaina Todd, an environmental planner who develops social marketing campaigns with the nonprofit conservation group Rare, is profiled in our most recent case study for Benetech’s Miradi software. Miradi, is used by nature conservation practitioners around the world to design, manage, monitor and learn from their projects.

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Federal court blocks Texas law banning ‘viewpoint discrimination’ on social media

The Verge

The order , issued by a federal district court in Austin on Wednesday night, granted an injunction proposed by NetChoice and the CCIA that puts the HB 20 law on hold until the conclusion of the case. “HB NetChoice and the CCIA previously sued over a similar Florida social media law.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

Today’s funder list focuses on nonprofits supporting the environment and conservation efforts. Funding Priority: The Environment and Conservation Efforts. The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation. Alaska Conservation Foundation. The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation. The Green Climate Fund.

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Science Technology and Society Forum in Kyoto

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The biggest idea I heard was that while mitigation is a global issue, climate adaptation will be a local issue. It seemed like a larger scale version of what we are already doing for the conservation movement with Miradi, and what we've been kicking around as the "Carbon P&L" concept for a possible new social enterprise.

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AT&T, Verizon CEOs reject FAA request to delay 5G expansions scheduled to start January 5th

The Verge

They propose to start using the C-band spectrum to expand their 5G services, but with a commitment to avoid deployment around certain airports for six months, saying a similar system is already in place in France. population to the FAA for an undetermined number of months or years. “At

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Congress releases blockbuster tech antitrust report

The Verge

The New York Times reported that Republicans split with the Democratic majority over proposed solutions to monopolistic behavior and that they were upset the report didn’t discuss claims that tech companies discriminate against conservative users. Buck’s report, titled “The Third Way,” comes to some of the same conclusions.

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