For UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, no time of year is more challenging than the holiday season. This year, the Atlanta-based company predicts the surge of packages it handles between Thanksgiving and Christmas will exceed half a billion.…
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Recyclebank’s iPhone app aims to ease London traffic congestion | GreenBiz
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In an era of rising congestion and shrinking budgets, big cities face a major challenge making the most out of aging transportation networks. Some, such as London and Singapore, have opted to use a stick: congestion fees to nudge commuters…
Can Lit Motors’ self-balancing electric motorcycle succeed where Segway couldn’t? | GreenBiz
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What rolls on only two wheels, but can’t be toppled? No, it’s not a Segway. But it does look a little like a Tron-inspired light cycle. The answer is Lit Motors’ C-1 virtually uncrashable electric motorcycle. At GreenBiz’s VERGE DC…
A chat with Daniel Kim of Lit Motors: Marrying motorcycles with gyroscopes | GreenBiz
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Meet the Change Makers: How Verizon is dialing in efficiency | OnEarth
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Greening fleets, mining copper cables and tweaking data centers at Verizon Verizon can trace its technological roots back to the 1880s, when Alexander Graham Bell’s invention first relayed voices between Manhattan and Boston. Now, as then, the New York-based company…