Bike sharing is booming in New York. 600 stations and 10 bikes.
In New York City, bike lanes cover 700 miles, and bike-sharing services operate at 330 locations.
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Low-cost coffee: more and more cafes are selling a cup for 50 cents.
Even coffee is becoming low-cost: from North to South of the country, the number of cafés where you can drink a good coffee for just 50 cents is increasing every day.
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Unused baby products? In Foggia, you can donate them through the Baby Bank.
Has your child grown up and you have a lot of products at home that you no longer need? You can donate them to families in need.
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Climate, the ice challenge of EuroCold laboratories
Kilometers of cores, extracted in Greenland, Antarctica and the Alps, to study the world's climate, preserved in cold rooms that reach temperatures of up to -50°C.
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On International Day Against Homophobia, a study warns: "Companies benefit from openness to diversity."
According to a study on workplace environments by the University of Arizona, "Building on diversity promotes job satisfaction for both homosexual and heterosexual workers."
Last-minute purchases: save up to 50%
Coop Consumatori Nordest is offering members and customers a new option: last-minute purchases of products with short shelf lives, with savings of up to 50%. SAVE AND FIGHT WASTE. The idea was born as a way to fight against waste.
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Energy savings: LED street lights in Cagliari save €600.
The new technology covers 40 percent of the municipal area. Old sodium and mercury vapor lamps have been eliminated.
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Schools in disarray: Milan's families are taking care of it.
With the free contribution of one of the children's parents, they all contributed to the renovation and whitewashing of the classroom walls.
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How to save energy in the kitchen
Between the refrigerator, freezer, oven, and stove, our kitchens are a source of waste. Read all the tips for saving on your bill while cooking.
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Film Festival: Reduced admission prices throughout Italy from May 9th to 16th
Go to the cinema for just 3 euros. Practically a dream for lovers of big-screen films, given the prices of admission tickets in recent years. From 9 to 16 May 2013 in
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Cheap groceries? Never when you're hungry.
Avoid shopping on an empty stomach, because hunger leads to over-consumption and unhealthy products. A Cornell University study confirms this.
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An app to "donate" calories and avoid wasting food
“Give your calories” is an app that allows you to take a photo and calculate the calories in your food, converting them into money to donate to charity.
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Tumble dryers get a new energy label.
Anyone planning to buy a dryer should know that from September this appliance will have a new energy label: easier symbols for the user and a new scale of values, from A+++ to D
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Truck sharing: share a shipment and save money
After cars, bicycles, and taxis, now trucks too. Truck sharing has emerged, that is, sharing a truck for a transport on a journey that would otherwise have been wasted.
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Adults on bicycles
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I think that there is still hope for the human race.”
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Malala, a girl fighting for the right to education, is among the 100 most influential people in the world.
She is just 15 years old and has been included by Time among the 100 most influential people in the world, chosen every year as per tradition by the American magazine. Along with her in that list are, among others,
Healthcare: The digital revolution is worth $15 billion a year.
In Italy, little is spent on healthcare and even less is invested, to the detriment of the quality of the services of the Health System which, in recent years – those of the cuts for the Spending Review –
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Plane takes off without fuel, powered only by the sun (VIDEO)
It's called "Solar Impulse" and it's the first plane in the world designed to fly with this type of fuel. Day and night.
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Crisis-Relief Supermarkets: Shop for Free, Work
Solidarity supermarkets are emerging, where a poor family can shop without paying a cent, but at most by donating a few hours of work. The first experiments are underway in Modena and Trieste.
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