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Centennial is designed to be a master-planned, environmentally friendly town that addresses the pressing issue of climate change.

Green California town planned to combat global warming

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A planned community in California aims to set a benchmark for sustainable living in the face of global warming.

Centennial, located in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, is designed to be a master-planned, environmentally friendly town that addresses the pressing issue of climate change by integrating green technologies and sustainable urban planning from the ground up.

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Centennial is a massive master-planned community set to occupy approximately 12,000 acres and designed to accommodate 19,333 homes (18 percent earmarked as affordable), along with commercial spaces, schools, and parks.

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Source: Newsweek

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The new technology could revolutionize desalination by offering a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative to traditional methods.

Solar device makes 20L drinking water a day from seawater with 93% efficiency

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an energy-efficient desalination device that uses the sun’s power to produce clean drinking water from seawater.

This innovative approach could provide a sustainable solution to the global water crisis, especially for coastal and island nations where fresh water is scarce.

The new technology, which mimics nature’s water cycle, could revolutionize desalination by offering a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative to traditional methods.

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Source: Interesting Engineering

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UC Students design & build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity that doesn’t need to be connected to the grid.

Students design & build affordable, energy-efficient home

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A group of UC Riverside mechanical engineering undergrads started a year and a half ago with just a grant application and an idea.

None of them had architectural or building construction experience. Yet they managed to obtain funding and design and build from the ground up a showcase house that will use solar electricity so wisely it doesn’t need to be connected to the grid.

Fresh off exhibiting a section of the house at a home design show in Orange County, the students were invited in November to design and display a second home at an international design competition in St. Louis in 2025 called the Gateway Decathlon. The invite comes with a $100,000 grant, though the students expect to raise additional funds to complete the project.

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Source: UC Riverside

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One couple’s starter home in a connected community in California shows how smart energy powered by smart home technology could be the future of affordable, energy-independent living.

How microgrids and smart homes are shaping our energy-independent future

Justine Yotti-Conrique and Michael Conrique just bought their first home together. The pretty, Spanish-style four-bedroom house in the planned community of Shadow Mountain is ideal for the young couple and their border doodle, Ziggy. Shadow Mountain is just one of many similar-looking communities popping up all over this fast-growing slice of Southern California desert, where young professionals like the Conriques are flocking thanks to remote work options and high prices along the coast.

But behind the home’s stucco walls and under its terracotta tiled roof lies a new breed of smart, energy-efficient home. One that’s part of California’s first planned smart, solar-powered residential microgrid community.

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Source: The Verge

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