Along with tethered car functions, the Amazon technology also allows integration with a smart house, which allows the driver to open the garage, turn off or turn on lights, and
prepare home climate control all through voice commands issued while behind the wheel.
Not exact matches
Scientific American spoke with Rosenzweig, head of the
climate impacts group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, while she
prepared her Tarrytown
home — threatened by trees listing in the wake of Sandy — for yet another northeaster storm.
HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and
prepare public housing,
home lending and other programs for the challenges of
climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.
Ryan has voted to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting greenhouse pollution, to eliminate White House
climate advisers, to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from
preparing for
climate disasters like the drought devastating his
home state, and to eliminate the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA - E).
Sea level rise is already impacting communities now; the latest example is Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, where America's first
climate change refugees are
preparing to leave their
home as the island is expected to disappear underwater in just a few years.
Timothy Reinhold, senior vice president for research at the Insurance Institute for Business &
Home Safety, a group funded by insurers, said local officials aren't doing enough to
prepare for the threats of
climate change.
«We believe more and more
home buyers are looking for
homes that have been retrofitted for energy savings and these new provincial financial incentives will help people
prepare their
homes for that market reality and make a contribution to the challenges of
climate change,» says Joe.