Articles by Heather Smith
Heather Smith (on Twitter, @strangerworks) is interested in the various ways that humans try to save the environment: past, present, and future.
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Other countries have good hitchhiking apps. Why doesn’t the United States?
Ride-sharing is catching on around the world, but still lagging in the U.S.
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It’s been a strange year for technology, startups, and clean energy businesses
How the internet of things will get hacked by the companies that are building it, and other tales of sustainable (and unsustainable) tech in 2015.
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This year, these maps made us see the world differently
Migrating coastlines, urban parking sprawl, and rivers running through it: These maps made our days in 2015.
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The wacky, messy tale of the man who just wanted to make a dog poop lamp
It took imagination, ingenuity, and months of meetings, but Matthew Mazzotta's poop-digester project finally turned dog waste into public lighting.
