Louisville rerouted stormwater to idle pipes, saving $200M
Louisville MSD and Tetra Tech used real-time control to reroute stormwater to idle pipe capacity, saving $200M in construction.
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3,236 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEUCRT secured Maasai land with communal titles
Edward Loure's UCRT secured Maasai land with communal CCRO titles, avoiding fragmentation.
Ler o casoDanish dairies pooled into one brand to defend their reputation
Danish dairy cooperatives pooled into one legally registered, quality-policed export brand to fight counterfeiters.
Ler o casoVodafone and Safaricom built M-Pesa from users' airtime workaround
Vodafone and Safaricom, seeing pilot users turn airtime into currency, rebuilt their microloan tool into M-Pesa, a direct cash transfer system.
Ler o casoMacCready won flight prize with a crashable plane
Paul MacCready won the human-powered flight prize by building a flimsy plane that was cheap to crash and fast to rebuild, enabling hundreds of test flights.
Ler o casoMaghribi traders deterred cheating agents with collective boycott
Maghribi traders deterred cheating agents by collectively boycotting anyone accused, making silence complicity.
Ler o casoMalian cotton farmers cut insurance false negatives using buyer's data
Malian cotton farmers got a village-level insurance trigger using yield data the cotton buyer already recorded, cutting false negatives from 45% to 7%.
Ler o casoGenoa paid its war debt by handing creditors the island they conquered
In 1346, cash-poor Genoa paid its fleet's financiers by granting them rights to govern and tax Chios, which they ran profitably for two centuries.
Ler o casoMaxwell House became the Haggadah at Passover
Maxwell House gave away a free Haggadah with every can of coffee, embedding the brand in the Passover Seder ritual.
Ler o casoMaxwell and Thomson defined the ohm as a repeatable experiment
Maxwell and Thomson defined the ohm as a repeatable spinning-coil experiment, so any lab could derive it without a master artifact.
Ler o casoMcDonald's stopped collecting royalties and started owning the land
McDonald's, cash-poor from thin royalties, had Sonneborn buy land under each franchise and sublease it back at a markup, gaining steady rent and eviction power.
Ler o casoMCI turned a two-city private line permit into long-distance by adding a dial tone
MCI turned a two-city private line permit into a long-distance service by adding a dial tone, forcing courts to rule on the text.
Ler o casoMedieval English landowners use courts to transfer risk
A Crusader can't legally protect land he leaves behind, so English courts invent a second kind of ownership to fix it
Ler o casoMergenthaler cast fresh type to skip distribution
Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype cast fresh type lines from reusable matrices, eliminating manual distribution and outpacing composition-only machines.
Ler o casoResearchers boosted flu shots by asking employees to write down a time
Researchers added a line asking employees to write when they'd get a flu shot, lifting vaccination rates by 4 points.
Ler o casoCongress made contractors buy payment bonds for subcontractors
Congress replaced the flawed Heard Act with the Miller Act, requiring contractors to post payment bonds so subs could claim against a surety.
Ler o casoMoench built tufting machine from scratch, not modified sewing machine
Ernest Moench built a tufting machine from scratch, avoiding sewing machine limits, and his 1928 patent was cited for decades.
Ler o casoMuscovy Company turned a failed expedition into a Russia trade monopoly
When the Muscovy Company's Arctic search failed, it redirected pooled capital to the Russia trade it found, becoming a permanent joint-stock firm.
Ler o casomyAgro sold farm seed the way vendors sold phone credit
myAgro sold seed via scratch cards, letting farmers save small amounts through vendors they already trusted.
Ler o casoPolitical speech was banned, so he stopped a $3.6 billion dam using photography galleries
Censorship policed a category — dissent. Art exhibits sat just outside it, and could still carry the exact thing dissent would have said: the cost of the dam.
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