How can coastal communities mitigate and adapt to climate change while developing and prospering? https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/coastal-communities Challenge deadline July 1, 2018 Challenge Overview Over 30% of humanity lives near … [Read more...]
To End a Presidency
On May 22, 2018, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, authors of the book To End a Presidency, spoke at the Cambridge Public Library. My rough notes follow: Laurence Tribe: The abuse of Presidential power is the lynchpin of an impeachable … [Read more...]
The Global Plutocracy Story
With the news of Saudi and UAE meetings with the Trmp campaign, Jeet Heer, staff writer at the New Republic, points out that the “so called Russia story is a global plutocracy story” and I believe he is correct. In fact, the global … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – May 14, 2018
Design for World’s First Energy Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle https://snohetta.com/projects/366-svart https://inhabitat.com/snohetta-unveils-designs-for-worlds-first-energy-positive-hotel-in-the-arctic-circle/ Editorial Comment: … [Read more...]
The Best Speech by a Politician on the Future of the Grid I’ve Ever Read
Jeremy Corbyn really understands what the future of the grid needs to be in an age of anthropogenic climate change. A green energy system will look radically different to the one we have today. The past is a centralised system with a few … [Read more...]
Checking in with the World’s Winds
I like to see the maps of the Arctic Jet Stream every day or so (http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_norhem_00.gif). They look like dragons and other creatures chasing each other around the North Pole. Then I look at the Global Map of … [Read more...]
MIT Energy Hackathon: Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes
The content committee for the MIT Energy Hackathon, November 3-5, has accepted my challenge on "Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes.” With luck, an extremely knowledgeable and expert team of MIT and other … [Read more...]
Two New Reports on MA Homelessness
Family Experiences of Homelessness in Massachusetts & Evidence Based … [Read more...]
Crowd Funding an Emergency Solar Electric Grid for Puerto Rico and Other Islands
Solar lights and cell phone chargers are now $1or less production costs and selling around the world for $5 or less retail. Add bicycle generators and you have independent indigenous emergency power now, day or night. AA battery to car … [Read more...]
Civic Self Defense Resources
Always useful to start with A Guide to Crap Detection Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/163G79vq-mFWjIqMb9AzYGbr5Y8YMGcpbSzJRutO8tpw/ Then to look at what just happened. The Shorenstein Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School … [Read more...]
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