I was cleaning out my storeroom the other day and came across another recycled solar device that I was fooling with a few years ago. A one liter clear plastic bottle makes a good hot cap or cloche when you cut the bottom off it. Plant a … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project
Boston, MA, April 2, 2015--Helping to kick off Harvard’s first annual “Climate Week,” centenarian F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., and 97-year-old Del Markoff, Harvard Business School’s oldest living alumni, are calling on the school’s alumni, … [Read more...]
Energiewende: Germany’s Energy Transition
Tuesday, March 31 I saw Andreas Kraemer, International Institute for Advanced Sustainability in Pottsdam, founder of the Ecological Institute of Berlin, and currently associated with Duke University, speak at both Harvard and MIT. His … [Read more...]
Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA
For the past year, the Cambridge, MA city government has had a Getting to Net Zero Task Force studying the implications of a net zero energy building requirement. They finished the draft report on March 16, 2015 and will have an open forum … [Read more...]
Urban Agriculture
Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]
Meetings with Reps Capuano and Clark
Recently, I posted wondering why I haven't been hearing about Congressional and Senatorial public meetings and today I found two that are coming up. Good. District Policy Panel with Congresswoman Katherine Clark Tuesday, March 10 7:00 … [Read more...]
Cities Scale: Boston Living with Water
Cities scale is where real climate change adaptation is taking place, now, whether or not we have national or international agreements on greenhouse gases. Cities and regions have to deal with weather emergencies and, it turns out, … [Read more...]
Eradicating Child Homelessness in MA
Eradicating Child Homelessness in MA http://www.eventbrite.com/e/eradicating-child-homelessness-in-massachusetts-conference-tickets-15836606717 Monday, March 2 9 - 5 PM Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, … [Read more...]
The Last Public Meeting I Had with My Senator
That was Paul Tsongas. He regularly held public meetings around the Commonwealth with his constituents. I haven't heard of one since. Why is that? Hell, I haven't heard of any open public meetings my Congresscritter, Mr Capuano, … [Read more...]
Olympic Fever: Three Events This Week – UPDATED with cancellations
If the weather permits, Monday and Tuesday will see an avalanche of events centering on the possibility of a Boston Olympics with, respectively, London's Mayor Boris Johnson, a panel of eminent architects, and another panel of the … [Read more...]
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