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Methane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring

March 10, 2014 By gmoke

HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring project in Cambridge and Somerville. Boston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, bu, cambridge, climate-change, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, greenhouse-gases, heat, heet, massachusetts, methane, Nathan Phillips, natural-gas, somerville

BU Wins the Frozen Four!

April 11, 2009 By stomv

Yeah yeah, it ain't politics.  Down two with a minute left and their goalie pulled, BU managed to score twice to force overtime.  Colby Cohen scored the game winner in OT, and BU has won their fifth national championship. … [Read more...]

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Duct Tape for Peace

June 23, 2008 By lasthorseman

Hey all you Southie residents all you need is duct tape! http://www.boston.com/news/loc... It's the very same stuff you can use to protect your family from evil Al-Qaeda terrorists. http://www.ajc.com/metro/conte... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bsl4, bu

BU scary-virus lab facing lengthy review process

May 3, 2008 By David

In November, when we last checked in on Boston University's peculiar plan to place a laboratory to study the world's most dangerous pathogens in Boston's highly-congested South End, an independent panel of the National Research Council had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biolab, bu, ma

Federal review of BU’s scary-virus biolab was hopelessly inadequate

November 30, 2007 By David

I've long thought that locating a research facility designed to study the world's most dangerous pathogens (Ebola, anthrax, dengue fever, etc.) in the densely-populated South End was a lousy idea.  I always thought it smacked of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biolab, bu, ma

BU’s scary-virus biolab suffers a setback

August 6, 2006 By David

Waaaaay back when this blog was only about a month old, I wrote up a couple of posts based on stories about Boston University's plans to build a "Biosafety Level 4" research facility - in which the most dangerous pathogens such as Ebola, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biolab, bu, massachusetts

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