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City Agriculture – November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, city planning, ecology, energy, environment, farming, food, gardening, green, sustainability

What To Do After the Climate Strike

September 26, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Fridays for the Future (https://www.fridaysforfuture.org) - the Friday Climate Strikes continue October 2 there will be a Global Solar Yatra (https://www.ggsy.in) with 1 million students in over 70 countries building their own solar lights … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: activism, climate-change, ecology, energy, environment, Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, Sunrise Movement, sustainability

Agrophotovoltaics, Agriphotovoltaics, Solar Sharing

September 17, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has been doing “agrophotovoltaics” studies for the last few years, the concept of producing both crops and solar power on the same land. Their 2018 study results are available here: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, ecology, energy, environment, farming, solar, sustainability

1 Million Solar Lights for 1 Millions Students to Commemorate Gandhi’s 150th Birthday

August 24, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

On October 2, 2019 the Global Solar Yatra plans on organizing 1 million students in 70 countries to build 1 million solar study lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth in 70 countries around the world. More … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-defense, climate-change, ecology, emergency preparedness, energy, environment, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for the Future, gandhi, Gandhian economics, nonviolence, renewables, solar

Zero Net Energy – July 23, 2019

July 23, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Zero-energy demonstration project in Beijing made from pre-fab timber … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, buildings, ecology, energy, environment, Green New Deal, planning, real-estate, sustainability

How Do You Pay for the Green New Deal: Cost of Fuel

July 4, 2019 By gmoke 5 Comments

I did some back of the envelope estimates of the cost of the fossil fuels we use in a year. The source of these figures is the USA DOE Energy Information Agency https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php But any mistakes in arithmetic are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climatechange, ecology, economics, energy, environment, Green New Deal, sustainability

Grid-scale Battery: The Tesla System in Australia

June 18, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Remember when Elon Musk offered to build a grid-scale battery for Southern Australia in "100 days or it’s free"? He made good on his bet, installing it on time for the cost of $66 million in December of 2017. According to a report on its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: Australia, batteries, climate-change, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, solar-energy, sustainability, Tesla, wind-energy

Daily Reminder Calendar for the Next Decade of Climate Change

June 2, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Scientists tell us that we have about a decade to do something to reduce climate calamity. Let's schedule out the next 10 years 3,650 days for climate action month by month week by week day by day to do what is ecologically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climatechange, countdown, ecology, energy, environment, green

Boston Globe Pro-Nuclear Op-Ed Has Massive, Obvious Lie in 2nd Sentence

May 29, 2019 By thegreenmiles 9 Comments

Pilgrim Nuclear Plant

While I fully support permanently shutting down rickety old Pilgrim nuclear this week, I'm agnostic on nuclear power in general. Sixty years into the nuclear era, it remains disaster-prone and we have no answers (never mind good ones) when … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: energy, Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station

Why isn’t job growth the first thing climate activists mention?

April 21, 2019 By gmoke 1 Comment

Please note that the Baker administration during its first term saw solar job losses of up to 3000 and that the last year has seen MA solar job growth down 11.4%. These job losses are almost certainly due to Governor Baker's refusal to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: ecology, economy, energy, environment, GreenNewDeal, jobs, sustainability

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“Natural gas has been portrayed as a bridge to the future.The data now show that it is only a tether to the past”say docs in New Eng Journal of Medicine. @MothersOutFront is working to move #beyondgas, for the sake of our children #cleanenergyhealthykids https://bit.ly/2YpRXAd

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nathanpbostonNathan Phillips@nathanpboston·
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"Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is for the compressor station to not go in. Please Santa, I hope I have been good enough. My Dad said I have been good enough, but I also want your opinion. ❤️ Please, Santa". https://twitter.com/concernedyogi/status/1202923626087010304

YogaGirl@concernedyogi

This is what I found on my 8 year old’s desk #Tosanta please don’t let the compressor station go in. I have been good.

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nathanpbostonNathan Phillips@nathanpboston·
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@Enbridge are the criminals. The blood is still fresh on their hands from the woman in Kentucky they killed on August 1, 2019.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2019/09/10/family-woman-killed-kentucky-gas-explosion-lincoln-county-sue-enbridge/2272668001/ https://twitter.com/bluemassgroup/status/1202674885023154176

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“Enbridge will support the prosecution of criminal activity, in the interest of safety and respect for those potentially impacted"

Safety. Respect. For their shareholders, not for the South Shore.

#mapoli https://twitter.com/MiriamWasser/status/1202663916536385536

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Capitalism Is the Gateway Drug #opioids #sackler #mapoli http://bluemassgroup.com/2019/12/capitalism-is-the-gateway-drug/

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RodgersKathrynKathryn@RodgersKathryn·
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New in @NEJMPerspec: The False Promise of Natural Gas. "Gas is associated with health and environmental hazards and reduced social welfare at every stage of its life cycle." Citizens advocating for #NoWeymouthCompress know this. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1913663?query=featured_home

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