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JALSA Leadership Transition Indicates Next Chapter in Jewish Social Justice Advocacy

July 10, 2017 By JALSA Leave a Comment

BOSTON, July 10, 2017- Sheila Decter, Founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action (JALSA), and a tireless advocate for social and economic justice, civil rights and constitutional liberties in a career … [Read more...]

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Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA

March 26, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, cambridge, construction, district heating, ecology, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, environment, housing, ma, municipal government, net zero emissions, net zero energy, renewable, solar

Why Partners Healthcare’s Market Power (and Proposed Expansion) is bad for MA

November 23, 2014 By LennyGrover 6 Comments

It is time for Massachusetts to lead the nation, once again, on healthcare.  An “historic” opportunity to address provider pricing power, in a period of market consolidation, should not be overlooked.  The governor-elect and attorney … [Read more...]

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Here is the 2nd Reason why the Disclosure Bill Rocks. (You know the first).

July 30, 2014 By Avi Green 8 Comments

As all you readers of Blue Mass Group know, anonymous big money in politics is a major problem.  Luckily, today or tomorrow, if all goes well, the Legislature will finalize a bill to clamp down on anonymous SuperPac spending.  That's good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election, ma, massachusetts

Natural Gas Leaks: Methane Management

June 13, 2014 By gmoke 5 Comments

This summer, the Squeaky Leak Project (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/squeaky-leak--2#home) will drive down every street in Cambridge and Somerville, MA with a high-precision methane analyzer and map all the natural gas leaks in these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, greenhouse-gas, heet, ma, methane, natural-gas, somerville

Let’s end child poverty

March 24, 2014 By donberwick 36 Comments

We are a wealthy state in a wealthy nation, and yet one out of every seven people in Massachusetts lives in poverty.  And even that doesn’t tell the true story.  The number is 29% among African Americans here; 40% among Latinos.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, boston, childhood poverty, children, democrats, don berwick, ending-childhood-poverty, governor, income-inequality, inequality, ma, ma-gov, massachusetts, poverty

Retiring NE’s Coal and Oil Electric Plants

June 22, 2013 By gmoke Leave a Comment

The Restructuring Roundtable is a mostly monthly (it takes the summer months off) meeting of the energy sector in Boston that takes a morning to discuss energy issues in depth with the major players from all around NE. There is also much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, electricity, energy, ISO-NE, ma, policy, renewables, solar, zero-emissions

Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs

January 12, 2013 By gmoke 1 Comment

Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs: An Urgently Needed Land-Based Option Friday, January 25, 2013 2:00 - 4:00 PM, ASEAN Auditorium The Fletcher School, 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA Reception to follow RSVP at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Allan Savory, climate-change, ecological design, Holistic Management, ma, tufts

The Next Industrial Revolution Is Ecological

December 2, 2012 By gmoke Leave a Comment

John Todd could be considered one of the founders of ecological design. For the past forty years or so, he has been building enclosed ecologies, first, for growing fish, John was one of the original growers of tilapia in the USA, and later … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecological design, ecology, environment, john-todd, ma, wastewater treatment

We are all equal under the law. Or…?

November 5, 2012 By matthew02144 Leave a Comment

I made this last night and posted it on Facebook. Several friends have shared it as well. I thought I might post it here for the same reason... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012, brown, election, ma, massachusetts, obama, romney, warren

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jglarussoJoe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇@jglarusso·
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Great threaded summary by @ssteingraber1 of remarks by @howarth_cornell relating fracking to rise in quantities of methane released into the atmosphere. https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1205901002467106816

Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1

1/ FRACKING THREAD. I’m here at the Ithaca Community School for Music and Arts to hear world methane expert @howarth_cornell present new science on #fracking and the climate crisis. Will try to live tweet. Full house! Lots of legendary grassroots leaders here.@MothersOutFront

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Curt_Nordgaard⛰🏔⛰@Curt_Nordgaard·
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The Massachusetts coastline flooded yesterday.

What happened? A high tide around the full moon. That's all.

Tell people around you that the global humanitarian and ecological crisis of climate change has already started. https://twitter.com/dotmalo/status/1205936919944847363

Dot Malone@DotMalo

It’s fine, I’ll wait til low tide to leave the house #Dorchester

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AlexSteffenAlex Steffen@AlexSteffen·
12 Dec

Our entire public debate is decades behind the realities we know we face now, and as we understand those realities better, most of our findings will reveal our problems to be even more pressing than we thought they were.

That's just what the 2020s are going be like. https://twitter.com/DrNoelHealy/status/1204204976953626624

Noel Healy@DrNoelHealy

This final slide from @MichaelEMann is devastating. The time for incremental climate policy is over.🚨He estimates annual emissions may have to drop by 15% a year (rather than 7.5%)🚨. In other words we have zero years to tackle climate change. We need a #GreenNewDeal now #GND

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Terrible, Terrible, Terrible https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/terrible-terrible-terrible

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TheViewFromLL2Susan Simpson@TheViewFromLL2·
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The take away of this story doesn't seem to be that impeachment is bad for Democrats. It's that opposing impeachment is so bad for Democrats they can't remain Democrats. https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1205949264515481600

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NEWS: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who opposes impeachment, plans to switch parties and become a Republican.

Staff were informed today. Question now is when, not if, he makes it official.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036

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