I wonder how many people remember the New Alchemy Institute which, from 1969 to 1991, experimented with wind power, solar power, intensive regenerative agriculture, aquaculture, and many other ideas now becoming big business and a way out … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – November 14, 2021
Living the Noom - near net zero energy buildings with vertical forests https://www.yankodesign.com/2021/07/22/breathtaking-residential-building-in-mexico-comes-with-its-own-vertical-forest-and-solar-panels-on-its-terrace/ El Terreno - a … [Read more...]
Energy Event: MIT Materials Day Symposium: Role of Materials in Addressing Climate Change & Sustainability
These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. The local … [Read more...]
Media Crime
Each TV network has 24 hours of prime time every week. CBS has 16 hours of crime shows Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are 3 hour blocks of crime. Sunday maybe even more if you count the segments on 60 Minutes on crimes. NBC … [Read more...]
“Rejected Energy” and Heat Mapping the EU
USAmerica generates around 100 quadrillion BTUs per year, more or less, and has plateaued at that level since 2000. However, about 67% of the energy produced is characterized as “rejected energy,” energy that does no useful work, according … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – August 26, 2021
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy - Report shows meeting Paris climate goals would add trillions of dollars in economic … [Read more...]
Carbon Coin
from Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Page 294: They [a consortium of all the big central banks, with open access for more central banks to join] would issue together a single new currency, coordinated through the BIS … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – August 10, 2021
Positive net energy campus for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania https://inhabitat.com/phipps-conservatory-and-botanical-gardens-leeds-the-way-in-green-design/ Amsterdam and Paris exchange on urban … [Read more...]
To Catch the Sun: DIY Solar Handbook
To Catch the Sun (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonnyg/to-catch-the-sun) is a book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to harness their own solar energy, with the nitty-gritty details so you can do it too! Learn … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – July 8, 2021
Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html NB: Geotherapy can work from flower pot on a windowsill scale to thousands of hectares and should be part of the thinking … [Read more...]
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