The French Parliament recently approved a new law requiring all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants or solar … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – August 2022
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - August 2022 **Index** **Conferences** Decolonizing and Regrowing Our Food Systems Friday, August 5 - Sunday, August 7 —— TEDxBoston Traction Monday August 15 —— **Lecture … [Read more...]
Playing with Electric Trains as a Climate Tactic
From Edwin Black's book, Internal Combustion, about the Milwaukee Road, an electric rail system: "Sometimes electrified railways seemed to defy the laws of perpetual motion. For example, when the brakes were applied or the train traveled … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – July 2022
**Index** **Lecture Series** Announcing our Flourish Fiction Summer Workshop Series 2022! Prompt Generation Workshop – July 6, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Infinite Hope: Imagining a Better World – July 20, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Open Feedback … [Read more...]
Thorstein Veblen on Leisure Class Government
from The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen Mineola, NY: Dover, 1994 [originally published 1899] (ISBN 0-486-28062-4) (page 49) So, those offices which are by right the proper employment of the leisure class are noble; … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – June 2022
**Index** **Conferences** Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Symposium Thursday, June 2 - June 3 MA Solidarity Economy / Worker Co-op Festival & Gathering Saturday & Sunday, June 4-5 The Pulitzer Center's 2022 … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 5, 2022
Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard/ Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience How we might build a food utopia … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – May 2022
——— Index ——— —————— Conferences —————— Tuesday, May 3 Graduate workshop: Data-driven environmental economics research from the EPA Thursday, June 2 - June 3 Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum … [Read more...]
Mr Franklin’s Folks
Preface: I originally wrote this a couple of decades ago, based upon my experiences working with a traveling energy show in the 1970s and 1980s and my own experiments with public displays of renewable energy at farmers’ markets … [Read more...]
Planning for Extreme Heat: NY, Phoenix, California, and Beyond
Boston University organized a talk on how Phoenix, New York, and the State of California are planning for extreme heat the other … [Read more...]
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