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City Agriculture – July 31, 2022

July 31, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cityplanning, climate, ecology, energy, environment, farming, food, gardening, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – August 2022

July 30, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, boston, climate, ecology, education, energy, environment, events, learning, renewables, sustainability

Playing with Electric Trains as a Climate Tactic

July 3, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cars, ecology, energy, environment, freight, railroads, regenerative braking, sustainability, transportation, trucks

Energy (and Other) Events – July 2022

July 1, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

**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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, economics, eduction, energy, environment, events, learning, listings, politics, renewables, sustainability

Thorstein Veblen on Leisure Class Government

June 22, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democracy, economics, government, politics, public-opinion, sociology, Thorstein Veblen

Energy (and Other) Events – June 2022

May 31, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

**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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Brookings Institution, climate, ecology, education, energy, environment, events, mit, sustainability

City Agriculture – May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cities, city planning, ecology, environment, food, gardening, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events – May 2022

May 1, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

——— 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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, energy, environment, events, harvard, listings, mit, sustainability, transportation

Mr Franklin’s Folks

April 21, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate resiliency, ecology, emergency preparedness, environment, farmers'markets, positive protest, renewables, solar, sustainability

Planning for Extreme Heat: NY, Phoenix, California, and Beyond

April 14, 2022 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Boston University organized a talk on how Phoenix, New York, and the State of California are planning for extreme heat the other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: city planning, climate resilience, climate-energy-politics, ecology, emergency preparedness, energy, environment, heatwave, sustainability, trees, urban planning

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repkearney Patrick Kearney @repkearney ·
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While Trump and his cronies were undermining democracy, @SenMarkey and @joekennedy were running against each other, and @JakeAuch @jessemermell @BeckyWGrossman were running for Congress @cdempc didn’t vote. Don’t bother voting for someone that doesn’t bother to vote #mapoli

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teapartyusa1 Chris Lynch @teapartyusa1 ·
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Ask @CharlieBakerMA + Frank Baker why they're ok with interim DA Hayden not charging an off-duty transit cop then changing his mind after @BostonGlobe runs the story.

MA+Boston made a commitment to delivering justice with reforms. Let's do w/ #SuffolkCo DA pick #MaPoli #BosPoli

Chris Lynch @TeaPartyUSA1

@wtfdic_hour @ErinforBoston @AnnissaForBos @RepStephenLynch @DAKevinHayden Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden faces calls to resign amid transit police controversy https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/08/suffolk-da-kevin-hayden-faces-calls-to-resign-amid-transit-police-controversy.html #MaPoli #BosPoli

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mayordriscoll Kim Driscoll @mayordriscoll ·
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Thanks @BrandonLRobbins + the hardworking staff/volunteers at Ginny's Helping Hand for the work you do to close gaps in food security and help fellow neighbors. Working together, we can end hunger in Massachusetts. #mapoli

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jamieeldridgema Jamie Eldridge @jamieeldridgema ·
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Another perspective on #climateaction & #maleg #climatechange bill- yep, that MASSIVE #Massachusetts energy industry of coal, oil & gas! This bill creates #cleanenergy jobs- in #offshorewind & #solar! @CharlieBakerMA be the moderate R you say you are & #SignMAClimateBill #mapoli

Matt Lynch @BraintreeLynch

It was really hot...in summer. We need to destroy our energy industry because the climate...changed.
What a scumbag https://twitter.com/JamieEldridgeMA/status/1557726676393799680

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spfldworks Springfield WORKS @spfldworks ·
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Grateful for @DisruptPoverty. It is time to eliminate cliff effects in MA by getting this pilot off the ground! @EconPathwaysMA @FoodBankWMA @rsullivanWMEDC @WCACinfo
Thank you @EricLesser @Vote4gonzalez, @RepDuffy and co-sponsors for your leadership #mapoli #cliffeffects

Chelsea Sedani @ChelseaSedani

Our system penalizes families for making progress! It’s time to make the cliff effect pilot a reality so we can mitigate #cliffeffects, provide families with mentoring & help them move forward. Grateful to partner with @econpathwaysMA @foodbankWMA @SpfldWORKS #mapoli https://twitter.com/disruptpoverty/status/1557740628691529729

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jamieeldridgema Jamie Eldridge @jamieeldridgema ·
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.@StpDV4all I was 4 gay marriage before 2003 SJC decision, helped lead effort for marriage #equality 2003-2007, led Senate effort to pass immigrant human trafficking 2021 law, & again Dangerousness bill had lots of opposition from DV, civil rights & civil liberties groups #mapoli

angry survivor @StpDV4all

The women of #Mass wake up! Please for your daughters and their daughters. Men like ⁦@JamieEldridgeMA⁩ need to be booted out of power. Election in nov. he is against gay marriage and steps on immigrant women backs for his agenda help us ⁦@TDove51

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