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...]
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – April 2022
These kinds of events below 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. This is a … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – March 31, 2022
Treehouse with "green walls, facades and rooftops, plus water features, natural light, and ventilation strategies to green the traditional office building,” winning an award from the World Green Building … [Read more...]
A Pattern Language of Work: Remembering Christopher Alexander
I just learned that Christopher Alexander, the principal writer and force behind A Pattern Language, died on March 17. This is to remember him, someone who made me see with a new focus. A Pattern Language of Work earlier version … [Read more...]
Climate Deadlines
According to this carbon countdown clock (https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/clock/carbon_clock.htm), at the current rate (1,337 tonnes per second or 42.2 gigatonnes [Gt] per year), the most CO2 we can emit to stay below 1.5ºC rise … [Read more...]
Interface: From Living Zero to Climate Take Back
I met Ray Anderson in 1996 at a conference about The Natural Step (https://thenaturalstep.org), an environmental action framework from Sweden. He had founded Interface (http://www.interface.com/US/en-US/homepage), a carpet tile … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – March 2022
These kinds of events below 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. This is a … [Read more...]
How to Counter Putin and Reduce Climate Change or Reversing the Energy Weapon
The impending (2/20/22) invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia is, at least in part, an energy war. Certainly, he is using the methane Russia sells to the EU and neighboring countries as a weapon. Russia supplies a third to a half … [Read more...]
Science Fiction Futures Now at Boskone 59
Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England. Boskone is an entirely fan volunteers … [Read more...]
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