“Tree-like” vertical farms for Brooklyn? https://www.framlab.com/glasir https://www.core77.com/posts/94000/Could-These-Tree-Like-Vertical-Farms-Be-the-Future-of-Urban-Farming Underground parking lot to organic mushroom farm in Paris … [Read more...]
COVID19 and Energy: What McKinsey Thinks
On Tuesday, April 28, I attended an online seminar on Energy and COVID19 organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group (https://www.huceg.org/) with Scott S. Nyquist and Luciano Di Fiori both of the consulting firm McKinsey and … [Read more...]
COVID19: Iceland
Iceland has been testing its population for COVID19 probably more than any other country: "The latest [April 6, 2020] figures on covid.is (https://www.covid.is) show that a total of 1,486 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Iceland, … [Read more...]
COVID19: Food and Agriculture Resources
Regional Northeast Regional Agriculture and COVID19 Wednesday, April 8 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Online RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJ0tcuihrT8ouZJuXnaDemygSBJUTBFyFQ Maine Farmland Trust and NESAWG will … [Read more...]
Open Sourcing Solutions to COVID19: Mutual Aid, Citizen Scientists, Makers, Gardeners, Artists…..
"You could say that civil society is what unimpaired mutual aid creates; or that civil society is the condition and mutual aid the activity that produces it.” - Rebecca Solnit, from A Paradise Built in Hell [my notes at … [Read more...]
Report from Taiwan: Friends Return to the USA to Compare and Contrast
My friends and former co-workers, Marc and Sally, love to travel the world and this year spent some of February and March in Taiwan. This is their account of the response of Taiwan to COVID19, the letter they sent to friends after they … [Read more...]
Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid
MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]
Crowd Sourcing Solutions to COVID19
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590 The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of patients and safety … [Read more...]
Mutual Aid Networks
Mutual aid networks are being formed in the neighborhoods in Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Arlington, and other communities. My Nextdoor account (https://nextdoor.com) is filling up with people offering help to others as MA goes into … [Read more...]
What I Read in the Green New Deal for Public Housing Bill
The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (these comments come from the draft https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/OCASNY_053_xml.pdf but the actual bill has now been filed at … [Read more...]
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