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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs or How to Talk about Climate

January 22, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm) says wind turbine service technician jobs should grow 61% over the next decade, the #1 fastest growing job for the next decade. Solar photovoltaic [PV] installer* is the third fastest growing job with a growth rate of 51%.

Now imagine if we pursued a goal of 100% renewables by 2030. Mark Z Jacobson and his team have provided one possible roadmap to do just that (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/3/1831985/-100-Renewables-by-2030).

Even more jobs would be created if we got serious about energy efficiency and began to retrofit our existing buildings to net zero energy or near net zero energy standards, where a building provides all or most of the energy it needs on its own. Such building energy standards are being gradually adopted in the EU and CA where all building, including renovations, will have to meet those standards by 2030. In addition, there is at least one company, EnergieSprong, which is developing prefab, mass production methods to do such energy retrofits on existing buildings (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/9/1824927/-Mass-Production-of-Net-Zero-Energy-Retrofits-for-Single-Family-Homes).

For comparison, in 1979 Jimmy Carter’s energy plan called for insulating 90% of American homes and all new buildings and use solar energy in more than 2.5 million homes by 1985. There were 1.3 million solar installations in the USA in 2017 by one count and may be 1.9 million in 2019 by another. The DOE predicted there will be 3.8 million solar homes by the end of 2020. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/17/1906361/-What-I-Read-in-the-Green-New-Deal-for-Public-Housing-Bill). However, since there are over 83 million single family homes in the USA, we still have a long way to go.

I’ve been wondering for a while now why politicians, citizen advocates, and organizations who support action on climate don’t focus on this extremely positive aspect of confronting climate crisis. We seem to like scaring ourselves more than focusing on building a really livable future (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/20/1851903/-Why-isn-t-job-growth-the-first-thing-climate-activists-mention).

These first days of a Biden administration may be the perfect time to be practical and demand the impossible: making 90% of our homes net zero or near net zero energy and getting 100% of our energy from renewables by 2030.

*Solar installer should be a highly trained and skilled job (with better pay) as 92% of solar system failures are from installation mistakes, according to Scott Sklar, a long-time energy advocate and practitioner. North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (https://www.nabcep.org) certifies installers and you might want to ask if your installer has heard of them.

“Who’s Delaying Climate Action in Massachusetts?”

January 22, 2021 By Charley on the MTA 2 Comments

A new report from Brown University* proves what we already knew: Climate action in Massachusetts is bought off and delayed by well-heeled special interest lobbies. This is in spite of overwhelming public support in polls, and a display of activist power in the form of testimony at hearings and the like.

The most blatant example of this comes in the form of Governor Baker’s veto of the climate bill, citing cost figures for a net-zero stretch code ($6 billion! Wow!) that no one can figure out where they come from or how they’re derived. It doesn’t take too much imagination to infer that they came from the real estate development lobby.

From the Brown report’s executive summary — it’s about what you’d expect, and what you’ve been hearing for years about Our Dumb Process [emphasis mine]:

The study can be summarized in a dozen findings we document with quantitative and interview data:

1:​ Four distinct industry coalitions lobby against environmentalists
2:​ Testimony in legislative committees is nine to one in support of climate action
3:​ On lobbying, clean energy advocates are outspent more than 3.5 to one
4:​ Renewable energy interest groups stick to narrow industrial interests
5:​ Utilities lobby against solar energy, but support large hydro & wind power
6:​ Utility companies are uniquely successful throughout the legislative process
7:​ AIM (Associated Industries of Mass.) lobbies and speaks against rapid climate action
8:​ The fossil fuel industry lobbies heavily against pipeline rules, divestment, and carbon pricing
9:​ The real estate industry resists residential energy efficiency bills
10:​ Power generators fight hydro and wind supply
11:​ Opponents no longer deny the reality of climate change, but focus on cost and reliability
12:​ Climate action is tightly controlled by State House committees and leadership

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Our systematic review shows that the vast majority of public testimony given in legislative committee hearings supports climate action—major energy and utilities corporations and their trade groups only rarely submit public testimony in opposition to legislation advancing climate action here. Despite seeing strong support in legislative testimony for environmentalists’ priorities, however, the evidence shows a completely different story behind closed doors. We find that the state’s utilities and their allies are the most powerful actors in the state climate and energy policy landscape. Fossil fuel, real estate, and power generation interests also play significant roles opposing environmentalists in the legislature.

A singular moment: Sonja Tengblad of Mothers Out Front sings “What a Wonderful World”; Gardner Auditorium, State House, 11/12/19. (Does the real estate lobby sing to the Governor behind closed doors?)

This definitely squares with my observations. You never hear much dissension in a public hearing, and the rooms tend to be packed with enviro coalition members, who have done their homework and brought people out to show public support, which is real, broad, and deep. You would hardly be aware of a fossil fuel lobby! AIM doesn’t poke up its head; the real estate industry doesn’t send in a flack to push back (as far as I can remember); etc. Why not? Oh, they’d get hissed, or at least endure some serious side-eye in a hostile room. Their demands are not popular! Not in a hearing room, and not in the public at large.

Now, it’s interesting that this report comes out now, when the climate bill, and the legislature itself, are in a bit of flux. The Roadmap bill did pass, after all, and it’s a major bill. It did not include, however, the mandate for 100% renewable energy by 2045 (Garballey-Decker amendment), which would have had sharper teeth and higher ambitions. Speaker DeLeo didn’t allow the bill in its entirety to pass until the absolute last minute of the session and his own Speakership. As former Sen. Ben Downing has stated and the report re-states, this timing enables lobbyists and leadership at everyone else’s expense:

This haphazard process benefits one group and one group only – entrenched special interests. Without time for public debate and input, special interests defending the status quo have an outsized voice. They are able to kill or water down some of the very proposals which could help tackle the major issues Massachusetts is facing, simply because the legislature waited till it was too late. Instead of having to defend their position multiple times under the harsh light of public scrutiny they are able to do so once or twice, if at all, in hushed conversations in the State House halls.

This leaves us waiting for a plume of white smoke announcing a bill … or as has been the case up to this point, nothing.

So, nothing we didn’t already know, I suppose! Kudos to Speaker Mariano and Senate President Spilka for putting the bill back in the Governor’s face  — although, as Sen. Barrett worries, this is definitely an opportunity for even yet still more big-money lobbyist mischief. We should keep the net-zero stretch code.

It shouldn’t have taken this long. We’re not on time; we’re about 30 years late. All this special interest power has deprived us of time we didn’t have.


*Ironic we had to get a Rhode Island joint to point out our faults.

City Agriculture – January 21, 2021, the Happy Inauguration Issue

January 21, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

A rooftop forest for Rotterdam
https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2603/with-construction-almost-complete-depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-prepares-for-preview-opening-in-september

https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2652/depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-rooftop-forest-awarded-rooftop-award-2020
https://inhabitat.com/an-award-winning-forest-tops-the-worlds-first-publicly-accessible-art-depot/

Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming by Megan Tatum
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/13/1009497/singapore-vertical-farming-food-security/ (subscribers only)

Evanlee Organics
http://www.evanleeorganics.com

Hothouse – “an arched greenhouse as part of London Design Festival, which is filled with plants that it predicts will soon be able to grow outdoors in the UK due to climate change.”
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/14/studio-weave-hothouse-greenhouse-london-design-festival/
https://inhabitat.com/hothouse-installation-grows-tropical-plants-in-the-middle-of-london/

Researchers granted $1 Million to advance urban agriculture
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/11/30/ub-researchers-awarded-1-million-grant-to-advance-urban-agriculture

This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Out-Produces 720 Acre ‘Flat Farms’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/
https://inhabitat.com/is-high-yield-vertical-farming-the-future-of-agriculture/

Rehabbing Quito, Ecuador’s bullring stadium for food production
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/12/15/reimagining-a-bullring-for-food-production

Freight Farms shipping container growing systems partners with Arcadia Partnership for clean energy to power food growing
https://www.freightfarms.com/news/arcadia-partnership
Editorial Comment: InFarm is the only stand-alone growing system I know of which has included energy and resource efficiency from the beginning. A few years ago, I had the chance to ask one of the founders of Freight Farms about whether they had thought of energy efficiency as they started and his answer was no. Good to see that they are now stepping up
https://www.infarm.de
https://www.fastcompany.com/3058155/at-this-supermarket-the-produce-section-grows-its-own-produce
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/27/growing-without-farming/

And a research project for net zero farming:
University of Toronto Scarborough & Centennial College developing Canada’s first net zero vertical farm
https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/our-community/u-t-scarborough-centennial-college-partnering-develop-canadas-first-net-zero-vertical
https://www.treehugger.com/resilience/university-toronto-planning-net-zero-vertical-farm.html

Mapping U.S. Food System Localization Potential: The Impact of Diet on Foodsheds
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b07582#.X92mS

Paris approves plan to make Champs Elysees into a garden
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/paris-approves-plan-to-turn-champs-elysees-into-extraordinary-garden-anne-hidalgo
hat tip: Gil Friend

Calculating the carbon footprint of vertical farming and traditional farming
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2021/1/20/calculating-the-carbon-footprint-of-vertical-farming-and-traditional-farming

Editorial Comment: City Agriculture is a free listserv (contact the editor, gmoke@world.std.com to subscribe) and every link from 2014 on is archived at http://cityag.blogspot.com

“Democracy has prevailed”

January 20, 2021 By Charley on the MTA 1 Comment

From the inside of the Lincoln Memorial, Dec 2019

From the inside of the Lincoln Memorial, Dec 2019

And so the Presidency of Joe Biden begins. It is beautiful and telegenic — the rippling flags on the Mall and the ranks of National Guard making a striking image. The latter should have been unnecessary: This isn’t a peaceful transfer of power, but a transfer nonetheless, and a patriotic event in spite of everything. I appreciate Sen. Blunt’s gracious and appropriate remarks, acknowledging the unconscionable threat to democracy posed by the rioters, and honoring and even celebrating the result of democratic processes.

The change of tone, the honorable use of the bully pulpit, will be such a vast difference we will hardly know how to receive it. (The absence of Trump from the usual media megaphones is palpable, isn’t it?) Biden is stubborn about appealing to unity, even while acknowledging that it sounds like a fantasy. I suppose that’s his duty. Nonetheless, he spoke of “lies, lies told for power and for profit.” Unity doesn’t mean losing discernment. Biden is where he is because he walks that line. He’ll get no allowance in the arenas of social media, where having two ideas in mind at a time is suspect. Fortunately he pays no attention.

Biden has shown himself to be more impressive than I would have expected: More resilient, more temperate — but also bolder when necessary, when the facts demand it. “It’s time for boldness”, he says, exhorting the public to move forward in ways that he’s already demonstrating. His kind of expansive, hopeful decency is the way out.

Onward, not a moment too soon.

“41 minutes of fear” – video narrative of the Capitol riot

January 18, 2021 By Charley on the MTA 6 Comments

If you haven’t seen this 15 minute video at the Washington Post, it’s necessary to understand the terror of January 6th. The Washington Post put together videos from a variety of sources to create a timeline of events. Everything unfolded with astonishing speed; the Post’s video is a third as long as the actual events in real time.

I can’t embed it; here’s the link:

https://wapo.st/39x2pMg

Let there be no doubt: Many of the rioters were absolutely out for blood. The term “banality of evil” of course comes to mind; every one of the rioters will seem as familiar and “knowable” as family. It’s not just banal, it’s uncomfortably close. This is, literally, who we are.

As such, I think there will be calls for light prosecution. Absolutely this has a racist valence to it: A mob of Black rioters would face the absolute worst the legal system could throw at them, cheered on by the President, every Republican in Congress, and probably more than a few Democrats. These rioters knew what they were doing; the act was premeditated; they weren’t ashamed. In fact, they took copious, self-incriminating video. (The rioters were not aware of, or thought themselves immune to, the Stringer Bell rule.) The Post put that to good use, as will prosecutors, I trust.

I believe in repentance. I believe in the morality of the Prodigal Son. Former Olympic swimmer Klete Keller took part, and now seems deeply ashamed of himself. That can be taken into account, though he should still face legal jeopardy. Contrast this to the Dallas realtor who simply is asking Trump for a pardon – ie impunity without repentance. Throw the book at her.

Can you imagine your neighbor, your crazy uncle, your Facebook “friend” that posts right-wing memes with a hint of menace, rioting at the Capitol? In other words, following through on the language of Trump, amplified by a pathologically greedy and destructive rightist media industry? Well, they did, and they filmed it themselves.

MLK Day: In spite of all, a window of opportunity

January 18, 2021 By Charley on the MTA Leave a Comment

Placard from memorial march reading “HONOR KING: END RACISM!”
National Museum of African American History and Culture

First things first: Don’t read me, read MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, for a poke and prod of motivation.

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fan in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.


Not two weeks since a white-nationalist riot at the nation’s capital, it seems hard to zoom out, to take a wider view of racial politics. We don’t need to erase the rise and endurance of Trumpism from our evaluation. The recrudescence of the violent, conspiratorial right wing is in explicit reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement: BLM is the arch-villain in their alternate-reality cinematic universe. The “white moderate” waiting for a “more convenient season” gives the same answer as the MAGA-hat whatabouting the supposed destructiveness of BLM: Whether decorous or abrasive, No is No.

Some people with political power and status feel threatened today. Their status may be imagined or real; it might be economic, or racial-caste-based; but they feel their world is being upended. In a way, they are right. I’m not alone in thinking this moment in our racial history feels different, more pregnant with possibility. That’s why the reactionaries are reacting.

This is evident in the Georgia Senate victories and here as well. In Boston and Massachusetts, the political scene is actually changing, in personnel and in policy, and in the assumptions about what is achievable. As Marty Walsh goes to Washington, Kim Janey will become the first Black woman mayor of Boston. The city just added the Obama administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule to its zoning code, to counter the legacy — sorry, the current practices, actually — of discrimination and displacement.

On the state level, the legislature just passed amendments to the climate bill addressing environmental- and energy justice, increasing low-income access to solar power (which the Governor vetoed, of course). The legislature passed a police reform bill — not as strong as it should be, but nonetheless its passage proved that the political juice of police unions has its limits; the Governor specifically cited the power of the Black and Latino caucus when signing the bill. Last year the state passed a major restructuring of school funding which is supposed to especially help low-income communities of color — although, perversely, the state is not obligated to actually find the money to find the money! The incomplete, provisional quality of these measures is proof of the challenges they faced. Nonetheless, they exist, a foundation to build upon. Nothing is complete.

History is not progress. Whatever gains have been made by previous generations are long since compounded, and the passage of time eats into the principal. As Keynes observed, in the long run we’re all dead. Any parent knows how fast kids grow up, how time flies; how much more so for children growing up in deprivation as the result of discrimination — especially as COVID rends wider the gap of inequality. Those kids will not get their childhoods back; they’re not experiencing “progress” right now — just the opposite.

But in spite of all the darkness we see in on this very day, we are nonetheless living in a window of opportunity for action. And as Sonia Chang-Diaz said on the Senate floor last year, that window may close. How much policy will improve the lived reality of African-Americans is another question still. But if we don’t appreciate what’s happening right now, and identify progress when it happens, I fear we’ll neglect to defend it when it’s under attack. But it surely should be motivating to those who have taken the last few months, or years, or a lifetime, to try to push this boulder uphill.

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Hey #mapoli please tell me come 2022 we are going to remember how Charlie Baker mismanaged the COVID vaccine rollout, vetoed the consensus police reform bill, vetoed abortion access, vetoed the consensus climate bill, didn’t fund the SOA, and slashed transit. Please.

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The New York Times Editorial Board(!) writes that @MassGovernor's push for @MBTA cuts in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic is "small-minded and shortsighted".

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"Service cuts punish those who need public transit the most ... Policymakers need to make choices now that will serve the public interest in the long term. They need to ensure the trains & buses keep running." #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318

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Focus on the record - "small minded and shortsighted" justification for transit cuts that make it tougher to reduce emissions, harm those in need and hold back our recovery #mapoli https://twitter.com/cdempc/status/1353002390560141318?s=20

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Focus on the record - vetoing proposals that would break MA out of our failed transportation status quo https://twitter.com/BenjaminDowning/status/1352325656076541958?s=20

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