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Toward Net Zero Energy: Tiny Houses on Up

August 27, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

The Laney College Carpentry Department in Oakland, California built a net zero tiny house, the Wedge, in 2016 for the SMUD Net Zero Tiny House Competition https://youtu.be/PyxJQynaC_c That tiny house is for sale … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, design, ecology, energy, environment, sustainability, tiny house

Zero Net Energy – August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Santa Monica civic building will produce net positive energy and going for full Living Building challenge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, climate, construction, ecology, energy, environment, Green New Deal, solar

What I Read in the Green New Deal for Public Housing Bill

December 22, 2019 By gmoke 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, environment, green-jobs, GreenNewDeal, net zero energy, public-housing, renewables, solar, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – July 23, 2019

July 23, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Zero-energy demonstration project in Beijing made from pre-fab timber … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, buildings, ecology, energy, environment, Green New Deal, planning, real-estate, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – May 14, 2018

May 14, 2018 By gmoke 2 Comments

Design for World’s First Energy Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle https://snohetta.com/projects/366-svart https://inhabitat.com/snohetta-unveils-designs-for-worlds-first-energy-positive-hotel-in-the-arctic-circle/ Editorial Comment: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, city planning, climate-change, ecology, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, environment

Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA

March 26, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

For the past year, the Cambridge, MA city government has had a Getting to Net Zero Task Force studying the implications of a net zero energy building requirement. They finished the draft report on March 16, 2015 and will have an open forum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, cambridge, construction, district heating, ecology, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, environment, housing, ma, municipal government, net zero emissions, net zero energy, renewable, solar

Urban Agriculture

March 9, 2015 By gmoke 3 Comments

Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, architecture, boston, cities, design, environment, food, gardening, Milan

Cities Scale: Boston Living with Water

February 25, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Cities scale is where real climate change adaptation is taking place, now, whether or not we have national or international agreements on greenhouse gases. Cities and regions have to deal with weather emergencies and, it turns out, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, boston, cambridge, cities, climate-change, design, ecology, environment, mit, sea-level-rise, urban planning

Reprogramming the City

September 22, 2013 By gmoke Leave a Comment

There's a great exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects down by South Station called "Reprogramming the City" (http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/reprogramming-the-city/). It is all about small but significant design tweaks for urban … [Read more...]

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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This won't do at all.

John Lerner 🌲❄️🌎🌹🗽⚖️🌲@johnflerner

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This is horrible

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/national-guard-troops-vacate-capitol-461220

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They did the same with Obama and the economy in January '09.

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Yesterday Hannity was ranting about how it’s awful that Biden hadn’t solved the COVID crisis yet, hours after he was inaugurated https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-attacks-president-biden-not-having-covid-pandemic-under-control

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amywesterveltAmy Westervelt@amywestervelt·
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My mother is very proud that I’m the one dropping an f bomb in this bitch. Seriously though, it’s time to widen the lens of climate accountability. Big Oil relies on enablers, and they shouldn’t escape scrutiny https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1352389540334481410

Bill McKibben@billmckibben

Ad agencies and PR agencies are renting themselves to the fossil fuel industry, supplying the creative juice necessary to wreck the planet. Please--do something different with your talents!

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brianr2600Brian RIstuccia@brianr2600·
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@BostonDotCom Seventeen speeding tickets, at least 7 wrecks, and 6 license suspensions. Why do we need to wait until someone dies before permanently revoking the license of a driver who has repeatedly demonstrated that they can't be trusted to operate an automobile safely? #mapoli #ZeroVision

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erik_griswoldErik Never Forgets@erik_griswold·
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@bluemassgroup @BostonGlobe More details not behind a paywall:

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