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Getting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA

March 26, 2015 By gmoke

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

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

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

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, boston, cities, design, ecology, environment

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