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Energy Model of Boston

February 26, 2016 By gmoke

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46GkHSYvYE The Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has built a model which estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year, nearly 100,000 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climatechange, ecology, energy, EnergyEfficiency, environment, green, mit, UrbanDesign

Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation

July 12, 2015 By gmoke

The Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee which has been meeting around the campus for the last few months is now available at http://web.mit.edu/vpr/climate/climatereport.html This report is in preparation for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climate-change, energy, environment, mit

Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project

April 3, 2015 By gmoke

Boston, MA, April 2, 2015--Helping to kick off Harvard’s first annual “Climate Week,” centenarian F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., and 97-year-old Del Markoff, Harvard Business School’s oldest living alumni, are calling on the school’s alumni, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Academia, business, cambridge, climate-change, Divestment, ecology, education, environment, harvard, Harvard Business School

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

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

Natural Gas Leaks: Methane Management

June 13, 2014 By gmoke

This summer, the Squeaky Leak Project (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/squeaky-leak--2#home) will drive down every street in Cambridge and Somerville, MA with a high-precision methane analyzer and map all the natural gas leaks in these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, greenhouse-gas, heet, ma, methane, natural-gas, somerville

MIT at Flood Level

May 3, 2014 By gmoke

On Friday, May 2, 2014 FossilFreeMIT (http://www.fossilfreemit.org) declared a flood zone all around their campus at Hurricane Sandy strength plus projected 2050 sea level rise to publicize their divestment campaign. It was also a good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, cambridge, climate-change, demonstrations, Divestment, ecology, environment, flood, mit

Methane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring

March 10, 2014 By gmoke

HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring project in Cambridge and Somerville. Boston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, bu, cambridge, climate-change, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, greenhouse-gases, heat, heet, massachusetts, methane, Nathan Phillips, natural-gas, somerville

“Net zero is not a practical goal in New England”

February 26, 2014 By gmoke

Peter Wilson [in a Cambridgewickedlocal with news from the Chronicle and Tab LtE http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140220/NEWS/140229717/2014/OPINION] wrote that "Net zero is not a practical goal in New England" and that may or may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, ecology, energy, environment, net zero, pollution, waste

Cambridge debates switching on its surveillance cameras after Marathon attacks

August 9, 2013 By marthews

[Cross-posted at Digital Fourth] The city of Cambridge, MA is considering whether to switch on its network of surveillance cameras. Councillor Craig Kelley, who chairs the Public Safety Subcommittee, scheduled three public hearings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, cambridge-city-council, massachusetts, surveillance

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