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Energy Model of Boston

February 26, 2016 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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 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

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

Natural Gas Leaks: Methane Management

June 13, 2014 By gmoke 5 Comments

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 Leave a Comment

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 2 Comments

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 10 Comments

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 7 Comments

[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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mombianMombian@mombian·
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This seems like a good day to remind the MA Legislature that more work remains to ensure all children in MA are equally protected, regardless of the circumstances of their birth or the gender or marital status of their parents! Pass the @MassParentage Act Now! #MApoli

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pwcrozierPolly Crozier@pwcrozier·
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This was a day & remember it so well. My home state first in marriage equality. But MA, you are last in New England in protecting LGBTQ families. This is the session to pass the MPA @MassParentage #mapoli @GLADLaw @ResolveNewEng

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On this day in 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the United States to legalize same sex marriage.

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ElfOnSiteAshTheElf👀@ElfOnSite·
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17 May 2022

28+ on site, basically rebuilding, & a big red toxic dumpster. Nat’l Grid present too.

Rule 1: @FERC you can still save residents & the 🌎. Learn to care. Say #NoWeymouthCompressor to #Enbridge.

Rule 2: @PHMSA_DOT follow rule No 1.

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SUMMER TRAVEL: Despite record gas prices, AAA predicts summer travel "will be on fire" this year, with 39.2 million people in the U.S. heading 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend, an increase of 8.3 percent over 2021. Most will travel by car. #mapoli

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AnnissaForBosAnnissa Essaibi George@AnnissaForBos·
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Thanks @TamiGouveiaMA for joining us for #familyroompolitics last night. We had a great discussion about issues important to those in the room and loved hearing about your work today and plans as LG. Next week we do it again! #mapoli #bospoli

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.@JP progressives state senate candidate forum on May 19 https://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2022/05/17/state-senate-candidate-forum-on-may-19/423148 #bospoli #mapoli #JamaicaPlain

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