Geotherapy not geoengineering, please. "Geotherapy refers to the process of restoring the earth’s health by strengthening natural biogeochemical and physiological mechanisms that regulate the earth’s planetary life support systems and … [Read more...]
Planning the Energy Transition
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve run across what might be a few really useful reports on the energy transition. The Lancet is doing an annual climate countdown report to monitor our progress. Here is this year’s edition: … [Read more...]
What the Right (Which Admits Climate Change Is Real) Believes
I’ve been publishing a free weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA for more than a decade as a listserv and a webpage (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). It covers public events in the community and in the local … [Read more...]
Lobbying Speaker DeLeo: Bring H4440 to Vote. Allow Fossil Fuel Divestment
Saw this at the Sunrise Movement Boston events page (https://www.facebook.com/events/606019430292922/) while putting together this week's Energy (and Other) Events (http://hubevents.blogspot.com), my free weekly listing of events on those … [Read more...]
Nathan Phillips hunger strike, day 7 — please make the calls
Why does a man have to starve himself, just to get the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect the public in the most basic way? When you really think about it ... you wonder how it's ever come to this. As I mentioned nearly a week ago, … [Read more...]
What To Do After the Climate Strike
Fridays for the Future (https://www.fridaysforfuture.org) - the Friday Climate Strikes continue October 2 there will be a Global Solar Yatra (https://www.ggsy.in) with 1 million students in over 70 countries building their own solar lights … [Read more...]
1 Million Solar Lights for 1 Millions Students to Commemorate Gandhi’s 150th Birthday
On October 2, 2019 the Global Solar Yatra plans on organizing 1 million students in 70 countries to build 1 million solar study lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth in 70 countries around the world. More … [Read more...]
Grid-scale Battery: The Tesla System in Australia
Remember when Elon Musk offered to build a grid-scale battery for Southern Australia in "100 days or it’s free"? He made good on his bet, installing it on time for the cost of $66 million in December of 2017. According to a report on its … [Read more...]
Healing Earth (Through the Waters)
John Todd, author of Healing Earth: An Ecologist’s Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2019 ISBN 9781623172985) (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/healing-earth/), has spent his … [Read more...]
Warming Winters Pushing Boston Snow to Extremes
Through January 17, Logan Airport has its least snow on record dating back to 1936. The Boston Globe story covering this, unbelievably, didn't even mention of global warming. Here's our current list of winters with the first inch of snow … [Read more...]
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