The Current Cost of Carbon In April of 2015 at a forum on the British Columbia carbon tax at MIT, I heard Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada (http://cleanenergycanada.org) say if you add up the GDP of all the individual countries which … [Read more...]
Massachusetts A Model for Obama’s Clean Power Plan
As a nation, we have a choice: Do we want to keep pumping dangerous carbon pollution into the air, or do we want to pump new life into our economy, creating clean energy jobs and saving families money on their electricity bills? We know … [Read more...]
Passing gas, killing trees and YOUR LAWN OMG
Talk about the hyper-local effects of fossil fuels: Gas leaks kill trees, create ozone, and -- you may want to sit down before reading this -- brown your lawn*: Thousands of area gas leaks poison environment, kill trees - [News - Milford … [Read more...]
Some Top MA Companies MIA on Climate Action Suport Letter
Dozens of governors, including Charlie Baker, are getting letters from the business community today in a show of support for President Obama's limits on carbon pollution from power plants: In an unprecedented show of business support for … [Read more...]
Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation
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...]
Grumpy Old Globe Columnist Lectures Climate Activists
Hey, you kids! Pull up your pants and turn down that loud music! An old lawyer is here to condescendingly tell you how to stop with your popular, effective actions against climate change, and instead take up his unpopular niche solution … [Read more...]
Why I’m Banned from Harvard, and Why I’m Coming Back Anyway
I am banned from Harvard University. I was banned from Harvard University on Friday, May 30th, 2014 after I stood in front of the stage where President Drew Faust was about to speak to an audience of several hundred Harvard alumni. Along … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project
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...]
Energiewende: Germany’s Energy Transition
Tuesday, March 31 I saw Andreas Kraemer, International Institute for Advanced Sustainability in Pottsdam, founder of the Ecological Institute of Berlin, and currently associated with Duke University, speak at both Harvard and MIT. His … [Read more...]
Cities Scale: Boston Living with Water
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...]
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