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Energy (and Other) Events – May 2022

May 1, 2022 By gmoke

——— Index ——— —————— Conferences —————— Tuesday, May 3 Graduate workshop: Data-driven environmental economics research from the EPA Thursday, June 2 - June 3 Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, energy, environment, events, harvard, listings, mit, sustainability, transportation

Mr Franklin’s Folks

April 21, 2022 By gmoke

Preface: I originally wrote this a couple of decades ago, based upon my experiences working with a traveling energy show in the 1970s and 1980s and my own experiments with public displays of renewable energy at farmers’ markets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate resiliency, ecology, emergency preparedness, environment, farmers'markets, positive protest, renewables, solar, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – April 2022

April 3, 2022 By gmoke

These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, ecology, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, environment, events, listings, renewables, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – March 31, 2022

March 31, 2022 By gmoke

Treehouse with "green walls, facades and rooftops, plus water features, natural light, and ventilation strategies to green the traditional office building,” winning an award from the World Green Building … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, energy, environment, housing, net zero, net zero emissions, net zero energy, real-estate, renewables, solar, sustainability

Climate Deadlines

March 11, 2022 By gmoke

According to this carbon countdown clock (https://www.mcc-berlin.net/fileadmin/data/clock/carbon_clock.htm), at the current rate (1,337 tonnes per second or 42.2 gigatonnes [Gt] per year), the most CO2 we can emit to stay below 1.5ºC rise … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: backcasting, carbon budget, carbon-dioxide, climate, forecasting, futorology, greenhouse-gases, planning, r-buckminster-fuller, world-game

Interface: From Living Zero to Climate Take Back

March 1, 2022 By gmoke

I met Ray Anderson in 1996 at a conference about The Natural Step (https://thenaturalstep.org), an environmental action framework from Sweden. He had founded Interface (http://www.interface.com/US/en-US/homepage), a carpet tile … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: business, climate, ecology, energy, environment, Interface, net zero emissions, net zero energy, progressive-business-leaders-sustainability, Ray Anderson, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – March 2022

February 27, 2022 By gmoke

These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Africa, AI, Brookings, climate, conferences, ecology, energy, environment, events, greenhouse-gases, harvard, information, lectures, listings, mit, robotics

Science Fiction Futures Now at Boskone 59

February 8, 2022 By gmoke

Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England. Boskone is an entirely fan volunteers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: BOSKONE, climate, environment, fandom, fantasy, horror, Mars, science fiction, sustainability, terraforming

Global Carbon Budget 2021

January 11, 2022 By gmoke

Global Carbon Budget 2021 Abstract https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/ Full preprint:  https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/essd-2021-386.pdf 2020, Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) declined by 5.4 % … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carbon, climate, co2, energy, sustainabiity

Local, National, International Energy (and Other) Events Listings for January, 2022

January 6, 2022 By gmoke

These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts.  Would be good to have a place that helped you access them. Anybody know of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biodiversity, climate, COVID, ecology, education, energy, ENSO, environment, gender equity, germany, harvard, Jewish, mit, pandemic, smart buildings, trees

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