Living the Noom - near net zero energy buildings with vertical forests https://www.yankodesign.com/2021/07/22/breathtaking-residential-building-in-mexico-comes-with-its-own-vertical-forest-and-solar-panels-on-its-terrace/ El Terreno - a … [Read more...]
Energy Event: MIT Materials Day Symposium: Role of Materials in Addressing Climate Change & Sustainability
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 people access them. The local … [Read more...]
“Rejected Energy” and Heat Mapping the EU
USAmerica generates around 100 quadrillion BTUs per year, more or less, and has plateaued at that level since 2000. However, about 67% of the energy produced is characterized as “rejected energy,” energy that does no useful work, according … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – August 26, 2021
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy - Report shows meeting Paris climate goals would add trillions of dollars in economic … [Read more...]
Carbon Coin
from Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Page 294: They [a consortium of all the big central banks, with open access for more central banks to join] would issue together a single new currency, coordinated through the BIS … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – July 8, 2021
Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html NB: Geotherapy can work from flower pot on a windowsill scale to thousands of hectares and should be part of the thinking … [Read more...]
A Speech from Her Speeches Greta Thunberg Never Made
I recently read No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg (NY: Penguin Books, 2018, 2019 ISBN 9780143133568), a slim book of her speeches since she started her Friday School Strike, "that idea was inspired by the Parkland … [Read more...]
East Boston vs. the dumb, dangerous, expensive, sub-standard substation
One of the things you keep seeing on the enviro/climate beat is powerful entities' insistence on doing things a dumb old harmful way, when there's a cheaper healthier easier alternative, right at hand. We've got the ongoing, bewildering … [Read more...]
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs or How to Talk about Climate
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm) says wind turbine service technician jobs should grow 61% over the next decade, the #1 fastest growing job for the next decade. Solar photovoltaic [PV] installer* … [Read more...]
“Who’s Delaying Climate Action in Massachusetts?”
A new report from Brown University* proves what we already knew: Climate action in Massachusetts is bought off and delayed by well-heeled special interest lobbies. This is in spite of overwhelming public support in polls, and a display of … [Read more...]
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