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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – October 2022

October 1, 2022 By gmoke

**Conferences** Cambridge Science Festival Sunday, October 2 - Sunday, October 9 ———— HONK! Festival 2022 Friday, October 7, 3 PM – Sunday, October 9, 6 PM ———— Winter Is Coming: Europe’s Energy Crisis and What It Means … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, conferences, design, development, ecology, education, energy, environment, harvard, lectures, mit, renewables, sustainability

Solar Electric Power to the People

July 28, 2016 By gmoke

I like direct action, positive protest that has immediate, practical, social and economic use. That's why I say, Solar IS Civil Defense - light, phone, battery can be supplied by a few square inches of solar electric panel. The solar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, economics, emergency preparedness, energy, solar, sustainability

Can’t Solve Transportation Without Addressing Housing

April 27, 2016 By thegreenmiles

Charley already wrote up WBUR's transportation poll, but WBUR did a sidebar story on some non-highway transportation ideas. Reporter Steve Brown talked to State Sen. Tom McGee about his idea to relieve traffic & help people get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, environment, housing, smart-growth, transportation, urban-density, urban-sprawl

Boston Olympics as Development Stalking Horse?

January 19, 2015 By gmoke

Went to see Evan Falchuk talk at The Humanist Hub in Harvard Square on Sunday. Wanted to ask him about running a political campaign as a practical, grassroots organizing venture where you leave something active behind whether you win or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, Evan Falchuk, olympics, transportation

Toilets, Stoves, and Solar

January 11, 2014 By gmoke

Susan Murcott, Bob Lange, and Richard Komp are three grassroots environmental activists who are changing lives all around the world. Susan is a water researcher whose work on simple water filters has benefitted the lives of hundreds of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Africa, cooking, development, ecology, education, energy, environment, latin-america, sanitation, solar, stoves, water

Sustainable Development and Climate Change: 2 Free Online Courses

January 6, 2014 By gmoke

I'd like to participate in an ongoing on and off line brainstorm using Buckminster Fuller's World Game design criteria, "How can we make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate-change, development, ecology, education, energy, environment, Jeffrey Sachs, mit, MOOC, sustainability, world-bank

Solar Christmas Present

December 19, 2013 By gmoke

Wakawaka (http://us.waka-waka.com) makes a super efficient, sustainable, lightweight, sturdy and compact solar phone charger and lamp. It enables you to charge virtually any type of (smart)phone or small electronic device within just a few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: christmas, development, electricity, light, poverty, solar, syria

Outdated Liquor License Laws Are Strangling Our Downtowns

December 17, 2013 By thegreenmiles

Do we want to revitalize downtowns, or do we want to severely restrict people from buying wine with dinner? Thanks to our still-Puritanical liquor license laws here in Massachusetts, opening a new restaurant is a major financial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, growth, liquor licenses, smart-growth

Walczak Promises to Ramp Up Boston

June 18, 2013 By massmarrier

Bill Walczak’s true believers are just that. He’s one of the dozen running for mayor of Boston. His supporters (and he) point to his phenomenal, 4-decades-long record of making things happen and even doing the unlikely or seemingly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, campaign, Codman, development, dorchester, education, election, mayor, schools, Walczak

Tough Transit Talk

November 17, 2009 By massmarrier

"The days of highway expansion in Massachusetts are over," declared Aliosi. Now is the time to act and particularly to level the playing field by developing passenger rail and public transit. He ticked off such benefits as sparking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: activists, aloisi, deval-patrick, development, funding, highways, mass-transit, massachusetts, mbta, obama, rail, tim-murray

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