From Edwin Black's book, Internal Combustion, about the Milwaukee Road, an electric rail system: "Sometimes electrified railways seemed to defy the laws of perpetual motion. For example, when the brakes were applied or the train traveled … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – July 2022
**Index** **Lecture Series** Announcing our Flourish Fiction Summer Workshop Series 2022! Prompt Generation Workshop – July 6, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Infinite Hope: Imagining a Better World – July 20, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Open Feedback … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – June 2022
**Index** **Conferences** Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Symposium Thursday, June 2 - June 3 MA Solidarity Economy / Worker Co-op Festival & Gathering Saturday & Sunday, June 4-5 The Pulitzer Center's 2022 … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 5, 2022
Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard/ Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience How we might build a food utopia … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events – May 2022
——— 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...]
Mr Franklin’s Folks
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...]
Planning for Extreme Heat: NY, Phoenix, California, and Beyond
Boston University organized a talk on how Phoenix, New York, and the State of California are planning for extreme heat the other … [Read more...]
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – April 2022
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...]
Zero Net Energy – March 31, 2022
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...]
A Pattern Language of Work: Remembering Christopher Alexander
I just learned that Christopher Alexander, the principal writer and force behind A Pattern Language, died on March 17. This is to remember him, someone who made me see with a new focus. A Pattern Language of Work earlier version … [Read more...]
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