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Methane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring

March 10, 2014 By gmoke

HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring project in Cambridge and Somerville. Boston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, bu, cambridge, climate-change, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, greenhouse-gases, heat, heet, massachusetts, methane, Nathan Phillips, natural-gas, somerville

“Net zero is not a practical goal in New England”

February 26, 2014 By gmoke

Peter Wilson [in a Cambridgewickedlocal with news from the Chronicle and Tab LtE http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140220/NEWS/140229717/2014/OPINION] wrote that "Net zero is not a practical goal in New England" and that may or may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, ecology, energy, environment, net zero, pollution, waste

Caribbean Solar Sailboat Project

January 18, 2014 By gmoke

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sailing-for-solar-bringing-workshops-to-caribbean-communities Help empower coastal Caribbean communities with a solar sailboat that will provide workshops and materials for solar electric modules, solar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Caribbean, ecology, education, electricity, energy, fundraising, global-warming-environment, sailboats, solar

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

Net Zero and Beyond

November 19, 2013 By gmoke

Cambridge, MA has been debating a net zero energy and/or emissions standard (http://www.netzerocambridge.org) for new buildings over 25,000 square feet since the Spring of 2013, partially because of an ecodistrict plan with MIT and others … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cities, climate-change, district heating, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, net zero, planning, renewables, solar

Resilience and Climate Change

September 29, 2013 By gmoke

Recently, I've noticed there has been a shift from talking about mitigation to adaptation to resilience when dealing with climate change. From my perspective, this is not a bad development as resilience focuses on practical preparedness for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adaptation, boston, climate-change, ecology, energy, environment, mitigation

Reprogramming the City

September 22, 2013 By gmoke

There's a great exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects down by South Station called "Reprogramming the City" (http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/reprogramming-the-city/). It is all about small but significant design tweaks for urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, boston, cities, design, ecology, environment

Sierra Club Green Schools in Massachusetts

September 4, 2013 By gmoke

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/complete-rankings.aspx 7 of the 162 Sierra Club "Green Schools" were in MA, in order of standing: Harvard 16 UMass Amherst 27 BU 88 Hampshire 89 Mount Holyoke 124 Worcester … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: college, ecology, energy, sierra-club, sustainability, university

Canal Restorer to River Restorer?

August 20, 2013 By gmoke

This greenhouse at the former historic Fisherville Mill in South Grafton, Massachusetts, sits on the banks of a canal by the Blackstone River. It is cleaning stormwater runoff and water contaminated by #6 fuel oil, also known as Bunker C … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Blackstone River, canals, ecological design, ecology, environment, industrial history, john-todd, pollution, reclamation, water, water-power

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