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...]
“Net zero is not a practical goal in New England”
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...]
Caribbean Solar Sailboat Project
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...]
Toilets, Stoves, and Solar
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...]
Sustainable Development and Climate Change: 2 Free Online Courses
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...]
Net Zero and Beyond
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...]
Resilience and Climate Change
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...]
Reprogramming the City
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...]
Sierra Club Green Schools in Massachusetts
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...]
Canal Restorer to River Restorer?
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...]
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