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Insulate Britain Was a Bargain

September 18, 2022 By gmoke

Insulate Britain (https://insulatebritain.com) is an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion which demanded that the British government fund insulation for all public housing by 2025, and, by the end of 2021, the government must create a plan to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, DIY, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, heet, housing, insulate, retrofit, sustainability, UK

Zero Net Energy – August 2022

August 18, 2022 By gmoke

Net zero energy city planned for Egypt, with plans to produce more energy AND food than it consumes https://urb.ae/projects/nexgensustainablecity/ https://inhabitat.com/first-climate-positive-net-zero-city-in-the-world/ Hotels With … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: city planing, climate, climate resilience, ecology, efficiency, energy, net zero emissions, net zero energy, renewables, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – April 2022

April 3, 2022 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, ecology, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, environment, events, listings, renewables, sustainability

“Rejected Energy” and Heat Mapping the EU

September 6, 2021 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: city planning, climate, district heating, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, EU, HVAC, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – March 24, 2021

March 24, 2021 By gmoke

Making a wooden solar insolation visualization https://youtu.be/PvcvY4ToFaQ https://www.makingdatatangible.com/solar/ - program to help you make your own https://pysolar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - a collection of Python libraries for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: building codes, buildings, construction, ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, housing, renewables, solar, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – December 27, 2020

December 27, 2020 By gmoke

"Second + Delaware is the largest Passive House building in the world, which means that it uses 80-90% less energy than conventional buildings” Opening in October in Kansas City, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, conservation, efficiency, energy, environment, renewables, sustainability

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

Massachusetts Clean Energy Economy

August 29, 2012 By gmoke

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has released their 2012 Massachusetts Clean Industry Report (http://www.masscec.com/index.cfm/cdid/13913/pid/11150) There are 4,995 clean energy firms and 71,523 clean energy jobs in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, efficiency, employment, energy, massachusetts, solar, wind

2009 Energy Use in the USA

April 13, 2011 By gmoke

Energy consumption from 2008 to 2009 declined slightly, as did our efficiency: http://www.dailykos.com/story/... The estimated U.S. energy use in 2008 equaled 99.2 quadrillion BTUs ("quads"), down from 101.5 quadrillion BTUs in 2007.... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, efficiency, electricity, energy, environment, national

Zero Net Energy House Winner Is Positive Net Energy House

May 11, 2010 By gmoke

Tina Clarke, a Transitions Town trainer, and her husband, Doug Stephens, moved into their new home in December 2008 and will be using it in conjunction with Greenfield Community College and Franklin Regional Technical High School to educate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, efficiency, energy, environment, massachusetts, renewables, zero-emissions

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