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...]
Zero Net Energy – August 26, 2021
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy - Report shows meeting Paris climate goals would add trillions of dollars in economic … [Read more...]
Carbon Coin
from Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Page 294: They [a consortium of all the big central banks, with open access for more central banks to join] would issue together a single new currency, coordinated through the BIS … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – August 10, 2021
Positive net energy campus for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania https://inhabitat.com/phipps-conservatory-and-botanical-gardens-leeds-the-way-in-green-design/ Amsterdam and Paris exchange on urban … [Read more...]
To Catch the Sun: DIY Solar Handbook
To Catch the Sun (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonnyg/to-catch-the-sun) is a book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to harness their own solar energy, with the nitty-gritty details so you can do it too! Learn … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – July 8, 2021
Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html NB: Geotherapy can work from flower pot on a windowsill scale to thousands of hectares and should be part of the thinking … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – June 24, 2021
Farming communities - a Dutch model for national agriculture https://www.farmingcommunities.org/ AlphaGarden - can a robot learn how to … [Read more...]
A Speech from Her Speeches Greta Thunberg Never Made
I recently read No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg (NY: Penguin Books, 2018, 2019 ISBN 9780143133568), a slim book of her speeches since she started her Friday School Strike, "that idea was inspired by the Parkland … [Read more...]
Solar Public Service Announcements
The first solar video I produced was for the Urban Solar Energy Association [USEA] back in the early 1980s. One of the 10 second public service announcements was “A south-facing window is already a solar collector. Learn how to use it.” … [Read more...]
Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please
Geotherapy not geoengineering, please. "Geotherapy refers to the process of restoring the earth’s health by strengthening natural biogeochemical and physiological mechanisms that regulate the earth’s planetary life support systems and … [Read more...]
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