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Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – March 2022

February 27, 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: Africa, AI, Brookings, climate, conferences, ecology, energy, environment, events, greenhouse-gases, harvard, information, lectures, listings, mit, robotics

How to Counter Putin and Reduce Climate Change or Reversing the Energy Weapon

February 20, 2022 By gmoke

The impending (2/20/22) invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia is, at least in part, an energy war. Certainly, he is using the methane Russia sells to the EU and neighboring countries as a weapon. Russia supplies a third to a half … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cuba, ecology, energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency, environment, gas, infrastructure, methane, oil, pipelines, putin, renewables, russia, sustainability, Ukraine, war

Energy and Other Events Monthly

January 30, 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: columbia, ecology, energy, environment, harvard, mit, NESEA, net zero, remewables, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – January 19, 2022

January 19, 2022 By gmoke

Ithaca, NY raises $100 million to decarbonize its buildings https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/ithaca-new-york-raised-100m-climate-proof-buildings https://inhabitat.com/ithaca-raises-100m-to-decarbonize-buildings/ 18 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, building science, city planning, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, environment, sustainability

Global Carbon Budget 2021

January 11, 2022 By gmoke

Global Carbon Budget 2021 Abstract https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/ Full preprint:  https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/essd-2021-386.pdf 2020, Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) declined by 5.4 % … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carbon, climate, co2, energy, sustainabiity

Local, National, International Energy (and Other) Events Listings for January, 2022

January 6, 2022 By gmoke

These kinds of events 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 you access them. Anybody know of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biodiversity, climate, COVID, ecology, education, energy, ENSO, environment, gender equity, germany, harvard, Jewish, mit, pandemic, smart buildings, trees

Electric Appliances as Virtual Power Plants

January 5, 2022 By gmoke

“We’re thinking we can turn water heaters, refrigerators, thermostats, electric vehicles and batteries into virtual power plants [VPPs]” to help balance the grid's increasing clean electricity, Jigar Shah, director of the DOE Loan Programs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: DER, doe, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, sustainability, VPP

Old Solar: Equal Rights to the Sun

December 23, 2021 By gmoke

“Produced by Bonnie Symansky, this video, Equal Rights to the Sun (1979) documents citizen [led] solar energy projects organized in the Boston area by the Urban Solar Energy Association (USEA - founded by Barbara Brandt [Susan Baldwin, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-activism, do it yourself, energy, environment, history, renewables, solar, solar-energy, sustainability

City Agriculture – November 14, 2021

November 14, 2021 By gmoke

Living the Noom - near net zero energy buildings with vertical forests https://www.yankodesign.com/2021/07/22/breathtaking-residential-building-in-mexico-comes-with-its-own-vertical-forest-and-solar-panels-on-its-terrace/ El Terreno - a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 09-boston-elections, agriculture, climate, ecology, energy, environment, food, gardening, sustainability

Energy Event: MIT Materials Day Symposium: Role of Materials in Addressing Climate Change & Sustainability

October 8, 2021 By gmoke

These kinds of events 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. The local … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: calendar, climate, education, energy, environment, events, materials, materialsscience, mit, sustainability

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Thank you to Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 for hosting our House Labor and Workforce Development Committee this week to learn more about registered apprenticeships programs. Such an impressive facility and these apprenticeships offer a great career pathway! @SMWLU17 #mapoli

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#ZeroCarbon4All #mapoli

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.@MayorWu’s announcement of $10 million invested in deep energy retrofits in Boston is a resounding endorsement of efforts to make our building stock #ZeroCarbon4All. Now, these efforts must be expanded statewide.🌎
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