The content committee for the MIT Energy Hackathon, November 3-5, has accepted my challenge on "Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes.” With luck, an extremely knowledgeable and expert team of MIT and other … [Read more...]
Crowd Funding an Emergency Solar Electric Grid for Puerto Rico and Other Islands
Solar lights and cell phone chargers are now $1or less production costs and selling around the world for $5 or less retail. Add bicycle generators and you have independent indigenous emergency power now, day or night. AA battery to car … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – April 21, 2017
An apartment filled with plants http://modernfarmer.com/2016/07/summer-rayne-oakes/ Daytonian in Manhattan - "The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.” Can’t have a viable … [Read more...]
Tell DPU to Say No to Eversource’s Profit-Driven Rate Hikes
Eversource is asking to raise our electric rates by $96 million next year and an additional $50 million annually for the next four years. As the Department of Public Utilities public notice details, Boston area customers would see an … [Read more...]
Herald Still Shilling for Fracked Gas Pipeline Subsidies
Even though there's absolutely no evidence they're needed, some people just don't know how to quit shilling for new or expanded fracked gas pipelines. This week in the Boston Herald, Republican consultant and columnist Holly Robichaud once … [Read more...]
McKinsey and Company Talks Energy and Climate at MIT
On November 21, 2016 Scott Nyquist of McKinsey & Company (http://www.mckinsey.com) spoke to the public at MIT's Sloan School. Over the next 20 years, there are projections for 80% more demand on resources as a result of growing … [Read more...]
Solar Electric Power to the People
I like direct action, positive protest that has immediate, practical, social and economic use. That's why I say, Solar IS Civil Defense - light, phone, battery can be supplied by a few square inches of solar electric panel. The solar … [Read more...]
11 Reasons We Must Say No to New Fracked Gas Infrastructure
With the Massachusetts legislature preparing to take up comprehensive energy legislation, Wall Street-controlled energy companies are pushing hard to include a pipeline tax, allowing them to charge all ratepayers a fee to build new & … [Read more...]
Energy Model of Boston
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46GkHSYvYE The Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has built a model which estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year, nearly 100,000 … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition
Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]
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