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City Agriculture – July 31, 2022

July 31, 2022 By gmoke

The French Parliament recently approved a new law requiring all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants or solar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cityplanning, climate, ecology, energy, environment, farming, food, gardening, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – August 2022

July 30, 2022 By gmoke

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - August 2022 **Index** **Conferences** Decolonizing and Regrowing Our Food Systems Friday, August 5 - Sunday, August 7 —— TEDxBoston Traction Monday August 15 —— **Lecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, boston, climate, ecology, education, energy, environment, events, learning, renewables, sustainability

Playing with Electric Trains as a Climate Tactic

July 3, 2022 By gmoke

From Edwin Black's book, Internal Combustion, about the Milwaukee Road, an electric rail system: "Sometimes electrified railways seemed to defy the laws of perpetual motion. For example, when the brakes were applied or the train traveled … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cars, ecology, energy, environment, freight, railroads, regenerative braking, sustainability, transportation, trucks

Energy (and Other) Events – July 2022

July 1, 2022 By gmoke

**Index** **Lecture Series** Announcing our Flourish Fiction Summer Workshop Series 2022! Prompt Generation Workshop – July 6, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Infinite Hope: Imagining a Better World – July 20, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Open Feedback … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, economics, eduction, energy, environment, events, learning, listings, politics, renewables, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events – June 2022

May 31, 2022 By gmoke

**Index** **Conferences** Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum Symposium Thursday, June 2 - June 3 MA Solidarity Economy / Worker Co-op Festival & Gathering Saturday & Sunday, June 4-5 The Pulitzer Center's 2022 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Brookings Institution, climate, ecology, education, energy, environment, events, mit, sustainability

City Agriculture – May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022 By gmoke

Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard/ Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience How we might build a food utopia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cities, city planning, ecology, environment, food, gardening, sustainability

Energy (and Other) Events – May 2022

May 1, 2022 By gmoke

——— Index ——— —————— Conferences —————— Tuesday, May 3 Graduate workshop: Data-driven environmental economics research from the EPA Thursday, June 2 - June 3 Numbers and Nature: Mitchell J. Feigenbaum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, energy, environment, events, harvard, listings, mit, sustainability, transportation

Mr Franklin’s Folks

April 21, 2022 By gmoke

Preface: I originally wrote this a couple of decades ago, based upon my experiences working with a traveling energy show in the 1970s and 1980s and my own experiments with public displays of renewable energy at farmers’ markets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate resiliency, ecology, emergency preparedness, environment, farmers'markets, positive protest, renewables, solar, sustainability

Planning for Extreme Heat: NY, Phoenix, California, and Beyond

April 14, 2022 By gmoke

Boston University organized a talk on how Phoenix, New York, and the State of California are planning for extreme heat the other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: city planning, climate resilience, climate-energy-politics, ecology, emergency preparedness, energy, environment, heatwave, sustainability, trees, urban planning

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

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