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A Speech from Her Speeches Greta Thunberg Never Made

May 30, 2021 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: carbon, climate, ecology, energy, environment, Fridays for the Future, future, Greta Thunberg, sustainability

Solar Public Service Announcements

April 22, 2021 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, economics, education, energy, environment, media, reslience, solar, sustainability

Building Soil for Earth Week

April 17, 2021 By gmoke

Pleistocene Park Discussion with Manager, Nikita Zimov Sunday, April 18, 9 - 10:30 AM ET (GMT-4) Zoom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, earth-day, ecology, economics, environment, farming, food, soil, sustainability

Geotherapy Not Geoengineering, Please

March 30, 2021 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, climate-change, conservation, ecology, energy, environment, food, gardening, geoengineering, geotherapy, 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

City Agriculture – March 7, 2021

March 7, 2021 By gmoke

Urban Agriculture Blog from Agritecture https://www.agritecture.com/blog-feed The 20 best green alleys of Montreal (en française, in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, architecture, ecology, energy, environment, food, gardening, sustainability, urban planning

Insight from Gina McCarthy

February 14, 2021 By gmoke

After the Obama Presidency, Gina McCarthy, the former Administrator of the EPA, landed at Harvard as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics and ran a Tuesday afternoon study group, as IOP Fellows do. Since I have way too much time on my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: biden, bureaucracy, ecology, environment, epa, Gina McCarthy, harvard, motivation, obama, organization, sustainability, washington-dc

East Boston vs. the dumb, dangerous, expensive, sub-standard substation

February 5, 2021 By Charley on the MTA

One of the things you keep seeing on the enviro/climate beat is powerful entities' insistence on doing things a dumb old harmful way, when there's a cheaper healthier easier alternative, right at hand. We've got the ongoing, bewildering … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: chelsea, clean-energy, climate, East Boston substation, east-boston, environment, environmental-justice

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs or How to Talk about Climate

January 22, 2021 By gmoke

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm) says wind turbine service technician jobs should grow 61% over the next decade, the #1 fastest growing job for the next decade. Solar photovoltaic [PV] installer* … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate, ecology, economics, energy, environment, jobs, renewables, solar, sustainability, wind

“Who’s Delaying Climate Action in Massachusetts?”

January 22, 2021 By Charley on the MTA

A new report from Brown University* proves what we already knew: Climate action in Massachusetts is bought off and delayed by well-heeled special interest lobbies. This is in spite of overwhelming public support in polls, and a display of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: clean-energy, climate, decker, deleo, downing, environment, garballey, mariano, mike-barrett, spilka

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