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...]
Environmental Law in the Trump Administration
Went to Harvard Law school today, January 30, 2017, to hear Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus explain what they think will happen to environmental law in the Trump administration. I got there about 10 minutes before the scheduled … [Read more...]
New Report Highlights Harvard’s Dirty Energy Ties
A new report from the Energy & Policy Institute warns many of America's universities continue to be hooked on dirty energy funding, with Harvard University highlighted as one of the top offenders: Universities and professors, funded by … [Read more...]
Why I’m Banned from Harvard, and Why I’m Coming Back Anyway
I am banned from Harvard University. I was banned from Harvard University on Friday, May 30th, 2014 after I stood in front of the stage where President Drew Faust was about to speak to an audience of several hundred Harvard alumni. Along … [Read more...]
Harvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project
Boston, MA, April 2, 2015--Helping to kick off Harvard’s first annual “Climate Week,” centenarian F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., and 97-year-old Del Markoff, Harvard Business School’s oldest living alumni, are calling on the school’s alumni, … [Read more...]
Energiewende: Germany’s Energy Transition
Tuesday, March 31 I saw Andreas Kraemer, International Institute for Advanced Sustainability in Pottsdam, founder of the Ecological Institute of Berlin, and currently associated with Duke University, speak at both Harvard and MIT. His … [Read more...]
Mayday PAC a friendly critique
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3X2eDCmPRY Mayday PAC is a SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs. It has already raised 5 million dollars and plans on picking 5 congressional districts in which to support pro campaign finance reform … [Read more...]
At the Harvard Divest Rally
Went to the Harvard Divest rally this morning which took place in front of Massachusetts Hall where the President, Provost, Treasurer, and Vice Presidents of the University have offices. There was a constant crowd of about 100 people coming … [Read more...]
What I Do and Why I Do It
I publish a weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events at the colleges, universities, and in the community around Cambridge, MA (http://hubevents.blogspot.com) and have been doing it consistently since the end of January, 2010 … [Read more...]
The Charter Waiting List Game
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's some actual reporting from the Boston Globe! Today's above-the-fold expose by James Vaznis shines some much needed light on one of the worst kept secrets in charter-land: that incredible, ever expanding … [Read more...]