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Planning the Energy Transition

December 23, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve run across what might be a few really useful reports on the energy transition. The Lancet is doing an annual climate countdown report to monitor our progress. Here is this year’s edition: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, co2, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, greenhouse-gases, infrastructure, sustainability

Climate resiliency: One way or the other, this is going to be expensive.

March 4, 2018 By Charley on the MTA 6 Comments

As Massachusetts picks up after another storm that created "historic" coastal flooding, we have to reflect on what's in store. [No, we don't necessarily know that climate change "caused" any particular weather event; but let's not be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: climate resiliency, climate-change, infrastructure

Not so fast, Olympics boosters

January 20, 2015 By massmarrier 36 Comments

It’s not showtime yet, but auditions are underway for the big stage of the 2024 Summer Games here in our wee burg of Boston. Somehow Boston edged our the U.S. competition to become the USOC pick. Now of course, it will go up against … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, infrastructure, IOC, Leibowitz, mayor, NoBostonOlympics, olympics, Olympics 2024, public-funding, referendum, USOC, walsh

Helping to fix our infrastructure problems: my Globe op-ed

July 12, 2012 By Steve 12 Comments

Dear BMG'ers, I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed that appears in today's Boston Globe. It highlights our infrastructure and transportation crisis and offers an approach that will not only fund long-overdue investments, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democrats, economy, infrastructure, ma-gov, massachusetts, mbcr, mbta, sales-tax, small-business, steve-grossman, transportation

Khazei Looks to Popular Uprising

November 1, 2011 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

Speaking with us today at Left Ahead, Alan Khazei remains astonishingly energized and optimistic. He is convinced that as a nation we shall find our way out of the economic and political messes we are in today. He does think that doing so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alan, alan-khazei, democratic-party, infrastructure, new-deal, pop, recession, scott-brown, us-senate

Has the GOP become the party of Cain?

January 17, 2011 By AmberPaw 6 Comments

Today's GOP would have us believe that someone somewhere will volunteer to feed the hungry, care for the sick, and ensure jobs for our children and their future.  This is magical thinking, and in fact the reason for the decline of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cain, employment, gop, government, infrastructure, krugman, social-security

URGENT – BOIL WATER IN MWRA COMMUNITIES

May 1, 2010 By AmberPaw 45 Comments

MAJOR water pipe break in Weston leads to boil water order in EVERY MWRA Community east of Weston which includes: IF YOUR TOWN IS ON THIS LIST YOUR WATER IS NOT SAFE TO DRINK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Arlington, Lexington Belmont Boston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boil-water-order, emergency, infrastructure, water-pipe-break

Thinking Big During Big Disasters…

April 5, 2010 By Harmony Blakeway 10 Comments

Do you know of friends, neighbors, and elected officials working on these types of plans? Drop me a note at harmony@realclout.org, write us a tweet, or leave a comment on our Facebook page to share! Check out our latest newsletter for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, infrastructure, massachusetts, public-investment, public-structures, systems-thinking

Government for the people, and by the people would be

March 6, 2010 By AmberPaw 3 Comments

In a healthy representative democracy, the Governor and every legislator would  understand that the role of government is to: 1.  Provide common infrastructure* by spreading the costs across society in a fair manner; 2. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: governor, infrastructure, representative-democracy

Trains, not planes, for Lynn.

December 29, 2009 By Avi Green 33 Comments

Winning government funding for projects and jobs in Massachusetts is a proper goal for any of our US Senators and members of Congress. Yet it is not enough that projects simply be located here to merit their support. Projects should create … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: economy, infrastructure, jobs, stimulus

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The fact that we are about to be hit with a tidal wave of voter suppression legislation by Republican legislatures throughout the country is the most under reported story right now. The media is unequipped to cover this in clear moral terms and instead prefers to both sides it.

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Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

The conversation between @drvolts and @chrislhayes is accessible to those who know little about the power system, and it's smart, funny and quite profound. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powering-the-grid-with-david-roberts/id1382983397?i=1000510291170

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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