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...]
Energy (and Other) Events Monthly – April 2022
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...]
Zero Net Energy – March 31, 2022
Treehouse with "green walls, facades and rooftops, plus water features, natural light, and ventilation strategies to green the traditional office building,” winning an award from the World Green Building … [Read more...]
How to Counter Putin and Reduce Climate Change or Reversing the Energy Weapon
The impending (2/20/22) invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia is, at least in part, an energy war. Certainly, he is using the methane Russia sells to the EU and neighboring countries as a weapon. Russia supplies a third to a half … [Read more...]
Old Solar: Equal Rights to the Sun
“Produced by Bonnie Symansky, this video, Equal Rights to the Sun (1979) documents citizen [led] solar energy projects organized in the Boston area by the Urban Solar Energy Association (USEA - founded by Barbara Brandt [Susan Baldwin, … [Read more...]
To Catch the Sun: DIY Solar Handbook
To Catch the Sun (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonnyg/to-catch-the-sun) is a book of inspiring stories of communities coming together to harness their own solar energy, with the nitty-gritty details so you can do it too! Learn … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – March 24, 2021
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...]
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs or How to Talk about Climate
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...]
Solar Decathlon Webinars
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition, comprising 10 contests, that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. It’s been going on … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – December 27, 2020
"Second + Delaware is the largest Passive House building in the world, which means that it uses 80-90% less energy than conventional buildings” Opening in October in Kansas City, … [Read more...]