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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs or How to Talk about Climate

January 22, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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

Solar Decathlon Webinars

January 15, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: buildings, climate, DIY, doe, ecology, education, energy, environment, renewables, solar, sustainability, technology, webinars

Zero Net Energy – August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Santa Monica civic building will produce net positive energy and going for full Living Building challenge … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, climate, construction, ecology, energy, environment, Green New Deal, solar

What I Read in the Green New Deal for Public Housing Bill

December 22, 2019 By gmoke 1 Comment

The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act (these comments come from the draft https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/OCASNY_053_xml.pdf but the actual bill has now been filed at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: architecture, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, environment, green-jobs, GreenNewDeal, net zero energy, public-housing, renewables, solar, sustainability

Agrophotovoltaics, Agriphotovoltaics, Solar Sharing

September 17, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has been doing “agrophotovoltaics” studies for the last few years, the concept of producing both crops and solar power on the same land. Their 2018 study results are available here: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, ecology, energy, environment, farming, solar, sustainability

1 Million Solar Lights for 1 Millions Students to Commemorate Gandhi’s 150th Birthday

August 24, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

On October 2, 2019 the Global Solar Yatra plans on organizing 1 million students in 70 countries to build 1 million solar study lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth in 70 countries around the world. More … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civil-defense, climate-change, ecology, emergency preparedness, energy, environment, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for the Future, gandhi, Gandhian economics, nonviolence, renewables, solar

MIT Energy Hackathon: Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes

October 31, 2017 By gmoke Leave a Comment

The content committee for the MIT Energy Hackathon, November 3-5, has accepted my challenge on "Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes.” With luck, an extremely knowledgeable and expert team of MIT and other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: disaster, electricity, energy, hackathon, mit, renewables, solar, wind

Crowd Funding an Emergency Solar Electric Grid for Puerto Rico and Other Islands

September 23, 2017 By gmoke 2 Comments

Solar lights and cell phone chargers are now $1or less production costs and selling around the world for $5 or less retail. Add bicycle generators and you have independent indigenous emergency power now, day or night. AA battery to car … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: ecology, energy, environment, hurricane relief, islands, puerto-rico, solar, sustainability

Solar Electric Power to the People

July 28, 2016 By gmoke Leave a Comment

I like direct action, positive protest that has immediate, practical, social and economic use. That's why I say, Solar IS Civil Defense - light, phone, battery can be supplied by a few square inches of solar electric panel. The solar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: development, economics, emergency preparedness, energy, solar, sustainability

Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition

January 9, 2016 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: buildings, cities, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, engineering, environment, exergy, solar

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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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