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Reprogramming the City
There’s a great exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects down by South Station called “Reprogramming the City” (http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/reprogramming-the-city/). It is all about small but...
View ArticleCities Scale: Boston Living with Water
Cities scale is where real climate change adaptation is taking place, now, whether or not we have national or international agreements on greenhouse gases. Cities and regions have to deal with weather...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture
Here’s the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association’s Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban...
View ArticleGetting to Net Zero: Cambridge, MA
For the past year, the Cambridge, MA city government has had a Getting to Net Zero Task Force studying the implications of a net zero energy building requirement. They finished the draft report on...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – May 14, 2018
Design for World’s First Energy Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle https://snohetta.com/projects/366-svart...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – July 23, 2019
Zero-energy demonstration project in Beijing made from pre-fab timber components https://www.archdaily.com/907507/xuhui-demonstrative-project-sup-atelier...
View ArticleWhat I Read in the Green New Deal for Public Housing Bill
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...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – August 11, 2020
Santa Monica civic building will produce net positive energy and going for full Living Building challenge certification https://fisherpartners.net/projects/city-of-santa-monica-city-services-building/...
View ArticleToward Net Zero Energy: Tiny Houses on Up
The Laney College Carpentry Department in Oakland, California built a net zero tiny house, the Wedge, in 2016 for the SMUD Net Zero Tiny House Competition https://youtu.be/PyxJQynaC_c That tiny house...
View ArticleCity Agriculture – March 7, 2021
Urban Agriculture Blog from Agritecture https://www.agritecture.com/blog-feed The 20 best green alleys of Montreal (en française, in French)...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – August 26, 2021
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy – Report shows meeting Paris climate goals would add trillions of dollars in economic growth...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – January 19, 2022
Ithaca, NY raises $100 million to decarbonize its buildings https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/ithaca-new-york-raised-100m-climate-proof-buildings...
View ArticleA Pattern Language of Work: Remembering Christopher Alexander
I just learned that Christopher Alexander, the principal writer and force behind A Pattern Language, died on March 17. This is to remember him, someone who made me see with a new focus. A Pattern...
View ArticleZero Net Energy – October 20, 2022
An energy rule of thumb is one third of energy goes to buildings, one third goes to industry, one third goes to transportation. The technology is certainly available to reduce the energy that goes to...
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