Climate Change and Geotherapy: Two Conferences, Two Workshops, and Another...
I've been going to public lectures on climate change at Harvard, MIT, and other places since at least 1980. Lately I've been thinking that I have yet to hear an ecologist talk about the subject. I've...
View ArticleGMO Labeling: House Speaker Doesn't Play Softball and Nor Should We
Softball advocacy for GMO labeling is the kind of boneheaded strategy that several of us were invited to play this morning. We must play hardball, instead. We are up against food manufacturers who...
View ArticlePrimary Statements
My Green-Rainbow Party voter registration is a stronger statement on the issues that I care about than are the votes that I cast for various candidates. My Green-Rainbow Party affiliation is a public...
View ArticleVoting for Republican Lite?
The lead article on Bluemassgroup, the Democratic Party blog, is telling everyone to get behind Martha Coakley for Governor. It is entitled "Coakley for Governor: The Small Differences That Matter."It...
View ArticleCarbon Farming: Organic Agriculture Saves the World [Geotherapy]
Something is happening in the organic farming community. This year the Northeast Organic Farming Association has been exploring carbon farming, "regenerative organic agricultural techniques for...
View ArticleRestoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming
Just wanted to make sure people know about this upcoming conference which may be the start of something really exciting. I know from my monitoring of Harvard, MIT, and other universities that...
View ArticleGreen-Rainbow Party and Green Party highlights from Election Day 2014
Nationally, the Green Party won some important victories and took some small steps forward. Most importantly, the Green mayor of Richmond, CA, Gayle McLaughlin, won her bid for City Council despite...
View ArticleGreen-Rainbow Party optimistic about future
Nice write up of yesterday's Green-Rainbow Party state convention in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette:WORCESTER - At their state convention at the First Unitarian Church Saturday, Green-Rainbow...
View ArticleThrive Solar®
On Friday 11/14/14, Ranganayakulu Bodavula Ph D, Chairman and Managing Director of Thrive® Solar Energy Pvt Ltd (http://www.thriveenergy.co.in), spoke at Harvard's Center for Population Studies...
View ArticleIntertribal Problems Stuck on Stupid
We are going into our fifth month of demonstrations and actions all over the USA about police violence and sanctioned summary judgment. Hearing, reading, seeing the news, it seems as if brutality,...
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The Big Tent: Rainbow as Model
[John Rensenbrink Speech to MA Green-Rainbow Party Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, November 15, 2014]Thank you Roni. Greetings, very excited to be here with you. One piece of excitement: last...
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 ArticleEnergiewende: 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,...
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Recycled Solar: Double-Glazed Solar Hot Cap Cloche
I was cleaning out my storeroom the other day and came across another recycled solar device that I was fooling with a few years ago. A one liter clear plastic bottle makes a good hot cap or cloche...
View ArticleBrookline Tab endorses MK Merelice for Selectman
In an exciting local race that could see current Green-Rainbow Party co-chair MK Merelice elected to the Selectboard of the second largest town in Massachusetts, the Brookline Tab weighed in with a...
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