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What if there was good bicycle parking at McDonalds
http://streetsblog.net/2014/12/01/what-if-every-mcdonalds-had-really-good-bike-parking/Filed under: bikes, erik-green, green, structural
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Heating Degree Days and NSTAR (our gas company)
NSTAR puts a nice 13 month chart of usage on your monthly bill (so one can see usage from the same month in the previous year). That’s nice. But… what would be even cooler is if they showed the HDD and...
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Competition and climate change
http://scripting.com/2015/01/18/howToGetSmaller.html “Our programming has led us to where we are. Evolution, survival of the fittest, competitiveness. All this was good for the first 99 percent of...
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personal action vs legal action / living by example vs working toward...
“The Hidden Life of Garbage is a two year old interview packed with great insights on the politics of waste, including this shocker: When we think about being “green,” reducing waste and so on, we...
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air-source mini-split heat pump capacity ratings explained
From the comments here: “66. I’m going back to post #38 about minisplit capacity and dewpoint. The information in that post contradicted what I understood to be correct, so I checked in with my...
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ENViROnMENTAL FAIL: review: Briggs & Stratton Smart-Fill Spout vs…
1.9 stars. Typical 1-star review excerpt: “I’d like to discuss this matter with the numb-skull who though that it would be more friendly to the polar bears to pour gas all over oneself rather than...
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Snow Depth Days
To truly tell which winters have been the worst, I propose a variation on the HDD (heating degree days… along with cooling degree days, great tools for comparing climates) calculation of “snow depth...
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What my gas bill tells me
Actually, NStar (now Eversource) tells me some interesting things on my gas bill. It tells me: – avg therms per day – avg temp over the billing period. So for the most recent bill it was 5.1 therms/day...
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How to grow a forest really really fast
View story at Medium.comFiled under: erik-green
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How much water is contaminated by fracking for oil?
“So for every barrel of oil, that was around 19 barrels of water.” http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/oil-wells-produce-even-more-water-oilFiled under: erik-green
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How Solar Got Cheap
GOLDSTEIN: John is not rich and he is not getting solar panels to save the world. Does the environmental part of it – is that meaningful to you? Does that matter? O’HAGAN: Not really. (Laughter)....
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ecovillage AND don’t fly
Article title could read… if everyone lived in an ecovillage and DIDN’T FLY… (old news that flying wrecks one’s footprint score since it makes it so easy to go so far….)...
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The 7% smaller house
So you’re going to build an already-small superinsulated “pretty good house” (look it up). And you’re thinking of doing double-stud walls. Just remember that the extra 6″ or so adds up. It’s on both...
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effects #37: The road to hell is paved with good intentions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_good_intentionsFiled under: erik-green, green, legal action, personal action vs movements, productivity vs procrastination, shifting baseline
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EU emission laws will impact US as well. In a good way.
For example… BMW sees the future vis-a-vis tough emmisions regulations in the EU and is moving more and more towards electric and plug-in hybrids. This will clearly impact the cars they offer in other...
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We need new rules for biking / bikers
Reasonable ideas… http://withoutbullshit.com/blog/the-boston-globes-jeff-jacoby-needs-a-bicycling-lesson/Filed under: bikes, erik-green, green
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Global Warming: What’s the worst that can happen?
Even if the chances are something small like 0.1% or 1% or 5% that human-caused global warming/climate change is 1. happening 2. substantial 3. and there is something we can do about it It is still...
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Important but…
OK, so it’s been about 3 years since we moved OUT of our wonderful “almost passivhaus” house in Stow, MA… a few comments (now that I have a little distance) about things I would do differently. 1....
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“The World Health Organization is recommending that the radon action level be reduced to 2.7 PC/L from the US current standard of 4 PC/L”
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LINK: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/qa-spotlight/fixing-poorly-insulated-roof “Local builders aren’t getting it Butson says the local builders he’s contacted haven’t been of much help....
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