On Gates, Crowley, and the Trench-Mentality
Probably everyone who has a sibling was told at on point in their life that it takes two to have a fight. It always takes two. How do you know a tree fell in a forest if no one heard? Ya don't.I...
View ArticleHouse GOPer to demand Obama "stupidly" apology.
Are the GOPers about to overplay their hand?
View ArticleMika Brezinski the Victim
Mika still does not get the Gates story. Now the self-proclaimed "journalist" is mopping about talking about woo is me.
View ArticleWas Gates arrest legal under state and federal law?
Forget the race issue. Was the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. legal under Massuchussetts and federal law?
View ArticleSgt. James Crowley On Arresting Professor Gates
Sgt. James Crowley with the Cambridge, Mass. police department describes those tense moments leading up to the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Turns out it had nothing to do with race. I...
View ArticleOn Gates: Cops Did Act Stupidly, But It's Not About Race
It's about abuse of power.Don't get me wrong; race may very well have played a role in Crowley's decision to arrest Gates. Race certainly played a role in Gate's reaction to Crowley. The color of...
View ArticleWeatherization Barnraising: Cambridge, MA 9/27/09
Weatherization Barnraising Sunday, September 27 12:30—5:00 pm 5 Dickinson St., Cambridge, MAThe federal government hasn’t cut carbon yet, so let’s do it ourselves!Help to weatherize a neighbor's home...
View ArticleMichael Blasnik Speaks!
Myths and Fact: How to Save Energy and $$$ in Your Home Tues. Oct. 6, 7 – 9 pm at Livable Streets (100 Sidney Street, Cambridge) Suggested $2 donationPipe insulation? Install new windows? Attic...
View ArticleEnergy Events
Here are some of the energy events on the Harvard-MIT axis this week. Harvard is still on vacation and MIT is doing IAP, independent activities period, that time when anybody from a professor emeritus...
View ArticleWeatherization Barnraising Results
On June 26, at the Cambridge, MA YWCA Emergency Family Shelter, about 30 people from Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET)Reduced the leakiness of the building by 12% (reducing the air leakage by 1,500...
View ArticleShould the World Bank Go to the Brew Pub?
On the afternoon of November 16, 2010, Andrew Steer, special envoy on climate change for the World Bank, spoke at Harvard about "Why Developing Countries Urgently Need a Global Climate Deal ... and Why...
View ArticleIntegrated Urban Agricultural Systems
On Monday January 30th, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a public meeting at Suffolk University, halfway between the State House and City Hall, to change the Boston zoning laws to allow...
View ArticleLocal Food Network: Cambridge, MA
A few Cambridge residents are talking about how Cambridge, MA (pop 100,000) could become more self-sufficient in food, following the example of Todmorden (pop 15,000)...
View ArticleSinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Massachusetts Is on the Edge of Hell.
It's the eighth anniversary today of marriage equality in Massachusetts, the first jurisdiction in the United States in which the perversion of same-sex marriage became legal, and the third in the...
View ArticleEating the City and Town: Todmorden and Beyond
A few months ago, some people in Cambridge, MA were inspired by the example of Todmorden in the UK between Leeds and Manchester, a town that decided to grow as much of its food as possible within the...
View ArticleThe Cambridge, MA Solar Tool
You can now estimate with great detail the solar electric potential of any roof in Cambridge, MA by just typing in an address on a webpage, the Cambridge Solar Tool (http://cambridgema.gov/...). For...
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Massive police operation happening now in Boston area
Bystander held by police and later released Information is sketchy at this point, but CNN is reporting a massive police operation in the Cambridge area just outside of Boston. There are multiple police...
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Grave matters for the living and the dead
When people die, they don't simply disappear. There are remains - physical remnants of their mortal existence, their "mortal coil" that bound them to their lives. There may or may not be people left...
View Article"Net zero is not a practical goal in New England"
Peter Wilson in a Cambridgewickedlocal with news from the Chronicle and Tab LtE wrote that "Net zero is not a practical goal in New England" and that may or may not be true. There are a number of net...
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Ideas for Next BosKos meetup?
attribution: GreyHawk Hi guys! One of the things we discussed at the Barking Crab during last month's BosKos meetup (you know, the one with the snowstorm?) was ideas for our next meetup. Cambridge...
View ArticleMethane Management: Crowdfunding Natural Gas Leak Monitoring
HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring...
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Boston Kossacks - Up & At 'em!
OK, BosKogs - you know who you are. And, meta aside, you know why you're here. So let's dispense with the noise of the day and take a few minutes to think about the near future - the next BosKos...
View ArticleBosKos 12 April 2014, Lebanese Edition
Today's BosKos took place at the Café Barada in Cambridge. We made a good showing - not our usual record attendance, but approximately 75% of our usual robust showing... so definitely a great crowd. ;)...
View ArticleMIT at Flood Level
On Friday, May 2, 2014 FossilFreeMIT (http://www.fossilfreemit.org) declared a flood zone all around their campus at Hurricane Sandy strength plus projected 2050 sea level rise to publicize their...
View ArticleCambridge MA: Energy and Environment Test Bed
Since Cambridge, MA is the home of MIT, the city serves as a test bed for many new technologies, for good or ill. As Cambridge is also a famously active political and environmental community, the...
View ArticleNatural Gas Leaks: Methane Management
This summer, the Squeaky Leak Project (https://www.indiegogo.com/...) will drive down every street in Cambridge and Somerville, MA with a high-precision methane analyzer and map all the natural gas...
View ArticleEradicating Child Homelessness in MA
Eradicating Child Homelessness in MAhttp://www.eventbrite.com/... Monday, March 2 9 – 5 PM Lesley University, University Hall, 1815 Massachusetts Avenue, CambridgeGood on Lesley University, one of the...
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 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 ArticleHarvard Business School’s Oldest Alumni Propose a New Climate Project
Boston, MA, April 2, 2015--Helping to kick off Harvard’s first annual “Climate Week,” centenarian F. Gorham Brigham, Jr., and 97-year-old Del Markoff, Harvard Business School’s oldest living alumni,...
View ArticleSolutions for the Urban Heat Island Effect
There were 33 proposals submitted to this Climate Colab contest solutions to the urban heat island effect in Cambridge, MA recently. I wonder if any of these would be useful in India too....
View ArticleReport of the MIT Climate Change Conversation
The Report of the MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee which has been meeting around the campus for the last few months is now available at http://web.mit.edu/...This report is in preparation for...
View ArticleBreaking: Shooting near MIT, shooter still at large
So we are hearing from my daughter that there is a shooting three blocks from where my daughter lives on the MIT campus. Shooting on Portland and Main where there was a parade.Update: though the...
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Muslim woman sets up 'Ask A Muslim' stand in Massachusetts & what happens...
In a beautiful act of courage and hope, Mona Haydar, a Muslim, set up an “Ask a Muslim” stand in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hoping to bring more understanding of the Muslim community. She also offered...
View ArticleEnergy Model of Boston
xYouTube VideoThe Sustainable Design Lab at MIT has built a model which estimates the gas and electricity demand of every building in Boston for every hour of every day of the year, nearly 100,000...
View ArticleMUST READ: How Democracies Are Stolen
The Guardian has an outstanding extensive article written by Carole Cadwalladr titled “The great British Brexit robbery: how our was hijacked”that outlines in great detail an intricate web of right...
View ArticleHow Trump won the election with the aid of Dr. Spectre
Amazingly, the key to Trump’s victory may have been through the shady actions of a neuro-scientist who legally changed his name to Dr. Spectre! Motherboard wrote a great story back in January about...
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Collusion Cluster: Cambridge, Kushner, Flynn and Bannon.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has added a veteran cyber prosecutor to his team, filling what has long been a gap in expertise and potentially signaling a recent focus on computer...
View ArticleHope in the fight against fake news: The Fake News Game
One of the biggest problems facing democracies, and I would say even civilization, today has been the spread of fake news. This is because democracies and civilization both depend upon a core set of...
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Howard Dean says this means Treason
Howard Dean tweets (I don’t) and about 10 hours ago noted:Howard DeanVerified account @GovHowardDean10h10 hours agoBased on what Brennan has said and what the Mercer's did, I am thinking there will be...
View ArticleMassachusetts city announces legal defense fund for vulnerable immigrant...
Campaign ActionWith the GOP-led Congress continuing to stall on permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and other undocumented immigrants, local and state...
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Cambridge Analytica, Ted Cruz, Facebook and you
The year is 2015 and the grand march to the fiasco that was the Election Year of 2016 is just getting under way. Back then, when the world made a little more sense, Cambridge Analytica was not backing...
View ArticleLinks between Trump, Cambridge Analytica, ExxonMobil, Lukoil, Rosneft,...
There may be links between ExxonMobil, Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft, Cambridge Analytica and the Trump Campaign. Lukoil and Cambridge Analytica are being investigated by Robert Mueller....
View ArticleCambridge is The Tip of The Iceberg with Facebook
As seems to be the case the media is not doing their job. While they are talking about the theft of data from Facebook by Cambridge, I have not heard a single person ask how many other companies have...
View ArticleVideo exposes police tackling and beating naked unarmed black Harvard student
A 21-year-old black Harvard mathematics student, Serlome Ohene, was tackled and punched repeatedly by Cambridge police on Friday night after he stood in the middle of a busy road naked and disoriented....
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Korean Duo pass through Cambridge on Cross Country Bike Trip
Jeon Seung Hyun Jeong DaseongWhite jersey-clad cyclists from Korea were spotted passing through Cambridge, Ohio on Monday. The cyclists, Jeong Daseong and Jeon...
View ArticleWomen's History Month: The Baldwin you never learned about, and other...
The Baldwin surname in black history is well known—when the first name is James. I wonder how many people know the history of Maria Louise Baldwin. I certainly didn’t. I was browsing the internet...
View ArticleGrubHub and Uber Eats lob threats as cities move to regulate delivery app fees
With restaurants closed for dine-in business in many states, the survival of the restaurant industry—or at least of independent restaurants—depends on takeout and delivery. But a big chunk of the money...
View ArticleEnergy and Other Events
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...
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