by Eric Grunebaum Two headlines with nearly opposite impact landed in my mailbox last week and it caused me to reflect back on BASG’s En-ROADS Climate Interactive demonstration event in early June. The first was from Environmental Defense Fund’s newsletter, titled “A New Action Plan to Stabilize the Climate and Avert Catastrophe.” Catastrophe. That word … Continue reading An Elegant Solution to an Inconvenient Truth
by Tilly Pick The evening of September 4th with the Boston Area Sustainability Group started like no other. Yes, it once again was a diverse group of sustainability-minded people: professionals deeply involved in the topic; “students”; career switchers and networkers; activists and advocates. All of them were passionate and curious. And, it once again was an … Continue reading Don’t Treat Soil Like Dirt
by Aaron Hersum, Tilly Pick, and Eric Grunebaum They come in all sizes, many flavors, and they can span generations. I am talking about the industrial legacies in our communities that have been left behind for one reason or another. We may pretend these properties are not there and pass them each day without a … Continue reading How Brown Can Become The New Green
by Aaron Hersum It is good to be back! After the summer hiatus, I was looking forward to Power to the People: The New Energy Democracy, mostly because I was curious to learn what “energy democracy” is. As it turns out, energy democracy is multifaceted in its meaning, and nuanced in its application. The dictionary … Continue reading Share the Power
by Aaron Hersum Smog: a cloud of dirty air from cars, factories, etc., that is usually found in cities. It’s brown, thick, and easy to see. Smog is a clear villain. I can point to it and say “See, that’s what why we need to reduce emissions.” Unfortunately, carcinogens and radiation from natural gas, ultra-fine particles, … Continue reading Make the Invisible Costs Visible
by Aaron Hersum Well, I understand the 2016 election now: data analytics. According to Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder and CEO of the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) and veteran of many political campaigns, Trump and Clinton ran by far the most sophisticated data analytics campaigns in political history. Their managers knew every individual likely to vote in … Continue reading #IamaVoter
By Jessica Halvorsen Massachusetts has played an important role in carbon law (if there is such a field) in the United States, being the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit Massachusetts v. EPA, that ultimately ruled in 2007 that carbon dioxide is a “regulateable” pollutant, and led to Federal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now, … Continue reading The Leading “Edge”
By Aaron Hersum, with contributions from Jess Halvorsen, Tilly Pick, and Eric Grunebaum photo credit: Paul Corbit Brown The Last Mountain, a 2011 Sundance Festival film, illuminates a stunning trend in the energy sector that I did not anticipate when I decided to attend BASG’s “Clean Energy Transition” event. We are spending billions of dollars not to transition to a clean … Continue reading The True Cost of Coal and the Clean Energy Transition
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