by Ken Ward
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How a simple renovation turned into the "Big Dig" of rehabs
Home Economics of the JP Green House, Part 1 0
Posted 5 days, 20 hours ago From an initial budget of $25,000 to a revised estimate of $200,000, the JP Green House has taken on Big Dig proportions -- but the new reality will mean a smarter eco-model in the end. Read More -
They Nailed It
Slideshow: Reinventing the JP Green House 0
Posted 5 days, 20 hours ago Ken Ward and Andrée Zaleska are turning an old Boston store into a new model of eco-living -- here's a glimpse at the work underway. Read More -
The night I slept with Jim Hansen 15
Posted 2 weeks ago College students in Massachusetts got tired of letting climate worries keep them up all night. Now they're sleeping soundly -- in the middle of Boston Common. Read More -
Mass. religious, environmental leaders beseech Obama to take action
WWLD: What Would Lincoln Do? 2
Posted 4 weeks ago Conjuring images of another world leader faced with a profound moral challenge, Massachusetts religious and environmental leaders call upon Obama to act on climate quickly. Read More -
the rhymes they are a-changin'
Eve of Destruction (New Millennium) 5
Posted 1 month ago As a rallying cry for this weekend's Day of Climate Action, veteran activist Ken Ward rewrote a classic tune -- see him perform it with partner Andrée Zaleska here. Read More -
Tree Spiker, From Earth First to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Roselle’s Rollicking Tale & Moral of the Story 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago http://JPGreenHouseUploads.yolasite.comMike Roselle has a knack for being in the right place at the right time and a genius for creating confusion in high places. As with all effective rabble-rousers, he has left a trail of enmity in his wake (not always in the opposition camp), but that is to be expected in any political life anchored in truth and guided by the precept that disruption of the status quo on behalf of wild things and wild places is both moral obligation and wise strategy.
Mike’s rollicking new book announces in the very title that this… Read More -
Pop Quiz 0
Posted 2 months ago Which of the following organizations – U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Natural Resources Defense Council or the American Coal Council – posted the following paragraph? Read More -
Killing it cleanly
Climate SOS campaign aims to defeat ACES for the right reason 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comment makes clear, there will be no climate bill this year. Read More -
Sierra Club calls for functional global climate solution... sort of
Carl Pope says 350 ppm not strong enough, endorses carbon pricing and global tax & dividend! 0
Posted 3 months ago In the Sept/Oct issue of Sierra Club Magazine, Club Chairman Carl Pope details four "fallacies about solving global warming" that must be scrapped in order to achieve "the transformational global deal we need to save our planet" in Copenhagen. Put in positive terms, and looking only at the specifics, Pope outlines the following platform.
1. Pricing carbon to subsidize renewables and energy efficiency.
2. International tax & dividend system to transfer fossil fuel-based corporate and national wealth acquired by exploitation of the global (carbon sink) commons.
3. Scrapping… Read More -
The not-so-trivial carbon impact of pet ownership
Should Kuba have a puppy? 19
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago Kuba is cute! Puppies are cute! Kuba wants a puppy -- how cute! But pets come with carbon impacts attached ... does that mean no puppy? Vote now. Read More
