A 20-something Austrian, Benedikt Stonawski, visited us last summer here in Baltimore. Tall, handsome, urbane and a fluent English speaker, Bennie was expanding his world experience by visiting L.A., Cleveland and several East Coast cities during summer break from his …
Opening today in the town of Krommenie, the Netherlands, is a solar bike path–or, why not…a green road? This stretch is being called the first of its kind in the sphere of public works ownership. The path includes embedded solar …
of water from our Creator’s perspective.” This from the Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake’s Kolya Braun-Greiner, MDiv, Project Coordinator, Trees for Sacred Places. Her piece in the current bulletin is so worthy that I want you to see a good share of …
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From the always imaginative folks at Annapolis Green comes the suggestion that Hydra Pouches be substituted for paper cups at events like 10Ks, marathons or triathlons. What a sensible way to eliminate unnecessary waste! Do you have one? Use it …
Background– The other Saturday I was in NYC attending a day-long symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation program’s founding in the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia. A good share of the program assumed the climate-preserving virtue …
Washington Post (print ed.) headline today: “What’s behind the spread of solar? Peer pressure.” I’d have thought it’s because the price of panels has dropped so dramatically. From the article: “The installation of one additional solar photovoltaic roftop project within …
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Beleaguered Liberia (Ebola) will receive $150M in aid from Norway in exchange for Liberia’s cessation of clear-cutting its rain forest. Now that’s progressive! This negotiation is a payment for ecosystem services. Negotiations of this kind follow a rationale known as …
Couple of interesting pieces in newspapers last week. Flooding– A study by the Union of Concerned Scientists warns of cities at risk of regular flooding in years to come. Some may view UCS as left-leaning politically. Perhaps you can edify me …
Some of you may know that Amtrak offers its passengers the choice to offset the carbon associated with train travel. For an upcoming trip to New York I was offered the opportunity to pay $.40 to offset .04 tons of …