Regenerative energy transportation systems - from some of the largest trucks in the world to e-bikes, electric battery transport as a moving grid with regenerative braking balancing uphill load with downhill gain. solarray.blogspot.com/2025/11/rege...

MA building code is 120 mph wind speed, down from 125 mph in the previous version

This is sooo Trmpian: Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say By Amanda Moore theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

Seen this in some Trmpist feeds: "Our schools need to teach patriotism again, not woke ideologies." Mark Twain: "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." Clint Eastwood as Will Munny in "Unforgiven": "Deserves got nothing to do with it."

I suspect what got the Dems that caved to cave was the air traffic cutback, the dangers to air traffic control, & the coming disaster of Thanksgiving travel But what do I know?

Net Zero Energy Links to developments in net zero energy building zeronetenrg.blogspot.com/2025/11/net-...

City Agriculture links to developments in urban & advanced agriculture also a free listserv cityag.blogspot.com/2025/11/city...

A baby speaks with angels when it smiles. from Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States_ by Richard M Dorson Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1964

Harvard’s Growth Lab is publishing Greenplexity - growthlab.app/greenplexity - which evaluates 10 green value chains powering the energy transition on a national basis. Every country in the world, 6000 products They are also working on Metroverse for city-scale

100% Clean, Renewable Energy & Storage for Everything Dr Mark Z Jacobson, Stanford Univ: electrifying everything brings demand for total energy down 54.2% 10% of the energy we produce goes into mining, processing, & transporting fossil fuel and uranium solarray.blogspot.com/2025/11/100-...

Boston by the Sea Floods, storms, & climate effects for Elected & Public Health Officials, Doctors, Hospitals, EMS Personnel... ecoethics.net/YSOLI/201907... from Tim Weiskel Prepare for the next weather emergency Solar IS Civil Defense solarray.blogspot.com/2017/09/is-i... (from 2017)

Tao Te Ching on the ritual of civility Thus after losing the Way, virtue. After losing virtue, benevolence. After losing benevolence, justice. After losing justice, ritual. Those married to ritual are thin on loyalty and faith and the first of chaos. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Reaction to SNAP & WIC problems - recapture some of the 30-40% waste in the field to table process Cleveland Urban Ag Study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 80% of vacant lots for 22% - 48% vegetables & fruits 25% poultry & eggs 100% honey More City Agriculture at cityag.blogspot.com

A NYC Mayor: "Fiorello LaGuardia spoke at least six languages: English, Italian, German, Hungarian, Croatian, and Yiddish;" "worked as an interpreter for the immigration services at Ellis Island" 1907 - 1910; & served one term in Congress as a Socialist while he was flying bombers in Italy in WWI.

from Zodiac by Ai Wei Wei with Elettra Stamboulis: He who has a mind to beat a dog will easily find a stick they used to say. And this is true for any oppressive regime. They don’t want to learn anything.

Geometry Links - Halloween 2025 Links to developments in geometric math, art, and design geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2025/10/geom...

I sorta kinda think King Charles is applying pressure to Trmp by what he's doing to his brother Andrew over the Epstein connection Ain't the main thrust but I'd venture to say Charles is enjoying getting a little back from the man who bragged about trying to bag his ex-wife

Who knew archy the poetic cockroach was a climate realist? don t cuss the climate it probably doesn t like you any better than you like it from archy and mehitabel

Bill Gates' "Truth": Temperature is not the best way to measure our progress on climate." Funny, I thought the way we were measuring our progress (or lack thereof) on climate was the amount of CO2 or, better, CO2e but, of course, under Trmp, we'll no longer measure either.

Trmp fired many nuclear safety workers during the DOGE purge only to hire them back Then furloughed many of them in the current shutdown So a call to test nuclear weapons now should pose no problems at all, right. Right?

How Big Oil kills sustainability & climate legislation Inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-... hat tip to www.eurotrib.com/story/2025/1...

RFKJr's HHS has a new research project How to cure measles: gather sheep droppings & make a tea from them from Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States by Richard Dorson It will be a double blind study (the blind leading the blind)

FBI Director Kash Patel wants to drop the college degree-requirement for the FBI agents & the training they get will drop from 18 weeks to just 8 www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...

I find it interesting that Indivisible has 3 events focused on VA Gov elections this week & none on NJ Gov which seems to be the tighter race Wonder why

Burkina Faso sanctioned by Trmp for refusing to accept deportees from USAmerica globalvoices.org/2025/10/25/w...

Saw Jonathan Richman play at the Somerville Theater tonight with Tommy Larkins He was loose & happy & having fun The hometown crowd loved him, clapped & sang along Known him for 50 years & this may have been the best performance of his I've seen

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - November 2025 hubevents.blogspot.com/2025/10/ener... Links to energy/climate/environmental events in the Boston area & online around the world. World-class experts sharing their knowledge, mostly for just the cost of your attention

Cooling the Climate Mini-Workshop Friday, October 24 1 PM - 2:45 PM EDT lali.teachable.com/p/cooling-th... Join Dutch author Rob de Laet and US author and educator Didi Pershouse on the potential to cool regional climates through reviving the biosphere. Cost: $25

An echo from the Clinton years: "He came in here and he trashed the place," says Washington Post columnist David Broder, "and it's not his place." How quaint it now seems.

For her birthday, Ursula K LeGuin on "The Stalin in the Soul": hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ursu...

Climate impact drilled down to individual prospective large projects Credible carbon accountability www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A national energy strike with a Solar IS Civil Defense drill - solar powered light, communication, battery charging - is technically & economically feasible Integrating e-vehicles from bikes on up through batteries & regenerative braking could provide even more power

October 20 Public session of Transport, Telecommunications, and Energy Council of EU video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/28169

ACLU training on Know Your Rights and De-Escalation for October 18 and other occasions www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BcA...

ACLU training on Know Your Rights and De-Escalation for October 18 and other occasions www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BcA...

Solar PSAs "Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous behaviors that will avoid extinction." www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 12 PSAs in less than 15 minutes Basic solar education

I suspect Taiwan can forestall a Chinese invasion by announcing it has a dead man's switch on its chip factories just in case. That would not only make the Chinese take notice but the rest of the world too.

Vindictive Prosecution: Thomas Jefferson Trmp www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... How Trmp & Thomas Jefferson are alike.

It's Peter Thiel day!!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... www.theguardian.com/technology/n... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

From the Andes to the Amazon: Investigating China's Climate Impact in Latin America www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UR... A panel of Global Voices Climate Justice Fellows from China, Taiwan, Venezuela, and Brazil on how China's Belt & Road Initiative is reshaping Latin America's climate landscape.

Can't you feel it, how everybody's regressing? 11 September infantilized this country. It had a chance to grow up, instead it chose to default back to childhood." Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon It's also our Reichstag Fire - just with a 25 year fuse

Billionaires & their philosophers: George Soros & Karl Popper Peter Thiel & Carl Schmitt Open Society versus Führerprinzip

The Trmp "mandate": Trmp won only 49.8% of the votes cast More people didn't vote, 90 million, than voted for Trmp, 77.3 million He's a minority President

Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For? Even failed prosecutions would force federal agents to think twice before breaking down doors. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/democratic...

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - October 2025 hubevents.blogspot.com/2025/09/ener... Yale Clean Energy Conference 2025 Thursday, November 6 Harvard Business School Climate Symposium 2025 Sunday, October 19 Columbia Univ series on Road to COP30; Jordan, Türkiye, Chile throughout the month

Ursula K LeGuin on "The Stalin in the Soul" hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ursu... "Once you stop asking questions, once you let Stalin into your soul, you can only smile, and smile, and smile."

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? "Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu... If you hit a paywall: archive.md/3GOz2

Franz Kafka's Advice to the Leopards Eating Faces Party Leopards break into the temple & drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers;this is repeated over & over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, & it becomes a part of the ceremony.