On January 26, with competing headlines announcing at least 77,000 job cuts in just one day while jobless claims hit a 26-year high, President Obama made his first major policy address on energy. The president described the our energy challenge in very stark, clear terms:
The latest issue of Environmental Building News has an outstanding article by Alex Wilson, titled, “Growing Food Locally: Integrating Agriculture Into the Built Environment.” That inspired me to submit this article, which is modified from one originally published on the web site WorldChanging.com.
Well I hate to admit it now in retrospect, but back around 1987 or 88 (and maybe some of the old-timers can recall this more exactly) I was one of the four nasty NESEA Board members who voted against changing the name from the Northeast “Solar” Energy Association to the Northeast “Sustainable” Energy Association. This was not out of any malice to the word “sustainable” or because I’m a cultural laggard, but it was due to the
I devoted spare time this past year to building a new small office for our architecture practice. I thought of a simple way to use insulating concrete forms (ICF’s) to make a frost-protected, shallow slab foundation. It worked out well, so I’m sharing the idea, with hopes that other folks will improve upon it.
Buried in the massive “stimulus bill” working its way through Congress this week are details that could significantly alter the markets for solar and wind energy. And the details matter.
Welcome to the new NESEA website and the the debut of the NESEA blog.
