Climate Politics

All these inter-related issues are too important for the typical corrupt political horse trading between politicians and lobbyists we have come to expect from Washington.

The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience

The Transition Handbook is a whole-systems thinking, solutions-focused, inside-out approach on how communities can manage peak oil and climate change.

This is Where You Belong: Engaged. Informed. & Connected.

On a good day at NESEA I am engaged, informed, and connected. If you practice sustainability this is where you belong, having good days at NESEA with me and the thousands of others who continue to shape our “confident vision”.

Getting Serious About Energy In Public Buildings

Lets stop counting points and instead focus peoples attention much more clearly with a measurement we all understand very well – dollars.

The First Tenet of Sustainability

Thgis second installment on the sometimes fuzzy word “sustainbility” shows it not to be as fuzzy as, let’s say, “hard core pornography but it may not be waht you think it is either.

Sustainability

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