I generally dislike the term “colonialism” to describe modern political and economic relationships, but I do observe a “colonial” relationship between the urban centers of Boston and suburbs and the rural community of Greenfield and surrounding forests, around the proposed Greenfield bio-mass plant. The bio-mass plan proposal is to build a 40+megawatt electrical generating plant [...]
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Greenfield bio-mass as urban colonialism
Posted in Electrical generation, Energy policy, New England on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Zero Net Energy Building
Posted in Electrical generation, Energy policy, Space heating and lighting on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not an engineer. The purpose of this blog is not to propose or even comment in an informed way on the state of sustainable engineering. I do want to give a great deal of credit to the innovative engineers that have worked for multiple decades to convince other engineers, architects, planners of the relevance [...]
