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It never fails to amaze me just how crummy are most of the dwellings built in either the USA or the UK. When I lived in Texas, the houses were made of cheap, temporary materials. Joni Mitchell described them: “And they’re all made of ticky-tacky and...
by Adventurist
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 11:01 AM PDT
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Ithaca, NY raises $100 million to decarbonize its buildings https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/ithaca-new-york-raised-100m-climate-proof-buildings https://inhabitat.com/ithaca-raises-100m-to-decarbonize-buildings/ 18 story tower gets a...
by gmoke
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on Fri Jan 14, 2022 at 07:27 PM PST
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Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sat Oct 30, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in California, placed first in the annual lobbying “competition” in California in 2019 with $8.8 million spent on influencing legislators,...
by Dan Bacher
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on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 05:23 PM PST
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“...politics failed us, so we decided to bring the solutions ourselves...” On April 22, kosak mosesfreeman brought a terrific new TEDTalk video by Majd Mashharawi to Morning Open Thread. I haven’t found diaries on this brilliant Palestinian...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed May 08, 2019 at 07:00 AM PDT
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A weekly series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Aug 05, 2018 at 07:35 AM PDT
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I write this not from the comfort of a rock star hotel or a vacation destination that I was dying to visit. At the moment, I’m sitting in a hospital room in San Juan Presbyterian - where an encounter with some untreated water combined with an ear...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Jan 31, 2018 at 10:16 AM PST
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Over the last few days I’ve been talking about how we build a party of the future. And now it is time for the cold facts. We’ve seen a lot of ‘this went wrong, that went wrong’ but we don’t see enough self-assessment of what went wrong. Well, I’m here...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Thu Dec 01, 2016 at 01:05 PM PST
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A movement is growing at Daily Kos to fix a key problem in our party — regardless of whether Hillary, Martin, or Bernie wins the presidential nomination. In the past couple of months we’ve launched Crowdsourcing the 50-State Strategy and are recruiting...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Sep 07, 2016 at 05:01 PM PDT
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I wrote in October about how Aji & Wings had their home taken away from them due to fallout from the financial crisis; how instead of negotiating with them for more affordable payments that would let them stay in their home, the representative laughed
by Avilyn
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on Thu Mar 24, 2016 at 07:34 AM PDT
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It's the first installment of The Earthy Robot Energy Break episodes!
Energy Breaks are 15-20 minute long episodes of the podcast, focused on - you guessed it - energy! Well, energy efficiency, ...
by earthyrobot
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on Wed Jun 03, 2015 at 12:36 PM PDT
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by shortfinals
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on Sun Dec 29, 2013 at 05:09 PM PST
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To America's School Boards,
What if I could you offer you a reliable path to ...
Improve Educational Results Improve Student, Teacher, and Staff morale Improve Student, Teacher, and Staff health ...
by A Siegel
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on Mon Sep 02, 2013 at 08:17 AM PDT
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And still developing in many ways!
What we once were, what we were once building economically and more, what we were envied for by the rest, what us older folk, now, grew up in and then into. Me a ...
by jimstaro
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on Tue Jun 25, 2013 at 05:10 AM PDT
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Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times.
by A Siegel
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on Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 08:56 AM PST
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By far the biggest expense the average person will have in the course of their lifetime will be their house. Reducing or eliminating the cost of housing when you retire, can go a long way to making ...
by pollwatcher
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on Sun Apr 24, 2011 at 02:07 PM PDT
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Very simply, across the economy, energy efficiency is almost certainly the top investment option -- as individuals, businesses, communities, government ... The rate of return possibilities are ...
by A Siegel
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on Tue Nov 23, 2010 at 01:18 PM PST
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I have been working a job since November. I have put countless hours of effort into this endeavor, and in that time I have received $300 in compensation. Over the 7 months I have worked with this ...
by MinistryOfTruth
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on Sun May 30, 2010 at 01:36 PM PDT
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"The relationship between Israel and the US is not going well at all. President Obama has an agenda that is contrary to the best interests of Israel. I think his naivety about the Middle East is ...
by boguseconomist
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on Wed Mar 24, 2010 at 02:06 PM PDT
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The January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake will go down in history as one of the world’s most ...
by Aglaya
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on Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 11:14 AM PST
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