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A documentary on the Macallen Building, the notably green-spirited, brown-colored, wedge-shaped building on the edge of Southie and the South End in Boston, will be shown at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline Monday at 7 p.m..
The building is certified LEED gold and was a top 10 choice of the American Institute of Architects' Committee on the Environment.
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Not for a second do I believe Monsanto's response page to the movie "Food, Inc.," even though I scored a perfect 7-for-7 on its facts quiz it deploys to help carry its attack against the film.
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The premiere is Saturday in Charleston, W.Va. Can't wait till it comes to where I am.
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A family event took me to Israel for a week, where I had sporadic Internet access, and even less interest in working. Later in the month, I'll be away again, at Lake Powell, with potentially more interest in writing, but absolutely no electronic tether to the world.
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In a recent post about the Energy Smackdown, I conveyed some stats on typical carbon footprints, both domestically and internationally, as well as where Smackdown participants had begun and what they had accomplished.
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I'm way late on passing on information of a new endeavor by an old acquaintance, Rosemary Jason. Years ago for the Globe magazine, I wrote about her Pocket Rides, small, laminated cards with suggested routes for cyclists.
Now she's come out with Hungry Nomad Maps, which Jason says concentrate far less on distance and far more on destinations — farms, farmers' markets, wildlife refuges, beaches, and conservation land.
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Climate Ark has a pair of stories from the past couple of days boosting CCS (carbon capture and sequestration), showing again that bad ideas don't always go away on their own.
Most recent, from Reuters, is a report that Europe intends to invest heavily to help China, then India and others, to develop CCS technology.
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I am dismayed to read about Collin Peterson, the Minnesota Democrat who is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and was lovingly profiled by the Times a couple of days ago.
"Peterson says he does not set out to be a contrarian," the story says, but based on some of his comments, I begin to wonder if he sets out to be a bonehead, instead.
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A couple of dozen participants in the Energy Smackdown gathered for pizza, veggies, soda, and celebration last night at the Regent Theatre in Arlington to cap off the energy-saving competition's second season.
About 30 families from Arlington, Medford, and Cambridge vied for team and individual honors in the yearlong effort, whose larger purpose was to explore, experience, and model strategies for reducing humankind's impact on the planet.
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Please note this post is listed under "rants," and you may do well just to skip over it.
I have been struggling lately not to go over to the SUV drivers — and others — who are sitting idly by, running their engines without intent of moving, so they can have their air conditioning in 70-degree swelter.
