On Sunday, April 27 the MOPLY community will celebrate Earth Day with a Vegan/Vegetarian Lunch, Eco Fair, and Electric Vehicle car show. Details are at https://www.moply.org/solar-at-mo. The headline news is that the church is having a large solar panel system installed on the roof. This system will have a 123 kW nameplate capacity and will […]
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I am on several Sierra Club North Star chapter mailing lists and recently got an invite to a Degrowth Team meeting. The meeting invite included a link to an article for shared reading by Christopher Marquis, published on the Harvard Business Review and titled, In Defense of Degrowth. I saved a copy of the article
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I was recently contacted by Martin, a school volunteer at an extracurricular science program. Martin related that a student in the program had come across an earlier blog post I had written, as well as an informative article on electric school buses, and wondered if I would be willing to put a link to that
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A few months ago, the question of an alternative reality occurred to me: What if our personal contribution of green house gasses from driving a car was confined to our own share of the global atmosphere? This is not how the world works, of course. Every time we burn a fossil fuel, the CO2 produced
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The Environmental Justice group at First Universalist is running a Drawdown Carbon program to help members learn about what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. After their community dinner on April 19, 2023, I was invited to provide my EV presentation as part of the Drawdown program. The slide deck did not change
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I am doing another community education class on behalf of Rochester Public Utilities (RPU) on September 27. Details are on the Rochester Community Education website (class page). The title is “Electric Vehicles – Are They Right for You?”, which I think is a great title since that is the question a lot of people are
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Shout out to my church, Mount Olivet of Plymouth for recognizing the importance of the UN Climate Change conference (aka COP26) being held now through November 12 in Glasgow Scotland. As noted in the Moply elert, this site is chock full of EV (and solar power) goodness and I’m always up for answering questions you
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