Quinton Zondervan has only been president of Green Cambridge for a year, but he’s already revitalized a volunteer organization that was on the verge of collapse. He was gracious enough to talk to me about the work that the group does and how he pulls together volunteers with diverse interests (stay tuned for the latter […]

Cambridge Day at the dasHAUS exhibit had a lot of material! Check out my previous posts covering it, focusing on passive houses and Massachusetts Green Communities. Transitioning from Lisa Capone’s talk on Green Communities, Rob Garrity, the executive director of Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN), boasted that the 70 cities covered by his organization’s 46 branches are […]

Before the passive house tour last week, Cambridge mayor Henrietta Davis and state senator Sal DiDomenico welcomed lawmakers and community advocates to a legislative breakfast, with presentations by Lisa Capone on Green Communities; Rob Garrity on harnessing local volunteers; and Paul Lyons on solar development. There was so much info in this session that I’ll […]

I am neither an architect nor a contractor, so forgive me if I misunderstand any of the passive house details—but please also correct me! I spent this morning at MIT, for the dasHAUS exhibit’s Cambridge Day events. Presented by the German American Chamber of Commerce, dasHAUS is a traveling tour demonstrating technologies used in passive house […]

Thanks to Mass Save, people in Massachusetts and Rhode Island can get a Philips EnduraLED for half off. This light bulb won the Department of Energy’s L prize, encouraging the development of cheaper, more natural-looking LED light bulbs. I can’t wait to try it. Get yours on the Mass Save website.