The Washington State Schools Land TrustThis is a post that I’ve been trying to finish since last October. It turns out a lot of relevant things keep happening in this topic…Feb 83Feb 83
Fed up and cold, what do you do for power after the storm?If you are living without power and or frustrated at the power failures impacting your neighborhood as a result of Tuesday’s wind storm and…Nov 22, 20242Nov 22, 20242
Heat Pump Check-in — 2024Way back in 2021 I finally found an installer who would install a ground source heat pump with no fossil fuel backup. It only took 5 years…Oct 19, 202473319Oct 19, 202473319
Carbon Death and TaxesWhat is up with a Carbon Tax? Why does it get my goat, so to speak? It comes back to economic thinking blotting out messy reality and…Sep 13, 20242Sep 13, 20242
The Voluntary Carbon Market is Working as DesignedOffsets, and in particular Amazon’s self-certification scheme, are making the rounds again so it probably makes sense to describe a bit of…Aug 17, 2024Aug 17, 2024
AI II: Electric Boogaloo15 months ago, I outlined some of my thoughts on AI as there was an ongoing freak-out over how superintelligent general intelligence was…May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
This Grist article from last week is a very familiar story.So long as the credit for doing good is separate from the actual good we’ll continue to get a climate show instead of climate action…May 14, 20245May 14, 20245
Bouncing Around in the SunI’ve had occasion to think about concentrating solar power again, which has somewhat faded in interest as photovoltaics have rapidly gotten…Feb 29, 20244Feb 29, 20244
Forestry and Friends: February ‘24We had a great Forests and Friends session today.Feb 16, 2024Feb 16, 2024
How2AIGoogle and Microsoft are in the news recently for using AIs for new material synthesis. How could those efforts have been more effective?Jan 28, 2024Jan 28, 2024
Toyota vs. TeslaA classic title like Ford vs. Ferrari, but a story more about competing business plans than machines.Dec 6, 2023Dec 6, 2023
You can’t lecture the fire.Earth Force was founded a year and a half ago to reduce future wildfire severity; to help prepare landscape scale forests for the healthy…Jun 9, 20231Jun 9, 20231
Beliefs around AI, Feb 2023This is a collection of several predictions that will prove naïve or adorable in hindsight, perhaps before the end of the year.Feb 23, 2023Feb 23, 2023
Scopes for DopesOrganizations are being encouraged to track their carbon emissions via public pressure and perceived competitive advantage, but what…Aug 17, 2021Aug 17, 2021
I sent a price signal: replacing natural gas with a ground source heat pump.Saving 9 tons of CO2 per year, and lowering on my energy bills.Aug 15, 20211Aug 15, 20211
Catching the SunAre solar updraft towers still a thing we can do to provide 24/7/365 green power? And can we troll Boring Company into taking a swing?Jun 5, 2021Jun 5, 2021
No time for carbonBefore we dive into a discussion of climate and carbon and change, we should first step back and establish a shared understanding around…Apr 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019
