Word: solar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge and Fall River were the only cities slated to receive funds for both passive solar systems and weatherization improvements
...building formerly owned by Radcliffe College and soon to be heated by solar power will shortly house Cambridge elderly as a result of state funding approved Thursday by Governor Edward J. King...
...Linnaean St. building will conserve at least 60 per cent of its normal energy consumption, though the structure is ill-suited for solar conversion, Rolly Rouse, manager of multi-family solar programs for the state, said yesterday...
Conserving energy in the structure will be as easy as "ladling cream off the top of milk" due to increased insulation and a passive solar radiator, Rouse said...
...Warfare, and its preparation, are the most highly entropic (read: destructive) form of human activity; and our aggressive drive to extract all possible unrenewable resources to feed the mechanical (read: growth-oriented) society. Until society comes to grip with the energy crisis and moves into a new phase ("The solar age") we will not progress, but will instead hasten graver crises and our descent into hell, which Rifkin calls "high-entropy...