Mr Sustainable, Dante DiPirro of Hopewell NJ, will speak on Earth Day, April 22, 2015 at 7:30 pm about his off-grid, solar home and how to live sustainably using solar power and sustainable building materials. He will show pictures and discuss passive solar design, solar energy, and the need to think and live sustainably. He’ll also discuss how he charges his electric car — with free, non-polluting electricity– by plugging it into his solar house!
The event will take place at Flemington DIY, A Community Art Space at 90 Main St., Flemington, New Jersey. Flemington DIY (Do It Yourself) is an organization whose mission is to inspire social change by fostering and cultivating projects that connect the local community with musicians and artists. Flemington DIY hosts civic-minded and community events throughout the year.
Dante DiPirro will be a panelist on a discussion of solar energy at Rutgers University on December 3, 2014. The discussion will include the current status of solar energy, the marketplace in New Jersey, and the future of solar energy in New Jersey and the United States. Other panelists include: Jeanne Fox, former President of the NJ Board of Public Utilities; Pam Frank, of Gabel Associates; and Robert Kropp, a blogger on sustainablity. The roundtable will kick off at 6 pm at the Student Activities Center, 613 George Street, New Brunswick NJ 08903. The event is open to students, government officials, and members of the public.
Dante DiPirro, Mr. Sustainable and an environmental lawyer, opposes the fossil fuel industry’s proposed Penn East pipeline under the Delaware River and through environmentally sensitive areas of Hunterdon and Mercer Counties. The Delaware River is no place for a pipeline given that the river is an important source of drinking water, a key ecosystem, and a valued place of recreation and beauty for residents. Second, the Sourland Mountains — the largest contiguous forest in central New Jersey — and the other environmentally sensitive areas and open space that would be dug up to install a pipeline must be protected from the massive construction work planned, and must be kept free of the environmental risk that operating such a pipeline would entail. Third, and more fundamentally, the installation of new pipelines is an attempt of the dying fossil fuel industry to extend the burning of unclean fuels, and delay our move to the clean energy economy lead by innovative solar and wind power, and as such must be actively opposed as bad public policy– bad for progress, bad for health, and bad for the environment.
For more information including a map showing the proposed route and list of ways to oppose the project, see http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2014/09/29/the_beacon/featured/doc54231a0261c5b608063766.txt
Tesla motor company is building a sprawling new battery plant in Nevada that will support thousands of new jobs and boost the local economy.
The batteries, to be built in a joint venture with Panasonic, are expected to support teslas planned model three – a sedan that will be sold for $40,000.
Improvements in storage technology will make electric cars more and more common.
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-tesla-nevada-20140905-story.html
Currently, if you fly, you’re burning a lot of fossil fuel. But research may change all that in the near future. In fact, it may be possible to have an all electric airliner within 25 years.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130802-powering-up-hybrid-planes
Electric vehicles are here to stay. They or better for the environment and health, cost less to maintain and operate, and meet or can exceed the performance and comfort of traditional vehicles.
With all these advantages, we are likely to see more more electric cars on the road. But The thing that would really spur faster adoption of electric vehicles would be the next improvement in energy storage technology. The reason is that better storage would give a greater vehicle range.
there is a great deal of research into new storage technologies including the possible use of fuel cells or improved batteries. with regard to new battery technology, check out GE’s flow battery under development which GE hopes would give an electric vehicle at 240 mile range.
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/29/new-ge-flow-battery-aims-for-240-mile-ev-range/
Fossil fuels are dirty and polluting. Nuclear creates waste that lasts “forever” and we can’t find a place to store it. Existing power plants are aging and scheduled for retirement. Foreign oil dependence puts us at the whims of others, and trying to squeeze out the remainder of our domestic fossil fuels, like coal-mining and gas-fracking, just perpetuates our subservience to 19th and 20th century polluting fossil fuels. The 21st century is here. It’s time for a renewable energy transition!
In the same way that we created a new electric industry in the early 1900s, we should plan for – and immediately start building — an infrastructure where eventually most of our electricity will come from renewable, non-polluting sources. Just as in the 20th century, government planning, support and incentives and private capital should establish a forward-looking plan, with periodic milestones that will be achieved along the way. This effort is over-due, and the only way to achieve a transition that will benefit this country by providing plentiful, renewable, non-polluting, home-grown electricity that will power our lives, industries, and future.
On March 20, 2013, Mr Sustainable, Dante DiPirro, was interviewed on the Good Morning Show on Hunterdon County Chamber Radio.
A podcast of the interview is available on line.
The interview covered Mr Sustainable, his off-grid, solar home, his sustainable interests and activities, and how others can live sustainably.
With the tragic devastation of the Shore from Superstorm Sandy comes the opportunity to rebuild in a sustainable way. Since there is going to be construction, we might as well do it right– incorporating sustainable energy and sustainable building principals and materials.
Let’s make the most of this opportunity to use sustainability to rebuild after Sandy in a way that creates sustainable jobs, bolsters our economy, protects our health and the environment, and leave us more resilient.
Mr Sustainable, Dante DiPirro, will join a panel of speakers that includes legislators, journalists, and experts in the renewable energy field.
Others on the panel include: Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula the Chair Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee, Tom Johnson, Energy & Environment Writer and Co-Founder of NJ Spotlight, and Kris Ohleth, Director of Permitting for the Atlantic Wind Connection.
The conversation will be moderated by Harriet Shugarman, of ClimateMama, and is sponsored by the Sierra Club.
The event is free to the public. For information and to register.
