Student activism leads Boston school to adopt solar

The Planet Protectors club at the Winsor School, an all-girls college prep day school, successfully launched a project that will cover one third of the school’s energy needs and is estimated to sav…

Club d'Elf: Now Open Your Eyes (animation)

Now Open Your Eyes From the Club d'Elf album You Never Know (Face Pelt records, release date: 4/1/22) Animation by The Mark of Nancy https://themarkofnancy.com/ Music by Mike Rivard Performed by Club d'Elf: Duke Levine (guitar, 6 string bass,...

Club d'Elf feat. Kseniya Simonova: Dervish Dance

Club d'Elf: Dervish Dance (traditional Sufi, arr. by Mike Rivard) Sand animation by Kseniya Simonova Musicians: Brahim Fribgane: oud, hand drum John Medeski: keyboards David Fiuczynski: guitars Mister Rourke: turntables Mike Rivard: double...

Peel Sessions, by Come

9 track album

First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision

A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are just extensions of biased policing efforts. People are placed in...

A bomb cyclone with the power of a hurricane will unleash snow and blizzard-like conditions this weekend

Confidence is growing that a winter storm with the intensity of a hurricane, snow measured in feet and blizzard-like conditions will impact major Northeast cities this weekend.

Boston Police Department Used Forfeiture Funds To Hide Purchase Of Surveillance Tech From City Reps

Asset forfeiture is just cops going shopping for things they want. The analogy -- one prompted by statements made by Sean McMurty, the head of a county forfeiture unit in New Jersey -- works on multiple levels. McMurtry encouraged cops to seize...

Boston City Councilors Seek Review of Surveillance Tech Purchase by Police

After a WBUR/ProPublica investigation revealed Boston Police bought spy tech using funds hidden from the public, city legislators called for a review of the transaction.

Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public

Massachusetts police can seize and keep money from drug-related arrests. No one has publicly reported how that money gets spent. A WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that Boston police used over $600,000 of it on a controversial surveillance device.

Does Patent Monetization Promote SSO Participation?

Multi-day iron-air batteries reach commercialization… at one tenth of the cost of lithium

Boston startup Form Energy has secured $200 million Series D funding for the development of what is being called a breakthrough in energy storage.