Articles by Patrick Mazza
Patrick Mazza is an independent journalist-researcher-activist focused on climate and global sustainability. He was formerly research director at Climate Solutions, and a founder of the group. Currently he serves as a member of 350 Seattle's governing hub and co-facilitator of its Sustainable Solutions Workgroup. His blog is Cascadia Planet.
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Super Bowl blackout makes the case for smart microgrids
More than just a symbol of America’s decaying infrastructure, the Super Bowl blackout showed the vulnerabilities of a centralized power grid.
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Clean energy conference weathers blackout with microgrid
Waking up in my hotel room across the street from the 13th annual Harvesting Clean Energy Conference Monday, I hit the light switch. Nothing. I try a few other switches […]
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The carbon math – Western US ecosystems capacity to store carbon in future depends on emissions reductions now
How much carbon is stored in natural systems of the continental western US? Over coming decades, how much of the fossil fuel carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere […]