World’s biggest “passive house” office buildinghttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-officehttps://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-in-boston-named-worlds-largest-passive-house/DOE’s “Affordable Home Energy Shot” and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administrationhttps://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-utility-bills/Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building materialhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-cement/hat tip Andrew Tobias"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology"https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar-and-storage-reportReport (in German): https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.phpFlood resistant homes from bamboohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/Use https://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywallEditorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and ruralAll electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklynhttps://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/Geos net zero energy community in Coloradohttps://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living-in-the-all-electric-futurehat tip to Jennifer HillJennifer Hill also pointed me toKaupuni Village in Hawaiihttps://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdfLiving Zenith in Utahhttps://livingzenith.com/Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsinhttps://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-communityHillside East in Vermonthttps://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Fasohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

Join us for an online author talk with Sunday Times bestselling writer Sam Knight, as part of our DiscoveReads project! Sam will be talking to us about his career so far and his debut non-fiction book, The Premonitions Bureau, which is one of this year's featured DiscoveReads titles. In 1966, John Barker, a British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this very idea. The Premonitions Bureau is his first book and is a Sunday Times bestseller, chosen as a Book of the Year in the Times, Observer, Telegraph, Irish Times, Stylist and iPaper. Find out more about our DiscoveReads programme.

Martin Odegaard joked that he was “too scared” to repeat his celebrations that followed Arsenal’s crucial win over Liverpool as the in-form Gunners thrashed lowly Sheffield United. The loudest such critic was Liverpool legend and pundit Jamie Carragher, who could not resist teasing Odegaard about those celebrations as he interviewed the player following Arsenal’s demolition of Sheffield United. Story continues“Martin, it was a fantastic performance by yourself and a great win for the team,” Carragher told the Gunners skipper on Sky Sports. “I just didn’t see the photographer on the pitch.”He then joked: “Is he in the dressing room? Are you going to get together?”A laughing Odegaard then responded: “I was waiting for that.

An Israeli army tank moves in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. “We must get more aid into Gaza,” U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday. They said Hamas presented a proposal that mediators would discuss with Israel in the coming days. One of the officials said that mediators would meet Wednesday with the Hamas delegation, which didn’t leave Cairo. Up to 300,000 Palestinians are believed to remain in northern Gaza after Israel ordered the evacuation of the entire region, including Gaza City, in October.

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In the midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. The well-heeled Iran War Lobby in Washington has, in fact, been stridently calling for nothing short of a U.S. invasion of that country, accusing Tehran of complicity in Hamas’s October 7th terrorist attack on Israel. In mid-November, Reuters reported that Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei informed a key Hamas figure, Ismail Haniya, that his country wouldn’t intervene directly in the Gaza war, since Tehran hadn’t been warned about the October 7th attack before it was launched. And after decades of championing the Palestinian cause, Tehran could hardly stand by and do nothing as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. With 94% of Arab poll respondents viewing American policy in the region as “bad,” one thing is clear: For the moment at least, Iran has won the Middle East.

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US president says a ceasefire deal with Israel is in the hands of Hamas, adding that an agreement needs to be reached before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Addressing reporters, Biden said: 'There's an offer out there that's rational... we'll know in a couple of days if it's going to happen.' He added: 'There's got to be a ceasefire because if we get into a circumstance where this continues through Ramadan in Israel and Jerusalem it could be very, very dangerous'

Nate Cohn: “The poll found Donald Trump leading Nikki Haley in the Republican primary, 77% to 20%. That’s pretty good for Mr. Trump, of course, but it’s actually Ms. Haley’s best result in a month. And according to our poll, there’s a simple reason for her strength: Biden voters, who now make up 15% of those who say they will probably vote in the Republican primary. In fact, a near majority of Ms. Haley’s supporters (48% to 31%) say they voted for Mr. Biden in the last election instead of Mr. Trump.”Ed Kilgore: “This finding suggests that many Haley voters are not flippable swing voters Trump would sacrifice, but may instead be 2020 Biden voters who weren’t really on the table for Trump at all, from the get-go. If that is the case, then we shouldn’t view the votes Haley receives in states where non-Republicans can participate as omens of doom for Trump in November.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/05/ice-free-summers-in-arctic-possiblEven if we melt all the sea ice, it's OK because all we'll have to do is to take CO2 out of the atmosphere - how much I don't know, but I presume we'll have stopped putting much more in by then - and then the sea ice will come back in a mere ten years and it will all be OK again. Oh yeah, this is within the next decade potentially. [Post edited 5 Mar 18:00]

George Floyd’s death prompted renewed scrutiny of excited delirium and its origins. The phrase “physiology of black women” ought to have set off alarms all over the place. Yeah, this swarm of dead black women whose bodies are littering the streets…nobody killed them. Williams is now believed to have killed at least 32 black women through asphyxiation. But the idea that excited delirium can give people near-superpowers has been incredibly harmful.

Sir Mark Rowley told the London Policing Board there are hundreds of thousands of men in Britain who are a threat to women and girls and the scale of the problem means it has to be treated as a threat to national security. “The aim nationally should be to treat it as a national security threat like we treat organised crime, like we treat terrorism,” he said. There are a lot of men who are a threat to women and children. “Knowing that a police officer harboured the capacity for such sadistic violence still haunts our city,” he said. It also said that in thousands of cases the relationship between the victim and the offender was not properly recorded.

Manchester City could put out a rotated team for tonight’s Champions League return leg against FC Copenhagen. Only Jack Grealish is a confirmed absentee for the holders but Sunday’s looming title showdown with Liverpool could see a number of regular starters rested. The forward's groin injury is expected to rule him out for the majority of the month, though speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Pep Guardiola confirmed he was unsure when Grealish would return. Guardiola could make a few changes given City's 3-1 advantage on aggregate, so the likes of Julian Alvarez, Oscar Bobb and Rico Lewis could all come in. Predicted Man City XI: Ederson; Lewis, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol; Kovacic, Rodri; Silva, Alvarez, Bobb; HaalandInjuries: GrealishTime and date: 8pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2024Venue: Etihad StadiumTV channel: TNT Sports

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Yet another gang rape in India! A Spanish travel. Blogger and her partner were assaulted by a gang in India . The woman was raped repeatedly by seven men over a period of two hours. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-men-in-india-charged-with-gang-rape-of-spanish-blogger-jjnmbs39fWhy anyone would want to visit a country which has so little respect for women and where the government is either unwilling or unable to do anything about it is beyond me.