I've been congratulating myself on that subject header all day, though unless you were in middle school in the 90s and hooked on pop radio, it's probably worse than than mundane. I'll tread lightly with the puns for now, lest I precipitate (ok, ok, sorry) a steep reversal of the 75-fold increase in the number of unique visitors our website received after the first post yesterday (the nice thing about a historical average of 0 visitors per day is that any stat is impressive).

Maybe I've been looking up more often lately, but it suddenly seems like several new renewable energy installations - specifically photovoltaic systems -  have been brought to light in my neighborhood in the past year.  I was curious where they're all located.  I'm a sucker for a good Google map, and I particularly like that the one the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center created is maintained via a green jobs program.  Check it out here

If you live or work in Cambridge and are curious about the general potential generation, energy savings, and financial savings for PV on your roof, the MIT Building Technology Sustainable Design Lab has created an impressive tool to help you answer those questions.  Read more about it here.