March 11, 2010 

Hacked

We've been hacked with fake email and even Facebook chat. Ignore any messages purporting to be from Ken or Andrée in trouble (well, no more than usual, anyway). Ken has not been mugged in London, but if he had, it's good to know family & friends would be there....

Update on JP Green House soon, we're still in last minute construction frenzy. 

JP Green House Slideshow 

Photographer Leisa Jones has been documenting our project. See the slide show of some her best shots running on Grist. More of Liese's photographs may be seen on her gallery page.

It seemed like I had just fallen asleep in my bivvy on the hard soil of the Boston Common on Sunday night, when I was rudely awakened around 1:00 a.m. by the voice of Craig Altemose, founder and driving force behind the Massachusetts Leadership Campaign, crackling through a bullhorn: “Wake up everybody. The police are here and they have given us a two-minute warning. If you do not want to be cited for trespassing, you need to move immediately off the Common.”

One hundred and fifty students and community supporters gathered for the third time to sleep out the Common, a weekly focal point for dozens of on-campus sleep-outs that began the day after 350.org’s Oct. 24 Day of Climate Action. This Sunday we were joined by Dr. James Hansen, whose crumpled porkpie hat I picked out of the crowd as students and community supporters stumbled out, bleary-eyed, of the 44 tents pitched directly across Beacon Street from the Massachusetts State House. Continue to full Grist post.

Leadership Campaign tents on Boston Commons (above) & Changing facade of the JP Green House, Jan-November, 2009 (below).

Special JP Green House series on Grist.org

We'll be chronicling our work to rehab the old Jack's store on a 6 month timeline to meet Boston Building Code and passivhaus standard before our dwindling construction fund runs out, and musing about life, love & kids in a time  climate cataclysm – plus Ken's climate campaigning commentary.

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