Although these posts are usually limited to events closely related to the UN mandate, I wanted to take a moment to recognize my brother, Andrew Knox, who has worked to make his house in Washington the first one, to my knowledge, that has zero net carbon emissions! For a description of how he did it, please click on the link: http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/10/09/the-one-two-punch-for-net-zero-in-dc-home-power-and-carbon-neutral/