{"id":1231,"date":"2011-09-08T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2011-09-09T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:20:00","slug":"prof-phillips-tracking-gas-leaks-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/09\/08\/prof-phillips-tracking-gas-leaks-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Phillips tracking gas leaks in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1230\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/09\/phillips.jpg\" alt=\"phillips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/geography\/people\/faculty\/phillips\/\">Nathan Phillips<\/a>, of BU&#8217;s Department of Geography and Environment, coordinator in Spring 2012 of <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc106\">CC106<\/a>, has earned a reputation as a passionate advocate for sustainability. In 2007, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2007\/green-energy-powers-faculty-office\/\">BU Today<\/a> recognized him for maintaining a zero-emissions office, powered by a bicycle generator. This summer, he <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2011-08-17\/news\/29897396_1_gas-leaks-natural-gas-gas-companies\">made headlines in the Boston Globe<\/a> for using a personal cavity ring-down spectrometer to monitor natural gas leaks from his car. Professor Philips began this work in order to document wasted greenhouse gasses that add to the Boston metropolitan area&#8217;s carbon footprint. However, as he explored the Boston area&#8211;he estimates he has covered about 1% of its streets&#8211;he has found several leaks that are significant enough to pose explosion hazards. Professor Phillips&#8217; work comes at a time when the Massachusetts legislature is debating a new law that would require more immediate responses to gas leaks by utilities companies, as concerns grow about the nearly 8 million cubic feet of natural gas that goes unaccounted for in the state each year. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/energy\/2011\/08\/18\/thousands-of-gas-leaks-in-boston-area\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nathan Phillips, of BU&#8217;s Department of Geography and Environment, coordinator in Spring 2012 of CC106, has earned a reputation as a passionate advocate for sustainability. In 2007, BU Today recognized him for maintaining a zero-emissions office, powered by a bicycle generator. This summer, he made headlines in the Boston Globe for using a personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3856,2671],"tags":[257,850,3890,6588,6589,575],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}