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Lover of clean air & water. Working for an equitable energy transition. Grow food. Limit snark.
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Anyone on here live in Brooklyn and participate in Con Ed's "Smart usage partner" program? (basically a demand response program)? Curious which partner you went with and about your experience!
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In light of policy arguments over the cost of climate action, a trio of economists ask: how much is climate change costing Americans right now? heatmap.news/economy/clim...
Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
heatmap.news
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Between July 2024 and June 2025, the Southeast continued to experience record-setting growth in EV sales, with Florida leading the charge ⚡ To see how your state performed, check out our “Transportation Electrification in the Southeast” report: bit.ly/SACEETReport25 🔌💡
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The end of coal in California ⬇️
Something to be thankful for!

Utah's largest coal-fired power plant—the Intermountain Power Project, located in the west desert near Delta and serving southern California—stopped burning coal at mid-day on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving. 🔌💡
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Welcome to another day where the failures of the dominant system are apparent & existentially threatening but the infrastructure of life sustaining societies is fragile or yet to be created. Keeping building anyway. And give yourself some grace for the contradictions inherent in this stage of things
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ICYMI a chance to preserve educational / interpretive info that matters…
National Parks, Smithsonian Museums, etc:
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
Sister Projects
Sister Projects
sites.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of
new power globally came from
#cleanenergy sources.

🔌💡 Announced in July: solar
power is now on average 41%
cheaper than fossil fuels.

Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day
September 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“domination wears many masks,” writes John Seed journal.workthatreconnects.org/2025/09/29/r...
@workthatreconnects.bsky.social via latest Deep Times Journal
Book Review: Coming Together in the Great Turning | Deep Times Journal
journal.workthatreconnects.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
⬇️ This!
Some poles-and-wires spending is necessary, but much isn't. Alternatives such as distributed batteries, more efficient building envelopes, and virtual power plants - using software to coordinate e.g. smart thermostats with smart electric vehicle charging - can deliver similar results at lower cost.
September 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Why are electric bills so high? If your monopoly utility spends $10 million on wires and transformers, your state will let them increase prices to recover the $10M plus ~$1M per year, every year for the foreseeable future. You and your neighbors will pay ~$35M for ~$10M of infrastructure.
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
September 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Extreme summer heat is our new reality - an intensifying crisis straining health, infrastructure, and wallets.

”when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept the power on: it was clean energy”
🔌💡
www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...
How clean energy met the moment in the New England summer of 2025 (Viewpoint)
This summer proved that renewables aren’t just a future promise; they are already delivering reliable, affordable, and resilient power when New England needs it most.
www.masslive.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of
new power globally came from
#cleanenergy sources.

🔌💡 Announced in July: solar
power is now on average 41%
cheaper than fossil fuels.

Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day
September 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR.

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
September 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help.

One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Sep 25
In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.
8 walking and biking safety tips that just might save your life
In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.
n.pr
September 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
⬇️ Connect the dots, people — ! yes:
What happens due to vaccine schedules and medical guidance about medications is also a transportation and land use issue.
Separating shots this way means more medical visits. Which means parents (usually moms) will have to take more time off from paid work, both for the visits and for the fevers that often follow kid shots. Particularly if they can't use Tylenol to manage fevers the next day.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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This will likely be excellent 🔌💡
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ISO New England will host a free public webinar this month detailing findings from its latest economic study, New England’s Evolving Grid, which models how the grid of the future might meet state emissions policy goals reliably and cost-effectively.

Learn more: bit.ly/4pRjvLs

🔌💡
Webinar will explore findings from ISO-NE’s recent report, New England’s Evolving Grid  - ISO Newswire
The webinar will take place Monday, Sept. 29, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
ht / @ketanjoshi.co for elevating the plagiarism & thievery.
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This will likely be excellent 🔌💡
⬇️
ISO New England will host a free public webinar this month detailing findings from its latest economic study, New England’s Evolving Grid, which models how the grid of the future might meet state emissions policy goals reliably and cost-effectively.

Learn more: bit.ly/4pRjvLs

🔌💡
Webinar will explore findings from ISO-NE’s recent report, New England’s Evolving Grid  - ISO Newswire
The webinar will take place Monday, Sept. 29, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Extreme summer heat is our new reality - an intensifying crisis straining health, infrastructure, and wallets.

”when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept the power on: it was clean energy”
🔌💡
www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...
How clean energy met the moment in the New England summer of 2025 (Viewpoint)
This summer proved that renewables aren’t just a future promise; they are already delivering reliable, affordable, and resilient power when New England needs it most.
www.masslive.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Research - The drying of the Ganga river, of great economic and cultural importance to millions of people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, is “unprecedented in the last 1,300 years”

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The House GOP Judiciary Committee witness is dead wrong about "one state" setting AI standards. A blanket AI moratorium is a blank check for Big Tech that undermines laws in ALL 50 STATES. Learn more about which laws would be impacted. Read @publiccitizen.bsky.socialanalysis here.
New Analysis: List of State AI and Tech Protections Impacted by Cruz Moratorium - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Public Citizen is releasing a preliminary analysis of state consumer, worker, and public safety protections that would be voided under…
www.citizen.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Amazing work from former climate.gov staff. The Fifth National Climate Assessment is accessible again online!
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏

This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
September 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM