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holly caggiano
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planning for climate equity (PLACE) lab • asst prof UBC SCARP • VWFC fan ⚽ • not rolling my eyes, I have tourette syndrome
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New for @thenarwhal.ca on what Canada has to gain from building out renewable energy

#energysky #greensky #cdnpoli
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At a time when prices are skyrocketing, climate commitments are getting rolled back, and assistance programs are threatened — I hope you'll read about the public utility that almost was and the lessons we learned along the way, so you can win next. climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
End Point or Setback? A Retrospective of the Maine Public Power Ballot Initiative
CCI polling revealed that even following the vote, twice as many Mainers prefer public ownership of energy resources than private ownership.
climateandcommunity.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Report launch day! Check out this project with @cplusc.bsky.social looking back on Maine's public power ballot initiative. Despite a classic case of corporate capture and a loss at the polls, this is a hopeful story that (imo) has a lot to teach us
@smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
What lessons can utility justice and public power advocates draw from this campaign? Read the full report and recommendations to learn more: climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Absolute banger and a set piece assist, Sebastian Berhalter is player of the game 🫡

Throw back to when he brought the Voyageurs cup to our house last year @axilla2.bsky.social

Now for conf semi finals LFG WHITECAPS #VWFC #USMNT
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Berhalter and Reyna out here scoring goals and healing generational trauma... You love to see it #usmnt
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Ooof
So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Another world is possible, if we fight for it
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
attn profs who teach environmental & climate justice! new paper (with @alanarad.bsky.social & An-Min Wu) on using sense of place to communicate EJ/CJ in interdisciplinary classrooms: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#GreenSky #AcademicSky (if you can't access, email me for a PDF)
Using sense of place to communicate actionable environmental and climate justice in interdisciplinary classrooms - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
As global environmental changes disproportionately impact disadvantaged communities, critical research documents subsequent environmental and climate injustices. Communicating these injustices in higher education university classrooms grows increasingly urgent as students are eager to engage with justice issues in professional and personal settings. We identify major challenges for teaching environmental and climate justice within interdisciplinary fields and propose a pedagogical framework based on relational scales of “sense of place” to communicate meaningful and culturally relevant environmental justice topics in university classrooms with multiple dimensions of student diversity. In response to a lack of accessible and tangible pedagogical environmental justice tools across all environmental fields, we highlight practical classroom applications situated at the intersection of individual, community, and place scales. Doing so shows that engaging pedagogical exercises in the sense of place scales can communicate an environmental and climate justice that is not just another academic term, but also an actionable opportunity for students within and beyond classrooms.
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ok but this is really cool
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week.
newatlas.com/energy/large...
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
newatlas.com
August 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Busy people: how do you keep up with your inbox? I auto sort listservs, use folders, set timers, but still spend so much time on email. If I'm behind, it's hard to focus on writing and doing. If I keep up, my day is gone.

Help me escape from the dismal void that is my Outlook and find peace
August 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Defending US democracy: the role of scientists
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Reflecting on the implications of last week's International Court of Justice decision, UBC prof Michael Byers concludes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney"can no longer justify including fossil fuel projects among his infrastructure goals." #cdnpoli #icj
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The International Court of Justice’s statement on fossil fuels puts Carney in a tough spot
An advisory opinion on responsibility for emissions means that Canada could be on the hook for major climate-change-related damages in the years ahead
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
forms.gle
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Say it louder: there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics
Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A very dear friend started a substack to reflect on what it's like to write a dissertation in America right now as a mother & immigrant. I recommend it to anyone struggling to write - she will make you think, laugh, and feel less alone
substack.com/@nyupho
Nuance of being | Substack
Sharing a frustration: from a mom, PhD student, and immigrant with an accent in the U.S.—still unsure where to truly call home, yet constantly juggling too many roles within a 24-hour day.
substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NYC billionaires rn
June 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Let's gooooo New York
smh what does this say if you can't be a shit-ass governor who gets a lot of people killed unnecessarily and sexually harasses a bunch of women and resigns in disgrace and then can't come back a few years later and win an election to run the biggest city in the country, what even are we anymore
June 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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6 million families depend on LIHEAP to keep their heat and AC on. We need MORE lawmakers willing to stand up for hardworking families against utility shutoffs.

Where are the rest of the House and Senate? Families can't wait.

#EnergyAssistance #utilitybills #energy
June 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Cat owner kidnapped by ICE. Cats need a place to land. Can anyone step up? Cats are in the Baltimore area.
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Unsure why you'd even give Cuomo a thought when you could rank @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #1 & Brad Lander #2 🤷‍♀️ NYC don't forget to vote. Tell your friends
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.

While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.

This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM