Marshall Kirkpatrick
@marshallk.bsky.social
Climate action consultant http://earthcatalyst.co/
Look at the roots on that prairie grass!
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Look at the roots on that prairie grass!
These floating solar panels move in the wind and capture sun both directly and reflecting off the water. Cool! www.designboom.com/technology/f...
October 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
These floating solar panels move in the wind and capture sun both directly and reflecting off the water. Cool! www.designboom.com/technology/f...
Rationing just fuel and electricity, argues @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, could get us out of this climate mess and be far less statist than many other potential solutions.
September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Rationing just fuel and electricity, argues @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, could get us out of this climate mess and be far less statist than many other potential solutions.
“OPML as civic infrastructure.” Yes!
September 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“OPML as civic infrastructure.” Yes!
Don’t panic, that’s what actuaries at insurance firms are for.
And they are freaking out.
Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say: bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... via Buckminster Fuller Institute
And they are freaking out.
Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say: bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... via Buckminster Fuller Institute
July 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Don’t panic, that’s what actuaries at insurance firms are for.
And they are freaking out.
Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say: bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... via Buckminster Fuller Institute
And they are freaking out.
Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say: bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... via Buckminster Fuller Institute
New report out from SPUN: The Society for Protection of Underground Networks
"Fungal communities underground support 80% of land plants & store 13 billion tons of carbon annually. But new research [finds] few concentrations of the vital fungi are protected."
insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...
"Fungal communities underground support 80% of land plants & store 13 billion tons of carbon annually. But new research [finds] few concentrations of the vital fungi are protected."
insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...
July 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New report out from SPUN: The Society for Protection of Underground Networks
"Fungal communities underground support 80% of land plants & store 13 billion tons of carbon annually. But new research [finds] few concentrations of the vital fungi are protected."
insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...
"Fungal communities underground support 80% of land plants & store 13 billion tons of carbon annually. But new research [finds] few concentrations of the vital fungi are protected."
insideclimatenews.org/news/2307202...
“Each child is indeed the best thing ever to happen to the universe.”
July 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Each child is indeed the best thing ever to happen to the universe.”
Imagine that: British education from 1945-1965 reoriented state education “around principles of equality and social justice rather than meritocracy and social mobility…” Amazing! After a major report finding a majority suffering “squalor, want, ignorance, idleness & disease”
July 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Imagine that: British education from 1945-1965 reoriented state education “around principles of equality and social justice rather than meritocracy and social mobility…” Amazing! After a major report finding a majority suffering “squalor, want, ignorance, idleness & disease”
Remember this image?
June 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Remember this image?
Saturday AM reading!
June 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Saturday AM reading!
Canadian anti-net-zero organization using a Custom GPT to pump out tons of "reasonable" sounding letters to city counselors. Awful, but predictable. What can be done? For one thing, ChatGPT will tell you it's inaccurate
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a... by @rorywh.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a... by @rorywh.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Canadian anti-net-zero organization using a Custom GPT to pump out tons of "reasonable" sounding letters to city counselors. Awful, but predictable. What can be done? For one thing, ChatGPT will tell you it's inaccurate
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a... by @rorywh.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a... by @rorywh.bsky.social
I don't know, I tossed the screenshot into ChatGPT and just said "evaluate these claims" and it tore them apart, so perhaps this is a new addition to media literacy that's required. chatgpt.com/share/683799...
May 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I don't know, I tossed the screenshot into ChatGPT and just said "evaluate these claims" and it tore them apart, so perhaps this is a new addition to media literacy that's required. chatgpt.com/share/683799...
Why is Hollywood where the movies got made? I just learned that a major factor was that Thomas Edison aggressively pushed law enforcement of his film tech patents & expensive, controlling licenses. So outlaw film makers liked Hollywood because they could hide from the cops in Mexico when needed!
April 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Why is Hollywood where the movies got made? I just learned that a major factor was that Thomas Edison aggressively pushed law enforcement of his film tech patents & expensive, controlling licenses. So outlaw film makers liked Hollywood because they could hide from the cops in Mexico when needed!
Terrifying data, look at that Latin America number
April 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Terrifying data, look at that Latin America number
I'm not the one who said "dagger through the heart!" That was the head of the EPA.
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate the relationship between the new head of the EPA & a community of faith leaders responding to him today. I think it has a certain hopefulness to it. www.earthcatalyst.co/post/communi...
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate the relationship between the new head of the EPA & a community of faith leaders responding to him today. I think it has a certain hopefulness to it. www.earthcatalyst.co/post/communi...
March 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'm not the one who said "dagger through the heart!" That was the head of the EPA.
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate the relationship between the new head of the EPA & a community of faith leaders responding to him today. I think it has a certain hopefulness to it. www.earthcatalyst.co/post/communi...
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate the relationship between the new head of the EPA & a community of faith leaders responding to him today. I think it has a certain hopefulness to it. www.earthcatalyst.co/post/communi...
Squirrel sauna: sunlight sends steam off a wet fence.
March 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Squirrel sauna: sunlight sends steam off a wet fence.
Ok solar and wind, you’ve passed coal. Good work. Now for an even bigger challenge: you’ve got to replace runaway growth of gas burning power production. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
March 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ok solar and wind, you’ve passed coal. Good work. Now for an even bigger challenge: you’ve got to replace runaway growth of gas burning power production. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Europe is different. Fail to comply with the Corporate Sustainability Directive (CSRD) or the Non-financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and they will send company directors to JAIL.
February 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Europe is different. Fail to comply with the Corporate Sustainability Directive (CSRD) or the Non-financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and they will send company directors to JAIL.
Guess which country first called for international agreements on information warfare!? Remarkable. www.usafa.edu/app/uploads/... (PDF from the US Air Force Academy)
February 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Guess which country first called for international agreements on information warfare!? Remarkable. www.usafa.edu/app/uploads/... (PDF from the US Air Force Academy)
Tapestry cross-platform mobile social app is pretty awesome!
February 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Tapestry cross-platform mobile social app is pretty awesome!
It’s all hands on deck! 1.75C in January! Everybody team up and do the most high leverage stuff we can!
February 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s all hands on deck! 1.75C in January! Everybody team up and do the most high leverage stuff we can!
Woke up thinking about my socialized tendency to play nice, even if boring. Now seems like the time for at *least* being pretty damn assertive. Freaking out won’t help, but it would be a fair reaction.
February 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Woke up thinking about my socialized tendency to play nice, even if boring. Now seems like the time for at *least* being pretty damn assertive. Freaking out won’t help, but it would be a fair reaction.
