🌞 3 Clean Energy Vibes to Electrify Your Future: Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: immaculate climate & clean energy vibes are on the way with impactful action
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: On the Horizon
1. Shine Your Solar Glow-Up
eight countries have already grown solar and wind generation faster than what’s needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C, proving that a rapid transition to renewable energy is possible.
Renewables surprisingly "on track" to meet net zero by 2050 | Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it’s closing a New England power plant | Minnesota community solar projects are about to get bigger and more far-flung | Tapping into DOE’s $250B of loan authority for projects that reinvest in US clean energy infrastructure | DOE announces $45 million for pilot manufacturing of solar components | Federal Policies Are Fueling An American Clean Energy Jobs And Investment Boom | New Analysis Shows Renewable Deployment Surge Outpacing Net-Zero Forecasts
2. Keep it Clean Energy Cool
Extreme heat is ramping up all over the world. So are solutions | Solar, wind energy keeping Texas power grids running amid weekslong heat wave | Too much heat, too few "chief heat officers" | How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves | Extreme heat prompts first-ever Amazon delivery driver strike | Can mobile batteries make dirty diesel generators obsolete? | What you need to know about staying safe, cool, power grid conditions | What to Do with Climate Emotions | weACT Community Cooling Workshop THIS WEEK | Check out the extreme heat agenda:
3. Change Yourself to Change the World
As East Harlem Waits for Infrastructure Projects to Mitigate Flood Risk, Residents Are Creating Their Own Solutions | More Indigenous and local communities are getting land back | Repairing the Roads That Were Built to Divide | The Farm Bill could address climate change and structural racism | The EPA’s plan to eliminate lead in buildings is a ‘gigantic leap forward’ for public health | Biden administration announces $660 million to plug abandoned wells | Hawai’i will be first state to install federally-funded EV chargers, with others soon to follow | Pilot project uses volcanic ash to make cement | Recalibrating the Culture of the Climate Crisis—How Stories Shape our Future