🌞 3 Good Parts Giving: Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: power & possibilities rising in this week's Sunny Climate News
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Hello climate-marchers, world-shakers, & changemakers! Here’s you climate headline goodness:
The Good Bright
The Good Cheer
The Good Solar
1. The Good Bright
From Pixels to Politics: How Video Games Can Inspire a Green New World
This guide can help you save money and fight climate change
One Simple Change to Reduce Your Climate Impact? Swap Out Beef
Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds
City of Chicago sues oil companies, accuses them of deception about products' climate dangers
8 states move to ban utilities from using customer money for lobbying
Surprising Solidarity in the Fight for Clean Water and Justice on O’ahu
2. The Good Cheer
400 US Farmers Enlisted In New Rural Wind Power Smackdown
The EV shift could prevent millions of childhood asthma attacks
Switching to electric vehicles would be fantastic for kids’ health / Fewer asthma attacks, less bronchitis, and healthier lives for millions of kids.
Clean energy tech slowed down growth of global carbon emissions in 2023, IEA says
How Utility Regulators Can Unlock $12.7 Billion in Annual Savings for Customers
how solar farms benefit bees and butterflies
3. The Good Solar
Texas just got an enormous 1.1-million-panel solar farm
Could Solar Power Become America’s Leading Electricity Source?
Italy is putting a big hybrid floating solar–floating wind farm in the sea
USA will smash its solar deployment record in 2024, installing ~46 GW! That is 5X solar installed in 2019 and nearly double 2022 level. US solar additions:
2019 9GW
2020 15GW
2021 19GW
2022 18GW
2023 26GW
2024 ~46GW
India looks to rooftop solar to provide ‘free electricity’ for up to 10 million homes
French Firms Trade US Tax Credits to Spur Renewable Projects
NEW STUDY REVEALS UNEXPECTED BENEFIT OF SOLAR FARMS — HERE’S WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR FARMERS
Clean energy isn't just about sustainability—it's about competitiveness: The 2024 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook reveals record-breaking investments driving economic growth, job creation, and resilience.
That’s it for now! Thanks for keeping onward to a more beautiful-renewable world. 💚