🌞 3 Poetic Affirmations I’m Always Quoting to Brighten Your Day: with Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: poetic climate & clean energy vibes are radiating renewable— with your aid
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Another World is Possible: & on the Horizon
The vibes are all over this week— jumping in Summer’s sun like electrons on silicon. So here are 3 lines of poetry for you that keep me going—leaping into new futures we create:
“Joy is not made to be a crumb.” —Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”
“You must change your life.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
“You could make this place beautiful.” —Maggie Smith, “Good Bones”
And here’s how they shine with this week’s sunny climate news:
1. Like Renewable Energy“Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
🌬️🌊⚡ Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped
🌬️🌊⚡ The largest offshore wind farm in the world
2. Like Climate Changes “You must change your life.”
🗣️🌀🌡️ How to talk about climate change during extreme weather events
🏭📉🫁 “Reducing our dependence on coal and fossil fuels will bring huge health benefits and they’re immediate and they’re local, just as we see in this,”
🥵💦🌇 Meteorologist Names 2023 US Heatwaves After Oil, Gas Companies: Amoco, BP, Chevron
3. Like Our World “You could make this place beautiful.”
🌍🌎🌏 Responses to Dear Earth Art Project: The weight of the world often feels heavy on my heart and soul, but when I am weighed down by the realities of this world I am pulled closer to you. To keep hold of a heart that is as soft and as fertile as soil is to know you. —Mikaela Loach
That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to affirm the world’s natural poetry in you: beautiful & renewable. 💚
Stay clean-energy-cool & plugged-in:
Let us know what brightness you’re up-to beautifying our world!
Finally—THANK YOU, for all you do! For tomorrow, today— the future thanks you, too.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”