🌞 3 Reasons to Celebrate👏Every👏Climate👏Win👏: Sunny Climate News

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"Climate victories are not tidy, but claiming them, even under skies gone sickly orange with wildfire smoke, is vital for building the broad consensus of support for the changes so desperately needed to limit the overheating of the planet." —Chris Turner, The difficult necessity of claiming climate victories

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Happy Monday! Here are 3 Reasons to 👏Celebrate👏Every👏Climate👏Win👏:

1. A Renewable-Beautiful Future is Possible And THAT’s Powerful

2. A Climate-Safe Future Depends on Uplifting Community Achievement

3. A Renewable-Beautiful & Climate-Safe Future Needs You AND Your Joy

And here’s a playlist I made for you based on the blog theme:

And here’s your Sunny Climate News, tools, & resources, to go with it:

Climate Revolution Now artwork by Brucu Koleli for the Climate Resilience Project. Check out their new book Climate Resilience: “Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care that invests in place-based, community-led projects”

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1. A Renewable-Beautiful Future is Possible And THAT’s Powerful

EIA: More solar is getting added to the US electric grid in 2023 than ever before, more than DOUBLING its single year installation record, installing about 38 GigaWatts; but we have GOT to get off gas & push the decarbonization bike pedal to the sustainable metal

Midjourney-made blend of photos from by Pixabay from Pexels + Ian Stauffer from Unsplash

BloombergNEF: Global new investment in renewable energy skyrocketed to a record-breaking $358 billion in the first six months of 2023, a 22% rise compared to the start of last year

PVXChange: Solar costs keep dropping— the price of solar modules reached a record low of 17.1 cents per watt in Jul

BloombergNEF: The world will install 392 GW of solar in 2023. That is about 9.5× more than global installations in 2013. Renewable Energy globally will never add less than 500 GW per year for decades— with our first One TeraWatt year is nearin

IEA:Newly installed solar PV & wind capacity is set to save consumers in the European Union €100 billion from 2021-2023. Wholesale electricity prices in Europe would have been 8% higher last year without the additional renewable capacity

Rhode Island and Connecticut’s First Utility-Scale Offshore Wind Farm Enters Construction (Photo by Nicholas Doherty on Unsplash)

Purpose-Driven Clean Energy: More than 60% of US businesses want clean energy that makes a better impact on the world. From new research from the Clean Energy Buyers Institute in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy and Bain & Company

The Hill: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law could save Americans up to $38 billion on electricity costs over the remainder of the decade, the Energy Department projected

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2. A Climate-Safe Future Depends on Uplifting Community Achievement

We need to see and share more models for citizen action and democratic engagement to protect our climate: Ecuadorians Vote to “Keep the Oil in the Soil" rejecting oil drilling in the Amazon, & ending operations in a protected area

Ecuadorians have chosen to safeguard the biodiverse Yasuní National Park from oil drilling, marking a major triumph for grassroots Indigenous and environmental activists against the fossil fuel consensus.

Free E-book: Nature-Based Solutions for Cities

Scientific American: As Heat Waves Roast Texas, Batteries Keep Power Grid Humming

WESA: 7 years ago, a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed. Now a new study finds that nearby residents’ ER visits for heart issues immediately fell by 42%; a huge drop that increased even further, to 61%, over the next few years

Wired: Transforming coal-to-solar Glow-Ups are getting planned across-the-world through climate-financing— like here, in South Africa

Energy Transition Partnerships: An opportunity to leapfrog from coal to clean energy

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3. A Renewable-Beautiful & Climate-Safe Future Needs You AND Your Joy

Minnesota State Fair Crop Art Pride Flag

Electrifying our communities are a way to save money, improve indoor air quality by polluting fuels out of the house, and cut carbon emissions. In Rewiring America’s free handbook, “Electrify Everything in your Home,” they list 10 practical steps you can take and advocate for expanded access, from getting renewable energy to switching from methane gas appliances to electric ones.

A painting by Diane Burko entitled “Summer Heat, 2020” depicts red, orange and blue motifs of wildfires and melting glaciers that overlap with maps that appear to drip over a graph of global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has shown that combining climate data with visually engrossing art can make data more meaningful to viewers and bridge political divides related to climate science. Painting by Diane Burko

NexusMediaNews— Swimmable Cities Are a Climate Solution: Amid scorching heat, cities around the world are rethinking access to waterways.

This is Climate: Women Leading the Charge— Hear from women who are reshaping climate leadership around the world as diplomats, policymakers, scientists and activists on the frontlines. Register Here

✊CLIMATE VICTORY! The 16 young Montanans in Held v. State of Montana - the first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit to go to trial in the U.S. - have won! On Augut 14, 2023, Judge Kathy Seeley in the First Judicial District Court of Montana ruled wholly in favor of the youth plaintiffs.

Let’s Keep Onward: Join a New Youth-Led Climate Lawsuit in California!

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That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to plug-in for a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚

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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.

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Last week’s edition:

Victory in Youth-led Climate Lawsuit Held v. State of Montana!

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Climate Resilience Project on Instagram: “Meet CLIMATE RESILIENCE’s incredible contributors: Amee Raval | Casey Camp-Horinek | Cassia Herron | Cate Mingoya-Lafortune | Ceci Pineda | Crystal Huang | Deseree Fontenot | Didi Pershouse | Dominique Thomas | Doria Robinson | Eileen V. Quigley | Eve Mosher | Heather Rosenberg | Irfan Jetha Noorani | Jacqueline Thanh | Janelle St. John | Kailea Frederick | Kavaangsaar Afcan | Lil Milagro Henriquez | Mara Ventura | Marcie Roth | Margo Robbins | Mariama White-Hammond | Marta Ceroni | Melissa Reyes | Mindy Blank | Miriam Belblidia | Moji Igun | Morgan Curtis | Natalie Hernandez | Niria Alicia | Olivia Juarez | Patty Berne | Ruth Miller | Sekita Grant | Selin Nurgun | Shirell Parfait-Dardar | Sona Mohnot | Victoria Montaño Their brilliant essays will be available to read in Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back against Climate Change this August 1, available for preorder now! P.S. it has been such a joy collaborating with the phenomenal @marbertran, who illustrated portraits of each of the book’s contributors and effortlessly captured some of the themes and motifs woven into their essays. Thank you Mar!”

August 27, 2023

“Summer, You” By Danielle Legros Georges

"We should be in love and never stop fighting to make the world a better place." — The Great Transition, by Nick Fuller Googins