🌞 3 Reasons to Smile While Fighting Fossil Fools: Sunny Climate News
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🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: On the Horizon
🗣️ Quote-ovoltaic Climate Power: “One day I truly believe that everyone will talk about climate change and the world will be full of projects designed to improve life for us all” —Isaias Hernandez (@queerbrownvegan), profiled in CleanChoice Energy’s LGBTQ+ Climate Voices to Follow
1. People Reclaiming Renewable Powers
Frustrated by outdated grids, consumers are lobbying for control of their electricity | 1900 Amazon Employees Walk Out to Fight Back-to-Office Policy and Climate Change | Meet the women working to grow local food systems on U.S. island territories | One pastor’s mission to prepare his community for climate change | More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague | University of Pennsylvania: students organizing over climate, housing are arrested at homecoming | New green job training prepares future Philly workers for climate transition | One key step is to ensure the voices of those most affected by environmental harm are front and center in any discussion of environmental justice. | A Path-breaking Innovation in Climate Journalism
2. Change is Change is Change is in You
How to Save Energy During the Summer | New Bedford once lit the world with whale oil. Now it wants to do the same with wind power | A May 2023 study found that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would save billions from dangerously hot climates. | We looked at 1,200 possibilities for the planet’s future. These are our best hope. | Insurance firms need more climate change information. Scientists say they can help | University investment funds urge ‘bold action’ to stop new fossil fuel projects | Students and climate activists push local universities to fully cut ties from fossil fuel industry | Save With Every Sunrise: How Community Solar Helps You Save For What Matters |Hoboken Lodges First State-Level Racketeering Charge in Big Oil Climate Lawsuit | The way the world worked together saved the Ozone Layer is helping slow Climate Change
“There’s this sort of poetic coming-about for New Bedford as a center of energy,” said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell. “We eschew all those victimhood labels. So to become a leader in offshore wind, to compete successfully for investment and to grow, it was really an opportunity for us, for our residents, to see our city in a different way, for the rest of the world to see our city in a different way.”
3. Clean Energy’s Super-Charged Power-Up
Siemens energy orders ‘overflowing’ as green shift gains speed | Hyundai and LG announce $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to build batteries for electric vehicles | After more than 15 years, the nation’s largest clean energy transmission project has been given the green light | Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in past year than England | Mechanical sails? Batteries? Shippers forming ‘green corridors’ to fast-track cleaner technologies | Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition | US battery storage capacity increased by 52% year over year, to 10.8 GW by the end of Q1 | This new training program will put people to work as heat-pump installers | Solar investment set to overtake oil production and attract over $1 billion a day in 2023, IEA says | Multiplying Solar and Battery Factories Put Net Zero in Closer Reach | US wind manufacturing makes a comeback thanks to Inflation Reduction Act
Save nature, nourish pollinators, lower costs, protect people, make progress, reduce pollution, clear-up skin, unpoison wells, breathe easier, fortify resilience, grow crops, harvest revenue, recharge groundwater, sequester carbon, prevent erosion, etcetera etcetera as this emphasizes, the list goes on— Is There Anything ‘Solar Meadows’ Can’t Do?
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Climate ACTION:
EPA: We have just a short window of time to speak up and tell EPA to rapidly pass the strongest possible power plant rules, so add your name now.
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Climate Culture Corner
Strange, unpredictable, and energizing: Dark comedy as climate solution
Check out this new climate comedy webseries about from PiqueAction: Unfucking the Planet
And here’s a delicious pastry for you (or, at least the sprinkled halves…)
🧭 Cool Climate Tool: ClimateCentral’s 2023 Summer Package
Map Summer Warming Across the US
Chart the Increase in Number of Warmer Summer Days