🌞 3 Signals to Shine Onward: Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: power & possibilities rising in this week's Sunny Climate News
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Hello, friends. Wishing you all of the fortitude & tenderness, despite, despite, despite. Here’s what I’ve surfaced for you from the quagmire, some Sunny Climate News:
Clean Energy Charges Onward: ⚡ Welcome the +211,350 New Clean Energy Jobs (& Counting!) Fueled by Climate Policy
Climate Action Cascades Onward: 📣 Follow Along as the Green New Deal is Going on Tour Across America
Culture Changes Onward: 📈 There’s a Season for Everything, & Now’s the Time to Shift Futures/Natures/Cultures
1. Clean Energy Progress⚡ Thanks to renewable power, the world’s electricity supply is close to peak emissions
How many jobs is the Inflation Reduction Act spurring? A lot
Cool Tool from ClimateCentral: State Solar and Wind Boom to Bring U.S. Toward Climate Targets
Here is THE BEST new resource for organizing towards true energy justice:
Energy literacy: What is out there to know?
How to sell solar in coal country
Business group estimates several hundred thousand clean energy jobs in EV, battery storage and solar
New solar cell plant will bring 1,200 jobs to southern Indiana
Clean energy, not expanding gas pipeline, is WA's future
Is the least populated state in the nation leading the next US energy transition?
The right is firing misinformation bullets in its climate war on renewables – here’s a way to fight back
Guide to 100% Clean Energy States
Warming up to it: Principles for clean, efficient and smart district heating
Zeroing-in on climate change: Three “super solutions” could put the US on a path toward a net-zero economy by 2050
Electric Plane Tech Takes Off
2. Climate Action Cascades Onward: 📣 The Green New Deal is Going on Tour Across America
“Granted, change will be messy and complicated, fraught with unforeseen challenges and will require policymakers to think deeply about how a green transition can be achieved equitably. But by concentrating our collective efforts on the seemingly Sisyphean task of pushing the boulder over the hill, perhaps positive changes will beget more positive ones, helping us avoid the apocalyptic visions that seem to litter our every day and tipping us into a better tomorrow.”
Climate groups launch national tour for Green New Deal
A Climate Change Exhibit Asks ‘What If We Get It Right?’
Food justice advocates didn’t set out to save the climate: Community fridges tackle both food insecurity and methane emissions
National Academies Report: Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States
Banana fiber sari offers sustainable, biodegradable alternative in Bangladesh
This old-school building material could take over city skylines
To Track Biodiversity, Researchers Are Turning to AI
Pioneering Cambridge AI project finds heat-loss houses
RTC introduces four electric buses into its fleet; cleaner, quieter rides on the horizon
The Power of the Bike Bus
3. Culture Changes Onward: 📈 There’s a Season for Everything & Now’s the Time to Shift Futures/Natures/Cultures
How Much Can the Seasons Bend Before They Break?
Scientists used to avoid phrases like ‘climate crisis.’ Not anymore
Pew study: US Catholics more motivated by climate news than other Americans
Doctors from around the world unite to call for urgent climate action
Honolulu maps out strategy to deal with climate change in new plan
Rich countries should stop pushing fossil fuels on Africa – don’t we deserve a renewable future too?
Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation "catbassadors" for conservation on two Japanese islands
To fight climate change and housing shortage, Austin becomes largest U.S. city to drop parking-spot requirements
As climate talks near, calls mount for a ‘phaseout’ of fossil fuels
45% of people in America want to be seen as someone who buys eco-friendly products – up from 33% in 2013. — Eco Pulse®, 2023 (Global)
Car buyers are more likely to consider an electric vehicle if their neighbors have one: Analyses of new vehicle registrations in 11 cities (called “designated market areas” or DMAs), indicate strong evidence of peer influence on the growth in EV sales.
This new report shows how another person’s influence really matters when it comes to encouraging clean energy behaviors like driving electric:
That’s it for this week! Thanks for keeping onward towards a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚
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.
Last week’s edition:
Climate Poetry Corner
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: