🌞 3 Sunny Climate Truths: to Power Your World With Renewable Energy

🗞️ EXTRA, extra: another world is possible! Let THAT truth be told

🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: On the Horizon

A new dawn spreads like winds through a windfarm (Image Credit: Photo by Nimesh Makwana on Unsplash)

🗣️ Quote-ovoltaic Climate Power: So, to recap, to prevent climate mental health challenges, think of: “Do a favor, work with neighbors” 

And to treat climate mental health challenges in ways that can spread, think: “Peer-sharing for scalable caring” — Dr. Britt Wray in a speech to the World Economic Forum

1. Powershift Your Mindset: We Don’t Need Unjust, Toxic, Climate-Disrupting Fossil Fuels to Power Our World

Earth saw hottest day yet Thursday, the fourth straight global record | NEW STUDY: Potent greenhouse gas (nitrous oxide) produced by industry could be readily abated with existing technologies | Oregon county sues oil, coal companies for $51 billion over deadly heat dome | Meet the youth suing Montana for not protecting them from climate change | Exxon and Chevron are getting sued by a county in Oregon for their role in climate change | Top Entertainment Leaders Come Together to Develop Zero-Emissions Power Through Clean Mobile Power Initiative | How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

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2. Everything’s Bigger: like in Texas, Everything’s Brighter, too with Clean Energy

It’s official: we're in a clean energy boom. ⚡🔌🔋 Clean energy jobs grew in every state last year, with the U.S. adding nearly 114K clean energy jobs to the economy in 2022.

Chart: Which states have the most solar and wind power jobs?

Clean energy technologies, including solar and wind, accounted for nearly 87 percent of net new electric power generation jobs in the U.S. last year.

Renewable energy is one of the fastest-growing employers in the United States, and the states leading the way in clean energy deployment — California and Texas — are also in first place for wind and solar jobs.

A key piece of the solar supply chain will now be made in America | The US’ billion-dollar EV bus program can’t keep up with demand | How sheep keep solar farms out of the shade | Solar powers ahead with hopes of a renewables record for solstice month | A Texas Family Passed Up Millions to Turn Their Ranch Into a Nature Preserve | Climate Change Made the Texas Heat Wave More Intense. Renewables Softened the Blow | Local solar and storage are essential to the electrification movement | Right-to-charge laws bring the promise of EVs to apartments, condos and rentals | EPA launches $7 billion program to bring solar to low-income households

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3. We Have the Solutions: You are the Hero You’ve Been Waiting For

The hero of the Anthropocene has 8 billion faces — one of them is yours | Here are 4 better ways to use your air conditioner for energy and cost | Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns) | ‘The result was amazing’: one man’s mission to reforest a barren Irish hillside | Actually, your neighbors really do care about climate | ‘The arts make us see possibilities that nothing else does’: Inside America’s first climate museum | A community leader on why aid work is necessary to build climate resilience

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Thanks for plugging-in & all you do! For tomorrow, today— the future thanks you, too.

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🌞 3 Sunny Climate To-Dos: Aligning with Sunny Climate News

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Poem Starting at the Ending of Tears of the Kingdom

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” ―Arundhati Roy