๐ Brightening Our Future: Sunny Climate News
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EXTRA, Extraโ Sunny Climate News: On the Horizon
๐ฃ๏ธ Quote-ovoltaic Climate Power: โNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.โ โJames Baldwin
1. With Climate Action, We Can Be Heroes
Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners (MORE on this year's heroes below) | Meals on Wheels Is a Climate-Relief Model | Florida Youth Activism, From โDonโt Say Gayโ to Parkland to Dream Defenders | In โCancer Alley,โ a teacher called to fight | Sustainability power player: the earth stewardess, Doria Brown, is bridging the gap between environmentalism and social justice | Pollution harms people of color the most. How Biden's new office plans to change that. | The New Era of Social Media Is Shaking Up Climate Activism. Hereโs How. | From Farmworkers to Land Healers | Drop the โNaturalโ in Natural Gas, Climate Activists Urge US Officials | Sustainability power player: Why climate activist Jerome Foster II uses his voice for the marginalized | Philadelphia residents have planted more than 1,000 trees in eight years in the Hunting Park neighborhood | The Supreme Court just unleashed a flood of lawsuits against Big Oil | 8 Black Environmentalists Working To Protect and Preserve The Plant | Generational and Cultural Change is Stimulating Environmental Sustainability
2. Climate Solution Paths to Drawdown Pollution
The Drawdown Roadmap | Better Bus Systems Could Slow Climate Change | Can zero-emission electric school buses improve attendance? New data may have the answer | The US Inflation Reduction Act can spur a green race to the top | Role-playing game helps Colorado students plan for climate change hazards | SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative aims to make investing in clean energy accessible to all | Airbnb will help some hosts pay for new heat pumps | Heatpumps need better branding | A huge new clean energy transmission line gets the green light | Clean energy investments skyrocketing | Avangrid and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority begin a historic partnership to bring renewable power to reservation | Why Induction Stoves Might Be the Best Option for Your Kitchen | Where air pollution is improving โ and where it's worsening | Unlocking Indigenous energy | Meet Mr. Trash Wheel, a champion for the end of single-use plastics
3. Booming Renewables: A Big (Clean Energy) Deal
Firm that sells clean energy to consumers gets $100-million boost | providing more customers with access to locally-generated renewable energy | Staggering Boom in Renewables Seen in US by 2030, BNEF Predicts | Small Towns Chase Americaโs $3 Trillion Climate Gold Rush | US invests in alternative solar tech, more solar for renters | Climate pledge mobilizes $120M to focus on environmental justice | Why Investing in Climate Action During a Recession Is a Smart Business Move | Floating wind power gains traction but can it set sail? | US Energy Loans Deliver โRidiculously Goodโ Returns | European countries pledge huge expansion of North Sea wind farms | Oceans of Energy startup to build solar array at North Sea wind farm
โIโll be honest, I have no idea what a gigawatt-hour is,โ Colleton County Council Chairman Steven D. Murdaugh told local leaders at a February groundbreaking at a new battery factory. โBut I do know what a $279 million investment will do for our county, and I know what impact 575 jobs will have on our community.โ
โYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.โ โ Pablo Neruda
What brightness are you glinting out there in the wide wonderful world? Let me know!
I appreciate you catching up on sunny climate news here. Thanks for all you for do! For a more beautiful tomorrow, todayโ the future thanks you, too.
๐ง Harmonize & Decarbonize with Climate Culture
Hereโs a ๐ playlist collaboratively compiled by participants in the Feminine Climate Leadership Coaching Group, a workshop from the All We Can Save project: ๐ถ Feminine Climate Leadership
๐งญ 3 Cool Climate Tools for You to Use:
๐บ๏ธ Government Climate Resilience Mapping: for Resilience and Adaptation. Knowing which hazards could harm the things you care about is the first step in protecting them. This portal can help you understand what climate-related hazards you face, now and in the future.
โก Hereโs a quick & easy Electrify Your Life journey toolkit from the Climate Reality Project to help more learn about & leverage the IRA. Not really all that applicable for all people, people in apartments for example (like me). GO deeper with Mother Jonesโ package of IRA coverage: Electrify Everything
๐ง๏ธ Rising Hourly Rainfall Intensity from Climate Central: Climate change is supercharging the water cycle, bringing heavier rainfall extremesโand related flood risksโacross the U.S.
Shine Bright like: Your 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Six activists from around the world were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, often known as the "Green Nobel Prize," on Monday. Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a leader of the Munduruku Indigenous people in the Amazon, successfully fought off British mining company Anglo American's attempts to mine Indigenous land and her ancestral home. Zambian community organizer Chilekwa Mumba won a six-year legal campaign ultimately holding the UK parent company of a local subsidiary accountable for the pollution it released into local drinking water. Delima Silalahi led an effort that successfully secured legal guardianship of 17,824 acres in Indonesiaโs North Sumatra province for six Indigenous communities. Finish scholar and NGO head Tero Mustonen helped convene Western Scientists and Sรกmi Indigenous knowledge holders to protect and restore local culture and large areas of peatlands. In Turkey, former civil engineer Zafer Kฤฑzฤฑlkaya established that country's first community-managed marine protected area in Gรถkova Bay and successfully convinced the country to further protect over 300 miles of coastline. Diane Wilson helped secure a significant legal victory against Formosa Plastics' plant at Point Comfort, Texas.
MORE LIGHT: Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize
Last but not least: HAPPY MAY DAY!
I call upon you, workers.
It is not yet light
But I beat upon your doors.
You say you await the Dawn
But I say you are the Dawn.
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