🌞 Creativity, Community, Power, & Poetry: 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! Here’s your sunny climate news:
Bright Creativity
Cheerful Community
Winds (& Solar) of Change
1. Bright Creativity
Sustainability Has Gone Mainstream Across Industries
Community wind turbines and heat pumps could be a win-win against fuel poverty and climate change
Making Sustainability More Tangible
Realizing the full potential of behavioural science for climate change mitigation
Staff at wildlife centre dress up as a mother fox to save abandoned cub
Five reasons why investors have a financial duty to be acting on climate risk
The best eco-friendly home improvements you can do for less than $100
2. Cheerful Community
Jason Momoa: From the ashes we rise — how nature can still heal
There is a viral quality to acts of kindness towards nature, and they can inspire additional action from individuals, communities, NGOs, celebrities, scientific institutions, corporations, and governments. Solutions are bound to breed more hope, and every individual action can build up to a massive wave of change, which I call mana (spiritual life-force) nalu (wave).
Even without superpowers, we’re the most powerful creatures in Earth’s history. It remains entirely up to us to determine how that power shall be unleashed. — Jason Momoa, From the ashes we rise — how nature can still heal
The Coolest Place on Earth: The Public Library
‘So happy you’re here’: how a librarian became an advocate for mental health
Get ready, North Carolina. Cicadas are coming
Among the Celebrity Glitz, an Awards Ceremony With Meaning
Can you fit a heat pump in an apartment? New York is testing new window-mounted tech for renters
Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building
U.S. moves to save imperiled bird of the West by limiting oil drilling
3. Winds (& Solar) of Change
US sets new clean power installation record in 2023
Renewables expand to 23 percent of US electrical generation in 2023, with solar in the lead
The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
Clean energy tech slowed down growth of global carbon emissions in 2023, IEA says
DOE launches $5M prize to create solar manufacturing training programs. This new competition will:
☀️ Create solar power industry jobs
📈 Ensure economic growth
💪🏾 Lifting up low-income communities
✅ Invest $5 million in growing solar
Four ways total solar eclipses helped us learn more about our universe
You’re not crazy. Spring is getting earlier. Find out how it’s changed in your town
Polluting private jets could face a 400% fuel tax increase under new Biden proposal
Could ‘solar sandwiches’ revolutionise green power generation?
This solar farm was built on an abandoned gravel pit
‘A beautiful idea’: This French town is making its cemetery a source of solar energy
That’s it for now! Thanks for keeping onward to a more beautiful-renewable world. 💚