🌞 New Year, New Energy: 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:

1. New Bright: Reflecting Towards an Electrifying Future

2. New Energy: 3 Cheers for Winds of Change

3. New Solar: Glowing-Up Our Horizon

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1. New Bright: Reflecting Towards an Electrifying Future

A look back at US climate solutions this year

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10 charts that sum up 2023’s clean energy progress

Register to attend Renewables on the Rise: Success Stories

The Rise Of Renewables Is A Reason To Be Hopeful In 2024

Recapping, Reflecting, & Renewing— Onward!

From Rebecca Solnit: What Can I do about the Climate Emergency?

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2. New Energy: 3 Cheers for Winds of Change

America’s fastest-growing job is wind-turbine technicians

Hottest Job in US Pays $80,000 a Year, No College Degree Needed

Yale Climate Communication: Who Supports Climate Justice in the US?

Solar-Friendly Rooftop Wind Turbine Aims To Beat The Odds

Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

“The idea of a “just transition”, in which nobody was left behind, became central, and some workers were offered places on retraining schemes to adapt to the new normal.”

We can reclaim control of our destiny —former VP Al Gore

Switzerland’s KlimaSeniorinnen, or senior climate women

‘We have a responsibility’—the older women suing Switzerland to demand climate action

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3. New Solar: Glowing-Up Our Horizon

Solar is now the cheapest form of electricity in most countries around the world.

10 Hottest Department of Energy Solar Resources:

1. Homeowner’s Guide to the Federal Tax Credit for Solar Photovoltaics

2. How Does Solar Work?

3. Homeowner’s Guide to Going Solar

4. Federal Solar Tax Credits for Businesses

5. Solar Photovoltaic Technology Basics

6. Solar Photovoltaic Cell Basics

7. Solar Energy, Wildlife, and the Environment

8. Solar Radiation Basics

9. Perovskite Solar Cells

10. Solar Integration: Inverters and Grid Services Basics

In 2023, SETO launched “Connect the Dots on Solar Energy” to highlight the many benefits that solar energy generates to support an equitable transition to a decarbonized electricity system by 2035 and decarbonized energy sector by 2050. Over the course of the year, SETO connected the dots on the benefits of five solar themes: Community Solar, Solar Innovation, Health & Environment, Solar Workforce, and Rooftop Solar. 

A change in tax law has some solar providers walking on sunshine

Solar may cover 75% of global electricity demand by 2050

Solar Lobbying 101: Learn how to make your voice heard

Urge President Biden and the EPA to Finalize Standards on Climate

Fully Recharged

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That’s it for this week! Thanks for keeping onward towards a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚

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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.

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Climate Poetry Corner

Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye

For the New Year, 1981, Denise Levertov

Ode to Marketing at CleanChoice Energy (to Save the World)

Sonnet Marketing Clean Energy

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