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🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: On the Horizon
🗣️ Quote-ovoltaic Climate Power: “It is so easy to get burnt out in activism because it is very slow
For me, I think it’s so important that your source is something that won’t tire you. Something that won’t burn you out. Something that will fill you up.
That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be angry or you shouldn’t be sad or you shouldn’t be afraid or that those feelings aren’t valid or if you’re coming from those places you’re not a good activist. I think that most of the time you’re afraid and you’re angry and you’re sad because of the love that you feel for the planet and for life and for the majority of people
I think it’s so important that we come from a place of revolutionary love.
That source of love helps you…you don’t just give up on people. You don’t just give up on the movement. You don’t just give up on anything because it’s coming from a place that doesn’t tire you out but rather keeps you going.” —Mitzi Jonelle Tan
1. Dream: Bigger, Better, & More Beautiful Solutions
‘SuperLab’ Will Test U.S. Power Grid against Climate Disasters | Get Ready For AI Climate Action | Fossil fuel companies should pay trillions in ‘climate reparations,’ new study argues | US greenlights major transmission line for renewable energy in Western states | White House to invest nearly $11 billion for renewable energy in rural areas | Best Day Ever: Youth climate activist Adah Crandall | Biden announces new fund to help low-income housing get climate upgrades | Largest ever US solar factory shows rapid pivot to American made | Long popular in Asia, floating solar catches on in US | As the wind power industry looks to super-sized turbines, disruptors are betting on radical designs | Meet “Fleather–” the sustainable, ethical new material made from flowers that is India’s disruptive innovation to the leather market | New NASA mission will help improve extreme weather forecasts | EPA Proposes to Expand its Regulations on Dumps of Toxic Waste From Burning Coal | Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act
2. Imagine: Inspiring & Empowering New Worlds
Clean Condo Life: Taking Heat Pumps To My Vertical Village’s Council | Supply Chain Snarls That Strangled Wind Power Are Nearly Gone | How robots could dramatically speed up solar farm construction | Minneapolis climate equity action plan: How is the city approaching climate justice? | EPA finally wakes up with stiff new climate rules: ‘They’ve hit full throttle’ | Weather intelligence company aims to revolutionize forecasting with a constellation of radar satellites | An Alabama plant is now churning out low-carbon concrete | Rooftop solar panels could power a third of US manufacturing, study finds | Millions ditched cars for bikes during the pandemic. These cities want the habit to stick | Two States Are Ramping Up Clean Energy Incentives. That Was the Inflation Reduction Act’s Point | A New Battery Intended to Power Passenger Airplanes and EVs, Explained | Vermont is moving from fuel oil to clean heat | Our Three Superpowers: Voice, Choice, Vote
3. Revolve: on Renewable Energies of Love
Meals on wheels delivers food and climate resilience for seniors | Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda | Most teachers support teaching students about climate change, survey finds | Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions | How to help Pacific Islanders cope with climate change and protect the environment | The next cameo on your favorite TV show could be climate change | Methane Mitigation in Texas Could Create Thousands of Jobs in the Oil and Gas Sector | Ukraine found an unlikely tool to resist Russia: Solar panels | Audiences want a different climate change message. Hollywood should deliver | Our daily bread: A new crop of farmers, millers, and bakers is working to restore Virginia’s local grain economy | The Laws That Took Down Mobsters Are Being Turned Against Big Oil | The next cameo on your favorite TV show could be climate change | Meet the women working to grow local food systems on U.S. island territories | Save With Every Sunrise: How Community Solar Helps You Save For What Matters
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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, today— the future thanks you, too.
“People need something to believe in. The role of young people in politics and movements throughout the years has been to hold the moral line, and not move from it one inch—and that is what we’re doing. And that requires us to say things that may seem crazy, illogical. But we’re looking at the science. And to us, honesty means looking at what the science says, right now, and even if it seems impossible, we’re saying, “That’s what’s necessary.” So that’s what we go for.” –Varshini Prakash
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