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“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy
I hope you’ve been enjoying a fabulous Earth Month— and you made it a grand 53rd Earth Day this past weekend.
A renewable future is in bloom all around if you look to notice. It’s all happening— so let’s go!
1.Generation Green New Deal for All
The IRA was just the beginning: AOC, Markey try to influence new climate law with a new Green New Deal | EPA Proposes Major Air Pollution Reforms to Lower Residents’ Cancer Risk Near Industrial Facilities | Chicago’s Little Village Residents Fight for Better City Oversight of Industrial Corridors | UN: Protecting Indigenous health also protects the environment | EPA Releases Framework for the Implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as Part of President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda | EPA panel reviews environmental justice tool | DOE drafting regulations to implement 15-year-old requirement for fossil-free federal buildings | Biden Pledges $500 Million to Stop Deforestation in Brazil | The old world is dying. We’re building a new one.
2. Expanding the Clean Energy Era for Everyone, Everywhere
World’s deepest offshore wind turbine installed off Scottish coast | Floating solar project on Philippines natural lake brings hope — and questions | US clean energy manufacturing commitments double to $200b after Biden subsidies launched | U.S. clean energy investment skyrocketing since August | NREL Innovations Help Consumers Invest in Our Planet: A Few Ways the Laboratory Propels Earth's Inhabitants Toward a Cleaner Future | The US Inflation Reduction Act can spur a green race to the top | One of the biggest battery recycling plants in the US is up and running | US invests in alternative solar tech, more solar for renters | Biden-Harris Administration Announces $250 Million to Accelerate Electric Heat Pump Manufacturing Across America | Five innovative projects ushering in the renewable energy transition | Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead | The Bill That Could Connect California to Sun, Wind, and Savings Across the West | Community solar can propel Pa. toward an equitable clean energy future | Community solar gardens can help close the equity gap | Solar Energy Just Became More Accessible for Renters After Yesterday's DOE Announcement | Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Investments to Support and Accelerate Community Solar Across America | Community solar projects seen as key to clean-energy targets | Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead | DOE Ramps up Support for LMI Community Solar | Harris Unveils ‘Largest Community Solar Project in U.S. History’ | Chart: EV sales on pace to break 1 million in US this year
3. Entering Our Earth Day Every Day Epoch
How to Ditch the Earth Day Lip Service | What Is the History of Earth Day? | Earth Day Resolutions | People don’t understand climate jargonーscience communication could help | How I learned to talk about climate science with skeptical audiences |This fashion partnership is making jackets out of old fishing nets | IKEA’s buy back and resell program has launched in select US stores | Janine Benyus — Biomimicry, an Operating Manual for Earthlings | Zoom Recording Environmental Activist Skill Ups | Electrify Everything | Five innovative projects ushering in the renewable energy transition | 7 ways we've made the Earth better since the last Earth Day | NEW Biodiversity Stripes Graphic just dropped to make messaging on extinction gorgeous:
🧭 Cool Climate Tools for You to Use:
🗺️ State Climate Solutions
🏭 Change in Emissions from 2005 to 2020
🌡️Local to National Warming
📈 National Warming Since 1970
FOR FUN: 🃏 Earth Day Solitaire
Last but not least: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2023 TREEHOUSE CLIMATE ACTION POETRY PRIZE WINNER: John James for their poem “Lullaby”
The slowing
stream of morning
news murmurs in his ear.
It cradles him
in a sound, like some
object of history.
I celebrated this 53rd Earth Day by honoring the roots of the holiday— joining an eco activist climate protest and teach-in at the national mall organizing power for environmental justice. Here are some pics from this weekend’s DC #EndtheEraofFossilFuels Rally and Concert event:
What did you get up to for this 53rd Earth Day? 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.
Why write love poetry in a burning world?
To train myself in the midst of a burning world
to offer poems of love to a burning world.
— Katie Farris, Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World