Everyone who emails me in my work email today is immediately on my naughty list let me BE

Measuring Impact, and Things to Keep You Warm on Anxious Nights First Post! Good news! Bad news. Enough steps forward and steps back to make a really solid line-dance routine.

The worst has happened. Yet another white, single man in his late 20s who lives in Brooklyn and has too many tote bags has created a substack.

It was me, I did it.

😘

open.substack.com/pub/ianrhunt...

Really buckling down to wake up at 5am to get that good good consistent writing schedule going - now I just need to conquer the herculean task of making my desk more attractive to be at at 5am than my silly nefarious little phone :/

Fire-Wildfire Smoke
Earth- Sahara dust
Water- I see a cloud outside
Air- .....air

All four elements mingled over NYC in one day...clear sign the avatar is here

Never expected to be an ad on reddit, but here we are

Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick is Creating Climate Community for Kids | Happy Eco News In the show, Suzie Hicks the Climate Chick is an energetic yet grounded scientist who is joined by a puppet named Sprout. Sprout is a sunflower too small to have bloomed yet and is learning about the ...

My article in Happy Eco News about Suzie Hicks and climate media for kids came out today! Read here: happyeconews.com/suzie-hicks-...

The Weather and Climate Scientists Who are Getting Loud —  for the Next 100 Hours For 100 hours, scientists are livestreaming their science for everyone to hear, and they’re doing it RIGHT NOW.

Wrote a short blog post all about the AMAZING 100 hour Weather & Climate Livestream to save scientific funding in the USA. medium.com/@ian.hunt27/...

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

There's been a lot of writing about how the world will continue without the US being in the Paris agreement, or how cities in the USA will still pursue their goals, and I hear these arguments, but they forgot to consider:

I really want the US to still be in the Paris Agreement

To be clear: a cheese party involves:

-having more than one kind of cheese to nibble on
-at least two other people to celebrate with(I have two roommates which makes it easy)

In this way, cheese parties cement the positive climate steps in memory, and contribute to SDG #2 (feeding people cheese)

I was so excited about the news of Biden banning offshore drilling in certain areas and it was SWIFTLY washed away with news of LAs wildfires and meta's discontinuation of fact checkers due to "censorship."

I need to start throwing little cheese parties whenever there's good news to make it last

Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River.

Recently there's been a lot of small signs that maybe I should move from NYC to Chicago, and this good news also made the list grist.org/cities/chica...

Woke up at 4am for a flight, waited so long in the baggage check line I missed it, and am now back in bed. It's like I interrupted my sleep for an awful experience just to be in bed again. Feels like smth French Catholics would've done in the 1500s and called it penance

Nature can be absolutely breathtaking 😍

Environmental Justice Index Learn about the social and environmental factors affecting your community’s health and well-being.

Something you can use in research or advocacy: the government just updated the CDC’s Environmental Justice Index with some climate info. The index measures the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health...

SOUND UP: My makeshift writer's retreat has an evening chorus that I'm absolutely obsessed with
#thesweetsoundsofnature
#geese

This is how many animals could go extinct from climate change Even a single degree of warming can have devastating consequences for the natural world.

"Current climate policies put half a million species at risk of extinction"

Ho hum.

www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

POV: you're about to hear our unabbreviated thoughts on COP29 even though none of us were there

Realized I could take the cringey leaning on a lamppost photo and got too excited, if you look closely you can tell theres a real chortle coming out of my mouth Blurry photo of me leaning on a lamppost

Oh? I didn't see ya there Unfortunately a really high quality photo for how bad of a headshot photo this would be

Maybe one day my neck and my jawline can become one A v blurry headshot of me where the trees behind me are serving better looks than I am

I need to brush my tongue more A shockingly quality headshot if I didn't feel the need to make my friends behind the camera laugh every five seconds by making faces

author photo rejects to keep me humble (with roasts in the alt)

Have some winter in Vermont vibes for your Sunday Scaries

a cartoon with two panels panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there" The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

Back when I was doing more boots on the ground work, these (iconically ripped) black carhartts got me through everything, but I could only mend them so many times. Just sewed them into a new portfolio so that they're still forwarding climate badassery (holding to do lists)

Desensitized to Disaster Living in California during fire season, the acrid smell of smoke would eventually get dulled, and it wouldn’t be as noticeable after weeks…

New blog post reflecting on what it was like to breathe in smoke from fires in New York City, after living through fire seasons in California. This post has a LOT of feelings in it. medium.com/@ian.hunt27/...

@vfmcneill.bsky.social It's the newest icon

Opinion: Protecting Climate Labor Workers on the front lines of the climate crisis deserve new safety standards.

Taking care of the people working on the ground to implement the climate solutions we need is a passion of mine, which you can read more about in this Op-Ed I wrote a few months ago. news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/09/06/o...

February 2024 | Climate Imaginations

This was my first attempt to write about my experiences working (and not working) with water out in California, but what I love most is that I would write this SO differently now. It's nice to see growth in my writing even from earlier this year. www.climateimaginations.org/february-2024