This looks good, from “Climate School” — Wednesday, online, 1 hour, free. events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

The day began with a front-page article about "mutually assured destruction" AI drone factories...and ended with this description of what all else AI could take out this year. Stocks today? All-time high. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

This Rudolph Schindler 'modernist treehouse' is up for sale The Kallis-Sharlin residence is listed for $6.35 million

The home Susan Orlean painstakingly renovated and told the LA Times she would never leave...the fires changed everything. www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

Breaking News: The Trump administration agreed to allow the rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall monument in Manhattan, reversing its earlier decision. nyti.ms/4c8DEry

health policy timeline cleanse ☺️

“The labours of the many dozens of people who had produced it had been abstracted, appropriated and ultimately obscured in the commodity form.”

It seemed to kinda go back to normal features and better design today? (No utterly unreadable "Culture Digest" this week.) Personally, I feel we've diagnosed enough maladies over the years, ha, that can go.

Chevron's CEO made $104 million while America bombed Iran America's oil executives have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, a new investigation shows.

Oil executives sold more than $1.4 billion in personal stock, since January, profiting off US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the resulting energy crisis.

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth made $104 million. In March alone, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made about $54 million.

By Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social:

+1.8°C above the pre-industrial baseline possible by winter! That’s what the North American Multi-model Ensemble (NMME) estimates the global surface temperature anomaly will be by December, due in part to the strong El Niño boost… 1/

“You ask if there’s a third question we can pose. Here’s one: Is it possible any longer to write novels that are not already suffused with the situation?”

Cinematographer Gordon Willis was a ninja with that dolly track.

NATURE IS HEALING

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

The Sky is the Limit (NCAR) A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces.

For your consideration: Crowd funding for "The Sky is the Limit (NCAR--A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces."

This is so good!

Sunrise Movement Pushes Anti-War Candidates, Endorsing Melat Kiros in Denver The group’s increasing anti-war push shows how progressives are leveraging an unpopular war in the midterms.

“There’s just no winning on climate unless we address how absolutely broken our political system is,” said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement.

🇫🇷 The International Olympic Committee's decision to reintroduce gender testing for the first time since 1999 is a "step backwards", French Sports Minister Marina Ferrari said on Friday.

Read more here: https://go.france24.com/w5l

Yup, in certain (U.S.) places, I find people are more open to speaking frankly if I “write about nature.” That, or their eyes roll back in boredom, which at least gets us around rehearsed, political battle-rhetoric.

“It was a different game now. Clearly, the machine no longer belonged to its makers.”

1981 prescience from the Pulitzer-winning nonfiction marvel Tracy Kidder, who passed away on Tuesday. Beautiful writer, beautiful life.

Tracking Central Park Cherry Blossoms in 2025 When and where to see cherry blossoms, or sakura, in Central Park New York, NYC | Central Park Conservancy

The cherry blossom tracker map for Central Park (ignore the incorrect year, it’s current—we’re officially in “pre-bloom,” not long now!)…

www.centralparknyc.org/cherry-bloss...

🙌

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

“the sesame seed-sized cavalry”! Great pice, Brian, thank you for this reporting.

Forests, Not Data Centers: A Better Plan for Rural Prosperity | Common Dreams ​Local and state governments should invest in protecting natural landscapes as the foundation of rural prosperity—not funnel more public dollars into yet another dirty and destructive industry.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/fore...

‘Pompei: Below the Clouds’ Review: Trembling Beauties, Old and New

This was a transformative experience (and a good detox from 2026 pace, though it's cut beautifully!). www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/m...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Opinion | To Dress Up Is to Live

“She told me about the Romanian occupation from 1941 to 1944, when she and her mother hid in the basement of their building — just as we sometimes do these days.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...