So you heard about Allbirds' pivot to AI—but did you catch that it's asking shareholders to approve a charter amendment removing references to it operating for the benefit of the environment? More on the end of this mission & the trend of dying sustainable brands:
www.fastcompany.com/91530317/all...
More and more housing authorities are retrofitting their buildings with heat pumps—they provide heating and cooling, cut emissions, & save on energy costs. One in Providence, Rhode Island just installed 277 Gradient heat pumps in just 12 days www.fastcompany.com/91528250/thi...
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.
less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
Now, the person who wrote the history here is doing a bit of spin, as the show as actually interrupted when (presumably this person) yelled "WILL YOU FUCKING SIT DOWN" at the top of his lungs
Under the setlist mention of the song "Wristwatch" is the note: (Interrupted by an asshole couple who wouldn't sit at an all-seated acoustic when asked politely to)
last night I saw MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee (amazing), and I looked up the set list to check one cover they played, and saw that the setlist posted on a wiki included this note—which really happened!
why are people so obsessed with *not* spending some time in an airport? really, what are you doing that time instead (unless its sleep)? it is perfectly fine to sit and read and people watch for a little bit!
my weekend plans! feels like everything burst to life at once
Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."
I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.
www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...
when one of these goons tells you “actually AI could help us solve the climate crisis” it’s both insulting and injurious
hey thanks so much sharing @ketanjoshi.co ! admire all your climate work
We're barrelling pretty fast into annual report season, so worth catching up on this v good summary of everything tech-climate-accountability (which also mentions the latest work I led on greenwashing narratives!)
"(Managers of Drake and Dave Matthews spoke, with praise for Live Nation.)"
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...
screenshot of text that reads: actually the Town would be better as a musical
oh, follow up thought:
screenshot of text that reads: how come they haven't made a broadway musical of the departed
sent this story about a Boston Globe reporter with an accent everyone loves to my (from Massachusetts) husband and somehow that led him to this thought www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...
It may be a small shift, but its indicative of how tech companies are being a bit quieter about their climate goals as they expand their use of AI. Read more about it here: www.fastcompany.com/91525419/big...
In one example, Google’s sustainability webpage used to mention it’s net-zero by 2030 goal, with a “operating sustainably" subpage
That pledge has disappeared from the main page, which now highlights AI. The subpage was renamed “our operations.” www.fastcompany.com/91525419/big...
And forthcoming regulation changes could force Tech companies to revise their climate pledges—one reason why they might be quieter about them right now
www.fastcompany.com/91525419/big...
A June 2025 @newclimate.bsky.social report warned that tech companies’ emissions targets “appear to have lost their meaning and relevance.” And with how fast the AI boom is moving, the authors say it's already out of date
www.fastcompany.com/91525419/big...
Big Tech's AI push is complicating climate goals. It also seems to be changing how these companies talk about, and even consider, the climate.
“Climate appears to be the last thing that they’re thinking about," Thomas Day of @newclimate.bsky.social told me
www.fastcompany.com/91525419/big...
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
and they're "gathering signatures for a recall petition to oust the mayor and remaining four council members" !
“This was so avoidable,” Boyle said of Tuesday’s election outcome, urging future city officials to “listen to your residents.”
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
We'll do almost anything to avoid building actual trains.
if you missed some of the comments before they were apparently turned off
thinking immediately of the stories in this thread bsky.app/profile/kend...
“The Forest Service will essentially no longer be the world’s leading wildfire research agency," says Julian Reyes of @ucs.org. "They will be hamstrung forever...and so we’ll always be feeling these effects, probably for multiple generations." www.fastcompany.com/91524578/the...
I love seeing cherry blossoms every year: The trees burst with pink flowers all at once. But climate change is threatening these blooms. That could have huge implications for tourism (In Japan, cherry blossom season has a $9B economic impact!) www.fastcompany.com/91523046/jap...
Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth sold some $104 million worth of shares between January and March. ConocoPhillips’s Ryan Lance netted about $54.3 million in share sales in March alone. Lorenzo Simonelli, CEO of oil-field services company Baker Hughes, sold about $33 million worth of stock that same month
WSJ: Oil executives sold $1.4 billion in personal stock between January and March, making a fortune on the war
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Text of "Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)" by Muriel Rukeyser. Text is online at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/poem-i-lived-in-the-first-century-of-world-wars
Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...
