My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.
The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.
(Ad came out a few months ago - maybe someone already made this, somewhere?)
Free media idea: recast the A. Prime commercial around learning to cook with each step exploring more of the city around her. The cooking store, ethnic grocery store, laughing with owners, meeting neighbors. An ad for connection rather than isolation.
... but the fact of the matter is this: US scientists losing their labs have nowhere to go because nothing like the US life sciences system that RFK Jr. shattered exists elsewhere. It will take years and years to rebuild where it doesn't exist now.
Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024
Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this
Looking forward to hearing about local solar policy changes as a result!
NY: call your state legislators and demand they stop Hochul’s attack on New York’s climate law.
If she succeeds she will raise our energy bills, destroy jobs and increase pollution.
Call now and leave them a message!
www.fastcompany.com/91516885/new...
Required reading, and a foundational article to pull out as the topic comes up.
Reo’s work should be read with the same lens as Robert Caro’s - when they share a source (or negative) you should assume they found the weird archive half drowned in the river to check.
Many more people should play Daybreak - it’s such a delight, and so many of the real-world feedback loops are sneakily perfect in the game. #sharehoodnewstoo
New from us: how Pakistan's solar boom is dampening the impact of the Hormuz crisis on the country. Solar power allowed LNG&diesel imports to fall after the previous gas crisis in 2021-22, with the solar boom set to avoid $7bn in fossil fuel import costs this year.
Things it would be helpful if everyone knew that add to the many reasons we should be rapidly working to end our dependence on fossil fuels. 👇
International Energy Agency says outcome of U.S.-Israel War on Iran: "higher oil prices and a deteriorating economic outlook have begun to erode demand across the [oil] product spectrum." Global oil demand growth in March & April expected to fall by over 1 million barrels per day.🧵
Ørsted's 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project started delivering power to New England's electric grid yesterday: orsted.com/en/media/new... 🔌💡
a chart showing high new EV sales (close to 100% for 2025) but slow change in usage, registration and emissions drops
Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow.
Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!
My in-laws are very involved with the UU a few towns over, and shared the [only kind of a] joke that a UU was a set of atheists that had kids, which continues to resonate. Our visits have been lovely - I’m so happy for you!
thanks to @volts.wtf for having me on to talk about coordinating and planning fossil phase out to build a better and actually decarbonized world. there‘s a lot we can do if we imagine a people-centered, service oriented future — and a LOT we miss if we don’t.
This is really nicely done, and is a nice example of how much the climate and housing advocacy communities have in common. Great work, Dave & co.
The Gulf promised Silicon Valley stability for its trillion-dollar AI boom. Iranian strikes are testing that promise in real time restofworld.org/2026/amazon-uae-data-cen...
I'm reminded of this point from an interesting energy system modeling paper from a few months ago
Cost difference bw renewables/fossil lower than it first appears - renewable pays up front, but fossil has economic/geopolitical price volatility that adds cost (and is rarely priced in)
This winter is such a great example of shifting baselines. As someone in the east, it was cold this winter. Full stop. But it "felt" even more frigid because we haven't had such cold recently.
It was cold but not historically so. But good heavens look at that record-breaking heat out West. 🔥
“The Trump administration “is telling American manufacturers, ‘You guys go build gasoline cars again,’” he said. “The Chinese government is telling its manufacturers, ‘You go build the advanced vehicles that are going take over the world.’”
Working on climate makes me think a lot about language that is accurate but also at the scale of the problem - this shows why “concentration camps” is the right term for the US, in exceptional prose.
In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Unchecked Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trap Heat, Destabilizing Global Weather Patterns And Putting Millions Of Lives At Risk
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Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
