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#ClimateCrisis

Arch Insanity: Protest and Press Conference Speak Out Against Arch Insanity! Join us at the National Building Museum at Thursday, 4/16, at 10:00 AM to protest desecration of landscape of our national capital with a monsterous vanity arch. O...

actionnetwork.org/events/arch-... Join us! @thirdactsocal.bsky.social @thirdactmd.bsky.social @thirdactdc.bsky.social

Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War An energy-hungry world is being pushed away by America and into China’s arms

Who leads the Electrotech world is secondary, given the #ClimateCrisis, "Yet it’s sad to watch this country sabotage itself and cede the most important industry of the future to China. ... In the end, we aren’t just burning fossil fuels; we’re also burning our future."

Yes, that's us, midway through the article, doing a light projection calling attention to the close relationship between Ferguson and BGE.

Maryland Democrats turned Exelon into a punching bag. The real fight is just starting. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The Extraordinary Sensory Worlds of Animals - Inside Climate News An interview with author Ed Yong.

At timestamp ~35:00, Yong talks about the disconnect of modern society with nature and how that underlies the problems we have ( #climatecrisis, ...).

Shock heard round the world: Only good thing from this crazy and stupid war--and, perhaps the ultimate unintended consequence.

In a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last month It’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid.

"But perhaps more impressive is that renewables are growing their market share while overall electricity demand climbs. Put simply, clean energy is taking a bigger slice of a growing pie."

Will more Americans embrace renewable energy after the latest oil price surge? YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

With Bill Mckibben and Jigar Shah

Compare The Guardian article's headline w/ those of the NY Times (Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk) and WaPo (U.S. Forest Service will move headquarters from D.C. to Utah).

May 1- No Business as Usual.
No Work. No School. No Shopping.

If you’re a business owner, consider closing for the day. If you’re a worker or a student, we encourage you not to show up on May 1.

Find a May Day Strong event near you: maydaystrong.org

Not sure. Are there specific passages that you think are possibly LLM generated?

"The administration is not seeking efficiencies or savings, ... they are seeking a more expansive, more profitable path for special interests through the exploitation of public goods like our national forests. Industry only profits from horizontal trees, not vertical ones."
#SaveOurForests #SAVEUSFS

The pressure campaign is working. The USDA Forest Service just spoke out, attempting to explain what they’re calling “fact vs. fiction.” Don’t trust this administration, all they do is lie. They know they’re losing businesses are pulling away, and everyone is speaking out.

Wow, and wow again.

Clean energy candidates have beaten a concerted campaign by Turning Point USA and captured a board majority at the Salt River Project, Arizona's 2nd-largest utility

Lots of us pitched in on this fight, not knowing if a win was possible. It was!
www.ariseia.org/news/clean-e...

“Artemis is the best of America ... what we could be at a time when the administration is betraying American values ...”
“Our scientific enterprise is a primary reason we have ... world-leading economy ... Cutting government funding for science will ... lead us to becoming a second-rate country.”

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

An important read
#ClimateCrisis

Update 8: Update Number 7 · The Sky is the Limit (NCAR) Had the wonderful opportunity to discuss the film and NCAR this morning with radio reporter Don Davis from Boulder's KGNU community radio station. Everyone is encouraged to listen.With only six days t...

It's all or nothing. Just need another $5K or so pledged in the next 6 days for the project, The Sky is the Limit (NCAR), to proceed.

Five companies so far have spoken out: Patagonia, REI, Columbia Sportswear, Orvis, and Black Diamond. Thank them publicly. And, continue writing to other companies that still remain silent. Every action matters.
#SaveOurForests #SAVEUSFS
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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.

What the Trump regime is doing to the US Forest Service is not a "reorganization"; it's a dismantling. They're doing it in broad daylight, but in the shadow. Help illuminate the shadow: See "What You Must Do Right Now" at end of article and do before it's too late.
#SaveOurForests #SAVEUSFS

Baltimore residents and people all across Maryland are tired of Senator Bill Ferguson’s cozy relationship with utility companies like BGE.

Ferguson’s latest betrayal of his own constituents is his Utility RELIEF Act, which will line the pockets of BGE and its executives and stick us with the tab.

As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables

"global realignment: electrostates of the future v the petrostates of the past" "most powerful means of persuasion is to starve them [recalcitrant countries] of customers ... stop buying their products”
But, "time is running out to convert petrostates ... into clean technology hubs" #climatecrisis

More info: dismantling of US Forest Service (closure of all regional offices, gutting of 57 research stations, relocation of HQ to Utah).
Contact companies that exist because of wild, accessible public lands; ask them to speak up before it's too late.
#SaveOurForests #SAVEUSFS @altnps.bsky.social

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

"Researchers stress that cutting meat — especially beef — and reducing biofuel production could significantly increase the amount of food available for people while easing pressure on land, ecosystems and water resources."
#vegan #plantbased #vegetarian #climatecrisis

The Simple Math of the Death of LNG Imagine you wanted to buy a new car.  Now imagine that you have a choice of two cars that are identical except one of the cars requires you to buy expensive fuel to run it and the other runs on free f...

"What should be clear by now is the economics of imported LNG will doom its future as an integral part of the global energy system. Throw in the new energy security issues ..."

Took another sample of cars this past Friday at
@indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social banner drop on Gorman Rd over I-95, MD. Just one data point, but southbound traffic had highest positive reactions (honking, waving, flashing lights) ever. Also, first time a passing police cruiser on Gorman Rd honked! 😁

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

"Many of these sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change." “You can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to Salt Lake City."

"There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in"
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Thanks everyone for showing up at #TeslaTakedown Rockville MD today and helping the light get in.
We're here every Sat., 11 am 1300 Rockville Pike. Stop by and help spread the light!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

What we all did together this past Saturday across the country, 8 million+ of us at 3,300+ events. The work continues, of course, of which this #NoKings3 day was an important and joyful part.

Eight Million Protestors and No Kings: The Case for Showing Up It wasn't just bigger than the previous #nokings. It was different. Here's how USA Today unpacks that: "The organizers' crowd count, not verified by independent analysts, put the total at 8 million pe...

"three domains in which democracy is defended or lost: the ballot box, the courts, and the streets. His point was that no single one is sufficient — and that the streets, far from being the weakest, are the foundation the other two rest on."