Britain’s Renewable Energy Glut | OilPrice.com Britain’s rapid renewable energy expansion is creating excess electricity, prompting the government to incentivize consumers to shift usage and prevent costly grid imbalances.

United Kingdom has been rapidly increasing its deployment of new renewable energy capacity in recent years, to the point that it now has spare power during peak production hours.

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The Battle of Blair Mountain Podcast Episode · Disturbing History · April 10 · 1h 14m

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Why San Francisco Bay has suddenly become a death trap for gray whales | Discover Wildlife Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into California's San Francisco Bay, where they are often hit and killed by boats, according to a new study.

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Wherefore Art Though, Military Coup? (or, Is Trump Dying?) You may have seen some chatter about U.S. military generals getting fired by Trump for refusing to comply with some of his utterly insane…

Where's that confounded military coup to finish off Trump already, not paywalled:
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Global human population is pushing Earth past its breaking point Earth has already exceeded its ability to support the global population sustainably, with new research warning of increasing pressure on food security, climate stability, and human well-being. However...

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Go Touch Grass So today, finally, Matt Taibbi took a break from “random reporting on free speech issues that sounds suspiciously like support for hate…

In which I comment on Matt Taibbi and the current state of political leadership, meaning the complete lack thereof. Not paywalled.
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No Kings And The Broken Left What No Kings was/is never going to accomplish: - Get politicians to do the right thing about anything - Convince leftists that the…

A few words on No Kings and the divide on the left, not paywalled.
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'Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING' (Chris Hedges at Princeton) YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

This man teaches me something every time.
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Led by Donkeys ‘rename’ Larry Ellison’s $160 million yacht in Riviera stunt A protest group has “renamed” billionaire Larry Ellison’s super yacht to “The Trump Propagandist”. Footage released by Led By Donkeys on Tuesday (24 March) shows activists approaching Ellison’s $160 m...

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He is 80 years old, lives alone in an adobe house built in 1920, draws water from a well, cooks with firewood, and his daily routine leaves thousands of people speechless An 80-year-old man living alone in a 1920 adobe house in rural Brazil is leaving thousands stunned with his daily routine.

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It’ll have to be really tough for south central US. The pink cultivar does really well. Not comparative to your neck of the woods. Seems like heaven for plants there & in Washington.

From the americanoligarchy community on Reddit: There is no red, there is no blue. - There is however the ultra wealthy and everyone they want to keep working until death. Posted by Alena_Tensor - 123 votes and 0 comments

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Wow. That is lovely! Clematis armandii? I’ll have to look for 1.

Winter is finally leaving. Unlike the 230,000 people who've ended their own lives so far this awful, terrible year, you've survived. You aren't expected to accomplish anything else.

ONE SPECIES - A stirring take on climate change from Isaac Asimov YouTube video by melodysheep

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A dead Israeli prime minister is about to end the world. That's where we are now. Our fate lies in the hands of an AI-generated version of Netanyahu.

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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings. Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...

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Makes you wonder what kind of sociopaths we share this planet with. Those that are naive, or truly don’t care about their own progeny.

They demand lebensraum

Aipac: toxicity of pro-Israel Super Pac’s money to be tested in US primaries The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has funneled $13.7m through Super Pacs into Tuesday’s Illinois primaries

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating — Guardian US Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

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The People vs. Big Oil, Part 1: 'Amazon Chernobyl' Podcast Episode · Lawless Planet · March 16 · 47m

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We must protect our natural habitats before they disappear | Letters Letters: Readers respond to Sam Dumitriu’s article on protecting Britain’s environment

My letter in the Guardian countering an article by a pro-growth lobbyist from Britain Remade attacking environmental legislation

“Ecologists & conservationists would be surprised by his claim that the UK doesn’t & never will build enough to drive nature loss”
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Beautiful

The nature of war Saturday was one of those spring days when the sunshine is warm, but the shadows are still winter cold.

Yesterday, I stood silently with Norwich Women in Black - part of a global movement opposing war and promoting justice.

I was distracted by goldfinches singing in a city centre tree, prompting me to write about the ecological impacts of war.

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#WomenInBlack

The landmark IPBES Business and Biodiversity Report found that global economic growth occurs at the expense of biodiversity, the loss of which poses a critical, systemic risk to the economy & human wellbeing.

🎥 Watch this short video to learn more.
🔗 https://www.ipbes.net/bba-report/media-release

GOP Farm Bill Set to Unleash Pesticide Use and Strip Animal Welfare Protections The bill protects agrochemicals producers from lawsuits, and overturns food and pesticide safety laws and statutes.

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Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren't just growing—they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture an...

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"...every dollar invested in protecting nature, $30 dollars is spent on destroying it. Major policy shifts that scale up natural solutions and benefit the economy are needed and are possible — it will take the buy-in of governments that phase out harmful subsidies and destructive investment..."

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

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