Mayor Mamdani speaks at a podium with brick buildings and bright greenery in the background.

The side of a brick building with temperature control units in four windows.

Happy Earth Day, NYC!
 
An affordable city is a sustainable city. I'm proud to support NYCHA’s ambitious new Sustainability Agenda, which includes heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations, induction stoves, and other energy-efficiency upgrades for NYCHA residents over the next five years.

An American Robin stands on the ground, with a bunch of dark blue/black berries in its beak.

American Robin with a mouthful of juicy berries at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #pnw #oregon #birdoftheday #comeeatwithme #turdidae

Mt. Hood at sunrise. Dark conifers, snowy mountaintop with some rock exposed, surrounded by pink-orange clouds with some indigo sky clouds behind.

One more… sunrise. Mt. Hood. 🩷☮️🫶🏻

#PNW #Mountain #Sunrise

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables

The Grand Canyon seen from Space!😮

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Monochrome photo of a rugged forest river flowing down a mountainous rocky scene with deep green pine trees Image pinterest

A river does not force its way to the sea.

It does not worry about the rocks in its path.

It does not stop flowing
because the terrain gets difficult.

It simply moves.
It finds the path of least resistance,
and follows it.

Not because it is lazy.
But because it trusts the landscape to guide it.

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity - The Renewable Energy Institute Countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar and wind power marking what scientists say is an “irrev...

Seven countries now use renewable energy for 100% of their electricity

Recent data has shown that in 2022, countries including Albania, Paraguay, Ethiopia & Nepal produced more than 99.7% of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro,

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Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Common loons call out in the morning quiet: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar.
Now it takes just half a day.

Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

"In a world where you can be anything, bee kind 🐝" Berta Bilder, Germany.

Bumblebees (genus Bombus): There are 275 species of Bumblebee in the world, a few native to South America and found in NZ, the majority across the Northern Hemisphere. Thank you Berta for sharing your photo taken in Germany 🐝

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

The AP began in the mid-19th century when NY newspapers looked to share costs of reporting outside their immediate territories. Now it's offering buyouts to some of its U.S.-based journalists as it accelerates away from the newspaper journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s.

Reckoning, retribution and resistance: the behind-the-scenes story of Operation Metro Surge Minnesota leaders share new details about what happened during the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

ICE in Minneapolis. . . important background about how it all came to be

This planet — with all its troubles — is worth caring for.

That should be our single purpose, as a species: To be stewards of this magnificent world, ensuring it thrives long into the future.

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

to power the an emerging new world . . .

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

“Critics raised alarm over the proposal to consolidate research stations while much of the Western United States is suffering from record temperatures and prolonged drought that increase the risk of wildfires this summer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Yes,

"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?"

-- Jane Goodall, born #OTD 1934

I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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If you don't believe that magical places still exist, I ask that you simply walk into your local independent bookstore.

Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional

. . . The right to ask questions on the public’s behalf. . .

Still one of our all-time faves. ✊

🎯🎯

Opinion | Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future

Minnesota, Hail to Thee . . .