Bicycle weekends all summer is great, for example, but I think we can and should be much more ambitious than that!

I continue to be impressed with how Mamdani keeps churning out really tangible wins. Would love to see more things like this from @mayorofseattle.bsky.social. Many more bike lanes + walkable places, quickly, for example.

Should development be extinguished on California’s fire-prone hills? - Reveal Sonoma County’s hillsides are particularly picturesque and expensive. Their history of fire and development is instructive because it is so typical.

Yes

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Extreme Weather Is Sending Home Insurance Rates Through the Roof; Big Oil Should Pay | Common Dreams ​We and a growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to ensure that the companies that helped drive the climate crisis help pay their fair share of the ensuing damage.

"The average American homeowner isn’t responsible for this climate chaos; why are they the ones picking up the tab for the billions of dollars of damage it leaves in its wake?" @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

insurance companies shouldn't be allowed to invest in fossil fuels

Tiny North Carolina town takes a big step toward geothermal energy Seed funding will help the rural town of Enfield in its quest to heat and cool homes without fossil fuels while drastically lowering residents’ energy…

Thermal energy networks (TENs) -- networks of pipes that bring up heat from under the earth's surface to warm homes & buildings without pollution or emissions -- are breaking out all over! Here's a new one in a tiny, rural NC town:

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

🚨Rep. Harriet Hageman just introduced a bill in Congress to kill lawsuits and superfund laws that would make oil companies pay for climate damages.

The lawmaker's press release features a joint statement from the two largest oil & gas lobby groups in the country. hageman.house.gov/media/press-...

Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3 Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have la...

Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have launched the Sound Transit Now campaign.

Guest op-ed: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconn...

Great! Now let's add a permanent bike lane too? At least close one lane to cars permanently?

Map showing snow water equivalent percent of the 1991-2020 median for the Western United States on April 10, 2026.

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns.

Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

Crucial infrastructure for King County’s clean energy future is under attack and needs our help.

Please visit our site to email King County!

I continue to think data center demand projections are overblown

The Hidden Culprit Behind Rising Gas Utility Bills  - Inside Climate News From the cold snap this winter to the U.S.’s war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind spikes in gas-utility costs, one decades in the making.  The mai...

The main driver of gas-utility bills used to be the price of gas itself, but utility spending on gas infrastructure has more than tripled in the last decade—now making up the bulk of consumer costs.

It seemed the climate-concerned people had thought about how electricity is generated but not how it gets from place to place. A message about how the grid is what's holding back more cheap renewables seemed to resonate with people, but it wasn't a connection they had made before.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Another takeaway and not surprising: if people think grid expansion is only for data centers, they're opposed across the political spectrum.

We need to figure out how to convince people the grid needs to expand to fight climate change, whether or not data center demand materializes

Just returned from Spokane and Bend for focus groups on the grid.

One of the biggest takeaways: people don't understand or believe the link between expanding the grid and fighting climate change, even if they are all for more clean energy.

How Pacific Northwest can handle growing energy demands without new gas-fired power plants Sightline Institute has a new piece arguing against some findings from an industry-paid study. We'll hear a fellow with the think tank to learn more.

New gas-fired power plants aren't the answer for the PNW's energy needs. In a recent OPB article, the non-partisan think tank @sightline.org makes the case that building gas infrastructure isn’t the only answer. To learn more, listen to the full interview: www.opb.org/article/2026... #CleanEnergy

More transmission means better access to wind and solar, less reliance on volatile fossil fuels, a more resilient grid, and less overbuilding of generation.

@ktrumbull.bsky.social with smart ideas to get grid projects off the ground in Oregon -- one of the hardest places to get it done today.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Solar permitting scorecard A majority of states have done little to adopt common-sense practices that reduce the costs and delays that permitting and inspection requirements impose on families wishing to install solar panels an...

Ooh, good stuff here from @permitpower.bsky.social: a scorecard that ranks all 50 states on how easy it is to install solar, how smooth they've made permitting & interconnection, etc.

In September I visited one of the half-finished nuclear reactors in Satsop, WA. We're still paying it off, after the largest municipal bond default in US history (known as "Whoops").

Let's not repeat history.

Feeling a lot of trepidation about the fire season this morning.

Breaking: #waleg passes SB 6355 to establish a state transmission authority, with bipartisan support.

One big step to expanding our grid so we can connect more wind and solar and free ourselves from polluting, dangerous, and expensive fossil fuels.

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WA's electricity grid needs a state transmission authority | Editorial A bill aims to focus state government on the urgent task of building transmission to power new electricity demands and fulfill the clean energy transition.

ICYMI, state transmission authority may happen in #waleg this year (i.e., today or tomorrow), after all!

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

This is what ecocide looks like.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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