Very sad but very true 😕

#vaccines #climate #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #activism

🐲 There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away • NYT

｢ In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary and beyond ｣

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html

#climate #energycrisis #evs #china

Like a lot of nerds I've always had a "Uses/My set-up" page on my site. I'm embarrassed that it hadn't occurred to me that I should also have the opposite. I've set up a "Boycotts" page where I've documented the details of the companies, products and in some cases, categories of products, that I avoid or refuse to buy because they cause harm to my fellow humans and planetary ecosystems.

Ethics should play a role in what we use.
#democracy #ethics #climate #technology
https://beardystarstuff.net/boycott.html

Those "free market" Republicans are trying everything they can to kill the green energy market — not just killing tax credits, but tariffs and they even proposed taxing solar (it failed).

Why? Why do they effin care so much?

The easy answer...

3/n
#climate #green #solar

And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)

I missed last month's #solarpunk essay from @AndrewDanaHudson , but I think the 10-year-check-in is a worthy read:

https://www.solarshades.club/p/the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk10

The world has changed. Solarpunk influenced it, even without a single Masterpiece. We are continuing to build from multiple sides.

People are doing a lot on the ground - whether in the North or the South - and we're finally getting a language which can share their stories.

#writing #essay #manifesto #climate #climateChange #politics

Conspiracy theorists are blaming flash floods on cloud seeding — it has to stop https://www.theverge.com/science/704711/cloud-seeding-flash-flood-conspiracy-theory#Environment#Climate#Science#Policy#Report

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
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Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flash-flood-camp-mystic-climate-change-trump-noaa-fema?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Climate#ClimateChange#Flood#ExtremeWeather#Texas#Trump

Africa is uniquely positioned to leapfrog the fossil fuel era and lead the world into a clean energy future

Structural barriers, such as debt burdens, limited access to finance, and restrictive intellectual property regimes, continue to stifle progress

https://www.context.news/net-zero/opinion/africa-can-go-100-renewable-so-whats-stopping-it

#Africa#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#IrreversibleOverheating#UpheavalClimate#GlobalBurning#ClimateDestruction#ClimateSuicide#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

I've been toying with the idea of some sort of Solarpunk/Library Socialism Movement in St. Louis for a while. I do not feel like any current organization deals with the specific issues I'm concerned with in a comprehensive, local way.

As a result, I have a vision I've been toying with that I feel ready to share: https://nextcloud.nullarch.com/s/qkkisXnC5iw2EAX

I'm very open to feedback or interest in this idea/project.

#stl #stlouis #saintlouis #solarpunk #librarysocialism #climate #urbanism #housing #anarchism