The 2025 Harvard #Climate Action Week is underway and FXB Faculty Affiliate @gaurabbasu.bsky.social and his team have been working towards organizing and empowering health professionals to advance solutions. Read more on @aamc.org ➡️ tinyurl.com/58ch48s5 This week's events ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh9bsdzu

Make COP 30's big announcement - solar for everyone

How can one climate event impact families’ health, economic security, and well-being? Health professionals see the effects firsthand. Their stories show us the reality of how these disasters destroy lives and livelihoods. Explore them in our new report. bit.ly/OneClimateEv...

UK's End of Coal: "Each these 375ft tall, 290ft diameter cooling towers used to process a staggering 7.5 million gallons of water per hour. Safely bringing them down meant using around half a tonne of explosives across ~16,500 holes, connected with 19km of detonating cord."

We are very excited to launch a new fellowship teaching community organizing and advocacy to global climate and health scholars. And it'll be in beautiful Nafplio Greece! Please share with anyone who might be interested. fxb.harvard.edu/global-coach/

A few of my favorite things news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Truly appreciated this read. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Here comes the sun…

Good morning with good news: US solar surges 26.3% in May 2025 to 39.9 TWh, up from 30.6 TWh in May 2024. Solar nearly tripled from 13.9 TWh in May 2020. Solar May Share of Total Electricity: May 2025: 11.2% May 2024: 8.65% May 2023: 7.31% May 2022: 6.14% May 2020: 4.51% May 2015: 1.21% #energysky

A couple entries for the baby book, just to mark the era.

Call these 2 critical votes to vote no on the federal bill Lisa Murkowski - 202 224-6665 Susan Collins - 202 224-2523

Excited for the WBUR festival in Boston later this month! I’ll be speaking with Harvard Medical’s @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about health in the climate era. Tickets still available!

Rhodium Group on the House budget bill: Will raise energy costs as much as 7% in 2035, stifle energy technology innovation, increase pollution, and put half a trillion dollars of new manufacturing, industrial, and clean electricity investments across the country at risk. rhg.com/research/way...

Listen to @gaurabbasu.bsky.social on the Frontiers in Health & Happiness podcast from the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness! Dr. Basu shared, “Climate change, ecological degradation, air pollution, it basically impacts all parts of our health."

Overall approval rating 39%. 61% disapprove environment policy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Very honored to speak at the @wbur.org festival among some legendary folks. Buy ticks and join us! www.wburfestival.org/lineup

Celebrating earth day at National Academy of Medicine. We continue to stand for climate and health.

American households could save an average of $2,240 a year on their energy bills if we keep 2 very important renewable energy tax credits: 25D (think solar and storage) and 25C (think heat pumps and insulation). Why is this so important?

Courage is contagious. From Harvard Yard to every inch of the country.

"In California, solar generation could finally surpass gas this year." Actually, the probability that solar surpasses gas in 2025 is high! Gas fell from 50% of CA's electricity in January 2024 to 40% in January 2025, and solar rose from 20% to 28%. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

Hands off our planet. Hands off our health. Hands off our democracy. A packed Boston Commons. Spring is upon us.

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

On the @thedailyshow.com tonight at 11 with @ronnychieng.bsky.social !

some more congestion pricing Ws: Broadway attendance: up 21% Restaurant reservations: up 7% Pedestrian traffic: up 4% Retail sales: up $900M Commercial leasing: up 61% Subway crime: down 37% Car crashes: down 50% Honking complaints: down 69%

790,000 lost jobs, $32 billion in higher household energy bills, $160 billion lost GDP Shocking economic damage will hit America if Trump and Congressional Republicans repeal the Inflation Reduction Act - and GOP states will be hardest hit www.forbes.com/sites/energy...

Good climate news this week 1 Germany anchors net zero by 2045 goal in constitution 2 Emissions from global construction sector stop rising 3 BYD unveils new EV tech to charge a vehicle enough for 400km in just 5 minutes 1/

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

Proud of Mayor Michelle Wu today. @mayorwu.boston.gov

Happy to share that I've started a new clinical role at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity. I'll continue my faculty roles at Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health.

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

WELP. They sent everyone home, and now they've just reopened the series and put the bill back on the floor. Members had left Capitol Hill for the night, now they are turning around and driving back, I've never seen this happen before in 10+ years working here

Amazing scenes. There’s a reason Trump/Elon love the executive orders and the king routine, and part of it is: they don’t have the votes to do it constitutionally.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

I’m not tired anymore. I’m ready to find my voice and my role. Who else?

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

“NPR's analysis found that, of its verifiable work completed so far, DOGE has cut just $2 billion in spending — less than three hundredths of a percent of last fiscal year's federal spending.” www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

Viewpoint: The recent executive orders weakening climate policies threaten to exacerbate the climate crisis, and the health care sector must lead in advocating and implementing sustainable practices. ja.ma/4gS0aDS #MedSky

New programs are training docs to protect patients from climate-related risks like extreme heat & wildfire smoke. @insideclimatenews.org spoke to @gaurabbasu.bsky.social about his work @harvard.edu to train a new generation of climate and health leaders: insideclimatenews.org/news/2002202...

SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mexico City block - trees, ample walkways, bike lanes, slim car lanes…. How a city should be built.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

I thought this essay was really powerful. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky

I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...