I'm looking forward to Climate Week in NYC. I will be there and my colleagues @projectdrawdown.bsky.social will be making some exciting announcements! drawdown.org/news/project...

"A republic, if you can keep it" -- Benjamin Franklin

Excited to see @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social tomorrow to learn about the most impactful climate actions! Join the webinar 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Breaking — FEMA Acting Chief Counsel Colt Hagmaier just resigned in an email to staff. He's worked at the agency for more than a decade. Hagmaier's resignation comes immediately after two FEMA employees were placed on leave for comments about Charlie Kirk. Text of his email shared with me:

You’ve put over 1,000 events on the No Kings Day map in under a week. Find your local peaceful protest, start a new event, and find everything you need to know about the next nationwide day of defiance on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Humans: sometimes bad, sometimes good, capable of great. Me, in today’s @theguardian.com Long Read www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

“Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes… “

New York City’s Manhattan Island was the site of the nation’s first Labor Day parade on September 5, 1882. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15473...

journalists are being threatened and jailed. media outlets are paying settlements to THE PRESIDENT. but gosh golly gee, is democracy under threat? who can really say!

It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.

Recommended read: A California state legislator and the president of the California Farm Bureau wrote in the @nytimes.com how immigration raids on farmworkers increase food waste and drive up prices.

National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)

This is the single biggest problem with our food system. It is absurdly inefficient. Less than half of what we grow ends up on our plates. Great work by Paul West and other Project Drawdown colleagues. www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

It’s funny to hear Trump aides accuse wind and solar farms of overusing land, because the corn ethanol they love uses 100X as much land per unit of energy. Land is great at growing food and storing carbon; it sucks at growing fuel.

How am I? The president of the united states getting advice from a murderous dictator on how to hold elections has me on edge.

Photo from the International Space Station: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos...

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

Newsom: “Wake up, America. If he rigs this election, you won’t have a country anymore.”

BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov’s press conference in Little Tokyo has just been crashed by a massive CBP presence…witnesses report 50 vehicles and 100+ agents left the MDC toward Little Tokyo. From the gov’s press office:

COMING UP: Judge Charles Breyer is set to preside over a bench trial in Newsom v. Trump The suit, brought by Governor Gavin Newsom, challenges Trump’s use of federal military forces to enforce immigration in California. I plan to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵

interesting! I note that this is self funded, meaning that the NAS is paying for the report. I wonder how this will go over with the administration.

The momentum is unstoppable⚡️ The @iea.org says renewables will overtake coal as the world’s top electricity source by 2026 at the latest. Driven by booming wind & solar growth and rising global electricity demand 📈🌍 @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social eos.org/research-and...

The future will be electric. You can’t hold back progress; But you can get left behind. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋 www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

“If you want to reduce climate change in the short term, it’s really important for us to focus on short-lived climate pollutants, which include methane. It’s also important for us to focus on protecting natural ecosystems,” - Emily Cassidy, PD Fellow @enviroem.bsky.social @sentientmedia.org

The NWS has issued 3,100+ flash flood warnings so far this year—that's more than the 2,874 flash flood warnings issued during the entire year of 2020.

was just thinking that heat -> grumpiness -> ill-informed political decisions which is almost certainly not incorporated into climate models

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

HOLD THE LINE. AGAINST THE PEOPLE WHO PICK STRAWBERRIES.

Looking for hopeful news in dark times? Read this excerpt from @billmckibben.bsky.social's powerful new book:

The passage of the big __😮‍💨__ bill is not going to stop climate progress in the US. While it does mean we have a bigger hill to climb, the long term future of energy will inevitably be green. @sfchronicle.com @globalecoguy.bsky.social reminds us it’s not game over, it’s game on.

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

Where we are as a country: "The funding in the bill will make ICE the largest jailer in the world, with $200 billion at their disposal." newrepublic.com/article/1975...

Meanwhile, the Democrats who have already voted are live on the Capitol steps railing against the #BigUglyBill

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Good news! #USAID FEWS NET is back up fews.net The continuous monitoring of acute food insecurity is critical if we are to understand the stability of food systems in our ever more turbulent world. Increasingly frequent conflict, climate, and price shocks make FEWS NET more important than ever

Area physician expresses surprise that the anti-vax nutjob he supported to run HHS is anti-vax

Neat image released @esa.int shows a glacier flowing into Ross Ice Shelf. The new Biomass mission's P-band radar is designed to penetrate the forest canopy, but it can also penetrate into ice and is less affected by surface characteristics that can skew measurements. www.esa.int/Applications...

Very sincerely, every bit of travel we do in an EV, on a train, on a bus, on a bike/e-bike, by walking or rolling, or by other active transport, helps the climate, helps air quality, and helps national & economic security. We should fund these as national security infrastructure.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This could be awful for everyone, especially Indigenous communities. I also wonder how much carbon is in these forests and wilderness areas 🌳

New research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies finds that the contraction of the world's storm-cloud zones may be a big contributor to the increase in Earth's sunlight absorption. Great coverage by @avoiland.bsky.social at Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...