Methane Response Basecamps get $100M from Bloomberg. End-to-end systems for detection from space through on-the-ground trained teams to respond to super emitters with action & policy. Cool! www.globalmethanehub.org/2025/11/06/m...

Anyone who cares about climate will be pissed off about this bullshit www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...

FERC is advancing a huge controversial gas pipeline through 5 states in the South Eastern US, next to a 30 day comment period. No public hearings are scheduled. appvoices.org/2025/10/31/f...

Nice: Google Earth pro users can now use Gemini AI chat to explore climate change consequences and plan disaster response. Good use of AI. grist.org/technology/g...

Interesting take on Gates from a real insider: this comparison between China's deployment-focused approach and Western innovation focus (pushed by Gates) paints a real picture for why the two countries have looked so different in terms of, well deployment.

Devastating. Must-read gut punch of a post about a quiet hero, the nitty gritty of stand-out climate coverage, and the Trump era silencing of this stand-out voice in mainstream media.

Now imagine if that was said after Biden bulldozed the entire West Wing with zero approval/oversight. Now imagine this is happening while Biden is sending the military into “red” cities and blowing up boat after boat in international waters. It’s insane.

Great podcast: War on Cars interviewed on Volts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Disappointed by the internet, I just disabled comments on a WordPress blog. It has come to this.

Important, terrifying, depressing, important. www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

If you want good news: I just saved a bird’s life. My cat came home with one in his mouth, I made him drop it, and it flew away.

Sign of the times: You can now get Scouting badges in AI and cybersecurity. Good. www.fastcompany.com/91421962/the...

These floating solar panels move in the wind and capture sun both directly and reflecting off the water. Cool! www.designboom.com/technology/f...

Every night, fish living in the deepest parts of the ocean rise to the surface & eat plankton, taking the carbon in the plankton down into the bottom of the ocean. The equivalent of 2x the exhaust of all cars on earth. Will a vote pass to conserve those deep sea fish? earth.org/the-oceans-m...

Emodiversity: “In 2017, positive psychology researchers published findings that suggested emodiversity-which they defined as ‘the breadth and relative abundance of emotions that individuals experience’ - is more significant to wellness than happiness…

Open Lunar Foundation launches the Lunar Ledger Project, an open and transparent ledger of lunar activities (of which many, many, many are planned in the next few years) www.openlunar.org/blog/ledger-...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

I don’t want to reduce manual labor. I want to pay people better and treat them better for manual labor.

Amazing how much things have changed politically in the last 20 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhmp...

Rationing just fuel and electricity, argues @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, could get us out of this climate mess and be far less statist than many other potential solutions.

Big day over here.

Doctorow on McKibben’s new book on solar is a great read pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...

Delightful lesson from history (1937!), help with digital addiction and its consequences.

Somehow Marc Andreesen manages to even ruin something as beautiful as *writing things down.* I watched this A16Z short hoping it would be about the connection between writing & creating value. But no, he made it about power. And individual capture of value. youtube.com/shorts/2gSh-...

Anthropic: countries with low Claude use are "more likely to delegate complete tasks (automation), while high-adoption areas tend toward greater learning and human-AI iteration (augmentation)." My take: augmentation is more sophisticated & learned from peers. www.anthropic.com/research/ant...

You know what I’ve got on my mind? Nitrogen fertilizer, when applied sub-optimally, is only partially absorbed by plants & results soil bacteria producing nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300X more powerful than CO2. Farmers need to be incentivized to manage fertilizers much better.

“OPML as civic infrastructure.” Yes!

This is why I have never understood the idea that Black people focus on slavery too much. Baby, it's the historical equivalent of last week. We're not even 200 years post slavery.

It's a two-way network, too. When I was working as a journalist, we'd not only aim to get our stories on @techmeme.com - but we'd get real-time push notifications of every story that hit Techmeme from someone else. Any sources that beat us twice, we would go upstream & monitor their feeds closely.

This is awesome!! lifehacker.com/tech/youtube...

Scope 4 emissions??? Apparently that's from @worldresources.bsky.social avoided emissions. I had an AI write a limerick about it: "There once was a scope known as Four, GHG Protocol said, 'We’ll ignore! It’s tricky to count, Makes double amounts, So for now, it’s just folklore galore!'" Hah! Hmmm

Have you ever seen police put on this own “PRESS” badge?!? I can’t find any record of it before this. Good coverage here doublesidedmedia.com/2025/08/15/e...

You know how all those federal grants were killed for nonprofit groups? 5 of them won in court today and got a temporary injunction on the ending of their grants!

Either I described this really poorly, I don’t have credibility yet in this field, or this isn’t the huge deal I think it is. But I really do think it’s a huge deal!

Trump administration loses big court case brought by 5 sustainability organizations. Grant cancelation may have been "capricious" - judge issued a temporary injunction against grant cancelation today www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

There’s a whole lot of stupid in 2025: A briefing book on Tesla.sexy, the business providing AI moderation bots for Russian Discord servers, owned by Big Balls when he was 16. www.perplexity.ai/search/b2ca3...

A time clock app for software developers once wrote that its “most productive” 10% of users averaged work sprints of 52 minutes, followed by 17 minute breaks. I’m trying that today & it feels great.

“The most important part of the harvest is what you do not take, what you leave behind. Because that is what ensures the vitality, the perpetuity, of your system.” Lyla June Johnston, Architects of Abundance (25:00) youtu.be/zpLoNzE4fSc?...

This is as good as I’d hoped, 25 mins in, and I had high hopes! overcast.fm/+AAK4d9_N32E

“You can have anything you want” has historically involved some trade-offs, right? Come at a cost? Are we presuming that’s no longer the case with today’s technologies? I’d sure like to see that discussed whenever we talk about new tech. Hard to trust it otherwise.

GPT-5 launch livestream starts in 15 minutes, at 10am PST. I'll be listening to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...

Having an unusual background for your job isn’t very unusual these days. So you don’t have to start out the story of your career with that comment, ok?

Surprisingly good case study imho trellis.net/article/klea...

“Patterns inform strategy; details determine success.” A delightful saying from permaculture! Helps prevent premature optimization of details before understanding the whole, and ungrounded theory without on-the-ground specifics.

Smart take on apocalypse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t panic, that’s what actuaries at insurance firms are for. And they are freaking out. Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say: bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... via Buckminster Fuller Institute

To think we are facing existential risk because some people insist on selling their favorite way to spin magnets. Even though there are better, safer ways to do it!

Any day I get to intro someone on how to use an RSS reader before 8am is officially a good day!