Was great to chat with @meadwaj.bsky.social @macrodosepod.bsky.social about the energy transition, resource extraction, capitalism, global north-south inequality & Left strategy amid the polycrisis that accelerates daily. In collab with @alameda.institute. Listen podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Centrists tell us we have to choose between economic populism and climate ambition. They're wrong. With *green economic populism* we can tackle climate and the cost-of-living crises together. Today @cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new research and policy agenda to move us forward. 🧵

Been reading Moby Dick—so good! Love this story. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ironic and tragic: while sewer socialism thrives in New York, Trump's war threatens bus and sewer service in Japan. archive.is/D38hj

What a day! @triofrancos.bsky.social, @aldasky.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social came to Wesleyan University and blew our minds. Watching people operate with that much rigor and generosity- is genuinely restorative. Makes you want to go back to the desk and do better work. Thank you!

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Friends, here’s the info for my Dad’s memorial. Please do RSVP here (and you can register for livestreaming too). www.bit.ly/honouringste...

NEW: Report with @uawregion6.bsky.social and @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social shows how the California Grid Manufacturing Initiative can lower bills, bring green union jobs, and accelerate climate progress. This would deliver: - 12k union jobs - $200B cumulative savings by 2050 - rapid climate action

This @dechant.bsky.social story comes close to my point, but doesn't quite get there. Powering data centers from gas turbines can raise wholesale gas and electricity prices, but also retail gas prices if states let utilities spread tech companies' gas interconnection costs over all ratepayers.

If you are not reading these epic threads, why are you even on social media?

Ok, but where is the emergency wealth tax and redistribution, to ensure that working people don't bear the burden of energy austerity?

Mamdani nails it again. As @triofrancos.bsky.social & I argued in NYT, green economic populism means tackling the climate crisis & working people's cost of living at the same time. We need better transit, better EV infrastructure, better rideshare options. Many needs ➡️ many policies.

It's devastating to learn that Stephen Lewis has died. And I'm so glad he got to see his son Avi win the NDP leadership. Avi won on values that Stephen devoted to his life to. As a young man, I was lucky to see Stephen speak in public—he was a legendary, inspiring orator 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's hard to overstate the magnitude of @avilewis.ca's landslide election as NDP leader. His campaign was laser-focused on Canadians' cost-of-living crisis—and called out the genocide in Gaza. Sound familiar? And he made the case for a muscular public sector—from public groceries to a GND. Exciting!

really good stuff here on climate rhetoric and housing policy from @aldasky.bsky.social climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Yesssssssss

Giant protests normalize becoming political with your friends. I was a baby gay who didn't know anything except my friends were all going out and I wanted to be with them in 2012. Now my political project is about race, class, gender, climate, and collective control of our energy infrastructure.

Last chance to back Canada’s brilliant and visionary left leader!!

New episode of the pod is out, debunking popular myths about electric vehicles and exploring research-based strategies to combat those myths Particularly timely as gas prices drive up interest in EVs

Big news!

Welcome to Trump's cost-of-mobility crisis. Blue cities & states could rapidly expand areas covered by frequent bus routes & cut average headways in half. States could issue emergency subsidies for purchasing EVs priced under 40k, with a higher subsidy for union-built. Fund by taxing the rich.

The idea that cutting carbon pollution is remote from everyday life is an extremeley well-funded rightwing talking point. We climate hawks have to work extra hard to connect the dots between decarb and everyday life. But we should never feel shame re the mission of cutting carbon.

Today’s msm is ever more easily spun by powerful governmental actors. NY’s msm has been paving the way for Hochul to gut the climate law. They’ve been portraying this fight as a trade off between lower bills and reducing pollution. That’s Hochul and the gas lobby’s lying spin. So much damage. 🤬

K-shaped recovery

Beyond rationing & work-from-home orders, there's another Covid parallel: the K-shaped recovery. But for energy transition. China's poised to double down on green; many fossil-scarce Asian neighbors could follow. Green go up. The US is doubling down on fossil. Green go down.

Headlines going around again today about the $1 billion payment from the US government to Total as the details solidify, so reupping my post about this from last week

It’s time for blue states to build high-road public storage reserves to max clean power resilience. Our universities can finesse battery chemistry w unionized grad workers, US factories can build them w union labor, and unionized workers can install batteries at scale. www.ft.com/content/b122...

Nowruz mubarak!

Countries that *did* deploy a lot of renewables & electrification are already faring better than they otherwise would have . Here are some examples: 1/ Pakistan, still highly exposed to Gulf LNG supply crunch BUT estimated to save $12 billion due to solar boom: www.linkedin.com/posts/lauri-...

In what should be a surprise to no one, the US and Israeli attack on Iran has serious climate consequences. Our new analysis, covered in @theguardian.com this morning, tallies the climate costs of the first two weeks of the attacks.

Yooooo! I was interviewed for @volts.wtf podcast!!! It’s on the big fight in New York, where our corporate Dem governor’s pushing to roll back the climate law. If she succeeds, NY goes backward and gets higher costs. Let’s stop THAT and go forward on clean energy! www.volts.wtf/p/the-high-s...

Join us this Saturday for our final virtual rally before members choose the next leader of the federal NDP! I am thrilled to be joined by incredible guests & supporters from across the country. Come hear how we’re organizing to win, feel the energy, & help us meet this moment. avilewis.link/Rally

In theory, this war should spur countries to invest in green energy. But war doesn't do the work of climate politics. Short term, money flows into securing fossil fuels. It's the "fortress of solitude" logic I've seen after climate shocks—local fortification of the status quo. t.co/KWXKmG07y2

This is just an appreciation post for @70sbachchan.bsky.social and his threads. If there's one account that you need to follow on Bsky, it’s this one.

Anxious and angry about forever wars over energy? Want to do something to make a better world happen sooner? i have good news. Electricity is the backbone for everything in our future, and you can do something now. Instead of feeling hopeless, you can join in with others to change everything.

Absolutely essential thread. Never has it been more urgent for us to transition from fossil fuels—and yet this war, which makes that so painfully clear, is paradoxically making it even less likely.

Big picture, the Ramadan War is a classic 21st c climate war. Not a war over CO2 emissions, but a war over the organization of energy, fossil energy in particular, waged as a battle over the infrastructure that extracts and moves fossil fuels & related resources across the earth.

Mamdani's challenge: though neoliberalism is dead politically, it's alive and well in New York City's economy. The city's biggest revenue source is property taxes; >40% of income tax revenue comes from the top 1%. NYC's govt depends on property speculation & stock market. 1/3

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

I humbly submit that a hit piece in the far-right Daily Mail is not how leftists should be thinking about Graham Plattner's candidacy. I know many ppl w takes on Plattner's interviews who didn't watch or read the interviews. Ppl can make up their own mind! But please engage his stuff directly.

"China has been quietly constructing an alternative model—one in which energy security flows not from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf but from solar panels in Xinjiang, battery factories in Jiangsu as well as coal mines in the North-West." geoeconomic.substack.com/p/energy-res...

Someone is winning the war giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

How do I know affluent places are going to heat pumps? From experts, yes, but also here are 4 new heat pump systems I can see from my deck in the upscale nabe I live in (cobble hill/carroll gardens). It’s a bad result if everyone else is stuck paying more, with more pollution! 🧵

Spanish socialism offers a lifeline. “Mr. Sánchez is pursuing an ambitious decarbonization push… large-scale public investment in green technology could kill two birds with one stone, providing a major economic jolt and reducing America’s leverage over Europe.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

Cheap drones are "democratizing" massive destruction, revolutionizing war. Since modern life relies on vulnerable infrastructure, "mutually assured destruction" is universal now. Forget nukes. Anyone can smash other countries' access to energy & water. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cos...

1/ "Higher energy, fertilizer and transport costs – including freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums – may increase food costs and intensify cost-of-living pressures, particularly for the most vulnerable." Excellent report by UNCTAD unctad.org/system/files...

Hope is a rare and fragile thing — but it’s here. The NDP is roaring back to life with the organizing and ideas to meet this historic moment.  Voting is now open. Cast your ballot today and join us in going all in on hope. youtu.be/5SVomjUulf4

This war shows why we should get off fossil fuels—and why its so hard. What can be done? —Invest in unionized, resilient green energy, transit, EV supply chains —Invest in affordable climate policies ppl can touch, eg heat pumps & stoves —Overall, build working class support for green transition

If we need to triage fertilizer, we should look to where it's most useless: ethanol (not food) and animal feed (an ultimately inefficient way of producing food). Food not fuel or feed = less demand for land and fertilizer/other inputs + less externalities. www.ft.com/content/7efe...