Anyone on here live in Brooklyn and participate in Con Ed's "Smart usage partner" program? (basically a demand response program)? Curious which partner you went with and about your experience!

In light of policy arguments over the cost of climate action, a trio of economists ask: how much is climate change costing Americans right now? heatmap.news/economy/clim...

Between July 2024 and June 2025, the Southeast continued to experience record-setting growth in EV sales, with Florida leading the charge ⚡ To see how your state performed, check out our “Transportation Electrification in the Southeast” report: bit.ly/SACEETReport25 🔌💡

The end of coal in California ⬇️

Welcome to another day where the failures of the dominant system are apparent & existentially threatening but the infrastructure of life sustaining societies is fragile or yet to be created. Keeping building anyway. And give yourself some grace for the contradictions inherent in this stage of things

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ICYMI a chance to preserve educational / interpretive info that matters… National Parks, Smithsonian Museums, etc: sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of new power globally came from #cleanenergy sources. 🔌💡 Announced in July: solar power is now on average 41% cheaper than fossil fuels. Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day

“domination wears many masks,” writes John Seed journal.workthatreconnects.org/2025/09/29/r... @workthatreconnects.bsky.social via latest Deep Times Journal

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Why are electric bills so high? If your monopoly utility spends $10 million on wires and transformers, your state will let them increase prices to recover the $10M plus ~$1M per year, every year for the foreseeable future. You and your neighbors will pay ~$35M for ~$10M of infrastructure.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Extreme summer heat is our new reality - an intensifying crisis straining health, infrastructure, and wallets. ”when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept the power on: it was clean energy” 🔌💡 www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...

🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of new power globally came from #cleanenergy sources. 🔌💡 Announced in July: solar power is now on average 41% cheaper than fossil fuels. Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?

⬇️ Connect the dots, people — ! yes:

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ht / @ketanjoshi.co for elevating the plagiarism & thievery.

This will likely be excellent 🔌💡 ⬇️

Extreme summer heat is our new reality - an intensifying crisis straining health, infrastructure, and wallets. ”when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept the power on: it was clean energy” 🔌💡 www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...

Research - The drying of the Ganga river, of great economic and cultural importance to millions of people in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, is “unprecedented in the last 1,300 years” #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The House GOP Judiciary Committee witness is dead wrong about "one state" setting AI standards. A blanket AI moratorium is a blank check for Big Tech that undermines laws in ALL 50 STATES. Learn more about which laws would be impacted. Read @publiccitizen.bsky.socialanalysis here.

Amazing work from former climate.gov staff. The Fifth National Climate Assessment is accessible again online!

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🔌💡 #Greensky Hi All. I've written up some notes with links to resources for anyone who wants to understand and make the case for grid-scale batteries in their community, as we did in Poughkeepsie. Feel free to share. And for the many people on here who know more than me – please help me improve it.

Tahiti IS In Europe ! ⬇️ RIP Robert Redford

“Consumers shouldn’t have to choose between comfort or financial stability and keeping the lights on,” said Katherine Hamilton, Acting Executive Director 🔌⚡️ commoncharge.org

Taxpayers foot 63% of crop insurance payouts & climate change is driving up costs. Far less funding goes to conservation practices which could help lower those costs. @anneschech.bsky.social @ewg-official.bsky.social @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social @civileats.com civileats.com/2025/09/10/a...

If you're an early-career journalist, consider applying for @theopennotebook.bsky.social's paid, mentored fellowship and follow in the footsteps of @katherinejwu.com, @janehu.bsky.social, @sciwriabdul.bsky.social, @1juliarosen.bsky.social, @celiaford.bsky.social and many more! Deadline: 10/31.

Gotta turn this around somehow… 🤔 I wonder whether the new analysis showing that corporations ARE planning to replace *many* jobs with AI will matter? bsky.app/profile/keta...

"Arguably the biggest story happening in the world right now and also the most hopeful." ―Chris Hayes Join @billmckibben.bsky.social on tour for his new book HERE COMES THE SUN. Details / tickets: billmckibben.com/events/

Please join us at our second "Multisolving Moment" a pop up virtual space to together explore the challenges and opportunities of complex systems change in tumultuous times. This time the theme is community building. Sept 25 at 1PM ET www.climateweeknyc.o...

Scientists found that phthalates act as "anti-androgens", blocking production of testosterone in utero. In boys, that can lead to decreased fertility much later in life, and higher rates of birth defects.

New Mexico communities! We have got energy efficiency funding for you! This is state funding, not federal. It will not get yanked away. Go get efficient energy for your folks who need it most!

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All you who are parenting in the midst of climate change, mis- and disinformation, economic uncertainty, waves of illness, and the opposite of the ethics you are trying to impart in the highest of places, I see you!

It’s use-it-or-lose-it time for federal energy efficiency tax credits. This @rewiringamerica.bsky.social‬ campaign aims to make sure everyone takes advantage before it's too late. www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

I’m aware it was a holiday weekend and there’s a lot of newsy content rn, but it seems no energy nerd has yet posted here about the 2025 USEER, released (quietly) by DOE last Friday. 🤔 #jobs Soon, methinks…

Heat pumps: poorly named, incredibly efficient machines. What are they? How do they work? And why does everyone in the world have Heat Pump Madness except for us? www.greenjuice.wtf/heat-pumps/ #energysky #heatpumps #energy

If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Can building community change the world? Can it support us as shocks shake the systems we depend on? Does multisolving building community? Or does community building enable multisolving? If questions like these interest you please join us in reflection and conversation. bit.ly/ClimateWeek25...

What's the word for the mix of happy and sad that happens when an important part of your vision for the future begins to happen but your nation-state is not only sitting it out but trying to slow it? More happy than sad though. Happy for Africa, for China, for the world!

On most of the world’s land, solar can generate 100x more energy per acre vs biofuels A solar powered EV can go 300x as many miles as a biofuel powered vechicle per acre #EnergySky

GIGO…

Whoa. 🍿🍿🍿

“Cutting Solar for All funding would be a mistake, said Michelle Moore [Groundswell CEO]. Over the next 5 years, the program promises to deliver >$350M in annual electric bill savings to >900,000 low-income and disadvantaged households — desperately needed relief [for] rising utility costs.”