Every Midwestern climate person making small talk this month: "Look I am really enjoying this pleasant weather but it is CONCERNINGLY warm for late March. What a treat to be done with winter, though. But AGAIN..."

We can address the climate crisis, the affordability squeeze, and the housing shortage all at once. This Cohasset home shows us how - and offers a glimpse into MN's sustainable buildings future. 🏡⚡🔌 My latest: fresh-energy.org/could-this-c...

Dang, well, at least the good news is that climate change is still happening despite being forgotten by most people since about 2020 or so??

It's way cheaper to build new things to be climate-friendly now than to retrofit them in the future. The UK might require new homes to have solar panels and heat pumps starting in 2028. Smart policy! www.powermag.com/uk-governmen...

This map tracks; my home insurance premium had a HEFTY increase last year

Happy to see this and excited for more in the Midwest. Solar and storage are super affordable and fast to build compared to other energy sources. Let's build more 💪💪

owls should be bigger

For the first time, America can produce enough grid batteries to meet our surging demand for them. That's great, because it lets us use more affordable wind and solar more often. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Enhanced geothermal can now be built in 3-6 years instead of 7-10. Big deal! Natural gas plants take 8+ years to build now. www.utilitydive.com/news/enhance...

We got the N64 plugged into an old CRT TV, it’s the weekend y’all

The best time to decarbonize was forty years ago. The second best time is today.

Jeez maybe our historic investments in clean energy manufacturing shouldn't have been cut to give tax cuts to the rich.

Excited for everyone who's newly motivated to get an electric vehicle or heat pump, but we need more financial programs to help everyone switch. It's expensive to be stuck on oil.

Ski resorts in the Rockies closing their season in March isn't normal

In junior high I printed out like five pages of chuck norris jokes and taped them inside my locker, we loved him

It's 2026 and I still see "6 passive income ideas for [niche]" articles and one will be like "start a YouTube channel" or "sell print on demand merch" and it's hilarious that they think either of those are passive.

Very much welcome spring and the return of non-resident birds but also v. sad at the end of winter. I yearn for snow and cold and darkness.

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

Weird how when fossil fuel advocates tell us to drive less or stay home it’s “just the way the world works sometimes” but if climate people suggest it it’s an existential threat to freedom and prosperity.

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

Writing about climate on an empty stomach, overcaffeinated, blaring megan thee stallion, as intended.

I've profiled a few dozen climate professionals and EVERY single one had a formative outdoorsy experience as a kid that led them to their career. In MN, 9 times out of 10 it's a Boundary Waters experience (or Lake Superior).

Nice move by Minnesota PUC. Taxpayers funding public servants =/= captive ratepayers funding executives of Fortune 500 companies. No reason the latter should be funded at a higher rate than the former. www.eenews.net/articles/min...

my contribution to oil war discourse

We should spend $200b on an equitable clean energy transition instead of another unpopular war.

$200B, the Pentagon's insane ask for the illegal Iran war, is comparable to all planned spending on energy and climate over *10 years* in Biden's signature bill, which Trumpists almost completely repealed last summer.

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Our clean energy transition isn't just making MN better, it's saving us a boatload of money, too. Long-anticipated report is out this week: Our state will be paying $20 billion every year in climate damage in the next few decades. www.startribune.com/report-minne...

Fossil fuel misinformation folks love to act like wind/solar are improperly priced bc of subsidies and capacity factors, and then they conveniently pretend that fossil fuel costs of pollution/climate change and wars for oil don't exist

I really appreciated this @startribune.com long fact check of statements made by the Feds before during and after their occupation of Minnesota. The results will not surprise you.

It’s great time to buy an EV! Gas is up $0.87/gallon in Minnesota to a state avg. of $3.43. EVs are way under the equivalent of $1/gallon and it’s charged up every morning.

Ok @mattyglesias.bsky.social you’ve got to stop lying about this. The majority of independents DO NOT WANT more fossil fuels. What they DO want is more solar, wind, and nuclear.

Fine I’ll restart the donkey Kong trilogy on snes

One of the gas stations in my hometown closed, they removed the pumps and scraped away the dirt, and now it's entering its next phase (my guess is another pizza restaurant, bc that's all my town wants). BUT: cool to see fossil infrastructure get converted for new uses.

In a first: electric trucks outsold diesel trucks in China last December, a year when their truck market overall grew by 21%. Cleaner vehicles saw 198% growth in Dec '25 compared to Dec '24. www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...

I feel like data centers have taken up all the oxygen in the room about electricity and energy trends. Batteries are getting really cheap, and they're starting to make sizable contributions to the electric grid. And they're getting much better/cheaper for EVs, too.

This is dumb. No one wants to pay more to *not* build affordable, clean energy. File under "Policies that make energy more expensive make our energy more expensive."

I need to know who gets to select the music #mnleg uses before its committee meetings

All my wikipedia friends gotta use Britannica from time to time, too. Great resource, and if you search things using a web search instead of the website's search you get no paywalls.

Carbon-free electricity making up the bulk of the Midwest electricity (MISO) during today's blizzard in Minnesota 🔌⚡️

The only upside of being sick is how much better the second or third cup of coffee is when you’re all foggy

Me every day it's sunny and there are blue skies: "this could heal me"

It's like the opposite of Schrodinger's Cat, where I'm going to be disappointed either way.

I think RSS is making a comeback, I've seen it crop up waaay more often lately in online convos

Based on previous ICE behavior I think we can assume ICE literally thought “it would intimidate people if we flew a drone right outside their home” and then did that.

Complaining about fossil fuel disinformation is kind of my thing but at least I feel really validated about it.

An emotionally challenging & also proud moment: The MN House unanimously voted to rename MN's community solar garden (CSG) program after Speaker Emerita Hortman. She authored the 2013 CSG bill, which caused solar to grow from 1 MW to over 3 GW today. Just one example of the good she did for MN.💔

Stoked about this profile of billy in 5280. I spent a few summers at RMBL (LOVED it!!) and he taught me about plants, how to play cricket, and is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. 5280.com/winter-final...

An EY and Eurelectric study "argues that switching a corporate fleet from gas to electric could cut total vehicle operating costs by as much as 50%." insideevs.com/news/789268/... via @robdrivescars.com 🔌💡

Wind and solar are the two biggest resources on the Midwest’s electric grid (MISO) right now. Never seen that before :)