Robert Moses would've loved AI, his department would be generating hundreds of 25-page reports a day

Practicing professional restraint (ignoring climate denial think tank press releases in my inbox)

Not now zombie mushrooms

Clean energy is cheaper energy and we should build more of it faster.

It’s also carbon-free, cheaper to operate, and won’t explode in your basement. www.canarymedia.com/articles/hea...

Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator. Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.

New wind farm dropped

Remember when the Trump Administration paid a bunch of offshore wind developers to *not* build offshore wind? Invenergy was one of them, and they're using their $765 million check from the Feds to build geothermal (yay!) and nat gas (boo hiss) — no details on how much for each.

Installing induction stoves and heat pumps for methane gas at home is an investment that will make you safer and richer. We should have the billionaires and trillionaires just pay for it. Not even joking. 4/n

I want a Costco "home energy affordability" pack where I can get some solar panels, batteries, a heat pump, heat pump water heater, and an induction stove in one huge package. Bonus: pair it with rebates and a bridge loan.

Solar + batteries keep getting cheaper, so we're building them more and more — and it shows: ☀️ Solar outperformed coal nationwide in May 🔋 California's batteries provided 44% of demand one evening in March ⚡️ Texas grid was 87% carbon-free one day in March www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Yeah if my headphones start coming with "cameras for AI" I'm going back to my half-dozen wired earbuds in the bottom of a drawer from 10 years ago

ICE just arrested a man at Snelling and Lincoln in St. Paul. I believe he is an activist. His partner has the car and his phone and is calling for a lawyer.

Charges are being filed against multiple people “for conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers,” and for efforts to allegedly “violently oppose immigration law enforcement,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Minnesota. More details to come... www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ALERT 🚨 Federal agents are being seen across our community as they arrest observers. Let me be clear, alerting our neighbors about ICE activity is not a crime, observing is not a crime, and loving your immigrant neighbors is not a crime. 1/

Some mondays you have a pot of coffee and somehow still need more coffee

Fela Kuti, Austin Kleon, Louis L'Amour, and 10 other things I'm recommending this week: blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-...

Absolutely massive scoop by @emilypont.bsky.social: The Trump administration is giving up defending the president's offshore wind permitting freeze in court

"She and her dog, Mozzarella, a 4-year-old mixed breed," Loving the attention to detail

I used to listen to Van Halen for hours and hours on my ipod shuffle at my teenage job pressure washing hog barns at a CAFO. And surprise, surprise: after using a pressure washer to clean some concrete this week, Van Halen's made a BIG comeback in my music streaming this week. SO GOOD

Minnesotan hubris (wearing pants in June)

If you're not an electricity nerd I can attest this is a wonderful, celebratory thing

This electric co-op’s threat to turn off electric service to a tribe when they wanted to build BTM solar always seemed harsh and unnecessary to me. But it also sounds like the co-op’s SIS itself was pretty sloppy, intentional or not. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Somewhere along the way my main hobby became “listen to audiobooks while doing chores”

Wild to me that we have climate solutions and they’re affordable and we have money to fund stuff and then www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The U.S. just opened its largest solar cell factory, more than doubling the amount of solar cells we can make domestically. We've only had 3 companies making solar cells, each capable of about 1 GW a year. The new Qcells plant (thanks Biden) will make 3.3 GW a year.

I just want an electric subaru baja with a 3 1/2 foot bed c'mon

Back on my BS (reading about fossil fuel propaganda)

if we're going serious about improving quality of life in minnesota, we need more of these around the state. hundreds more. maybe thousands.

If you think I'll be enticed to buy the Ocarina of Time or Halo 1 remakes, you'd probably be right, unfortunately, because I only play video games now that I played as a kid and this nostalgia-bait is incredibly effective on millenials

It’s been 1,035 days since my Congressman held an in-person town hall

Feeling smug and insufferable www.startribune.com/minnesota-to...

Have just been made aware there is an even-larger size of Bustello that exists (Festival Size at 46 oz., compared to the previously-thought-the-largest Party Size at 36 oz.) and I am so excited

Real "that funny feeling" vibes that EVs can cost more to insure than ICE cars — and premiums are higher in states with higher climate risks/more climate-driven extreme weather like hurricanes and flooding.

I need Lavazza to know I'm going to eat these www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/l...

Oh WOW this is really sad; I'm sad they mega-paywalled their work earlier but closing E&E News is a huge blow to energy journalism

We spent the winter defending our way of life and in a single June weekend — with pencil sharpening, Grand Old Day, Tour de Luce, Open Streets, Twins, Lynx, Saints, etc — we are living it.

Sometimes your hometown really disappoints you. Real ones know the best part of town is the Kiwanis Popcorn Stand anyway. A bucket with butter and root beer, watching the pelicans at the hydroelectric dam, chatting with neighbors. www.startribune.com/rural-minnes...

Today, the MnPUC issued a decision largely maintaining utilities’ existing natural gas line extension policies. We are proud of the thorough, data-driven analysis that Fresh Energy and MCEA provided in this docket, even though we were hoping the Commission would take stronger action on this issue.

Great time for Minnesota to lead with green ammonia, using local & clean electricity to make fertilizer with lower carbon emissions. kstp.com/kstp-news/lo...

UPDATE: Today the Minnesota PUC voted to maintain Line Extension Allowances with new monitoring requirements, uniform distance fresh-energy.org/minnesota-pu...

Paying more for dirtier energy is bad policy and we're getting really sick of this.

I'm a broken record on this but climate change is making Minnesota's summers much worse and I'm mad about it.

It's true! Minnesota's on the cusp of some VERY interesting industrial decarb projects

Extreme heat killed 3,400 people in India in five days. Extreme climate events will continue to impact our lives and our livelihoods. We already have most of the climate solutions. We need to deploy, and we need leaders to push for that. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/e...

I've really been missing out on Blood Orange, this band is phenomenal

It's been a great time to buy a used EV for YEARS now, but with record-high gas prices, now is an EXCELLENT time to buy a used EV. Here's how: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

This is my nightmare fuel

10 things I found interesting this week, featuring Fred again.., CRT TVs from @racketmn.com, John McPhee, Hanif Abdurraqib, and typewriters (again) blog.isakkvam.com/post/friday-...