MARCH DATA: China's cleantech ‘new three’ exports surged by a staggering 39% in March, compared to February, to a staggering $21.9 billion🤯 Solar +121% Batteries +44% EV's +5%

Meanwhile in China...

China won the war.

Pete Buttigieg is still my Tier 1 candidate for 2028. He easily dismantled MAGA 🤡 Joe Kernan on their typical talking points. Most effective messenger for the Democrats.

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

Holy shit. Look at this partial frame of the total solar eclipse captured by Artemis II. Source: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

The Chicago Sun Times @chicago.suntimes.com is better than the Tribune anyways.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

David Roberts - the U.S. is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. And will go down with the fossil fuel ship; and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate. It is rapidly electrifying its economy, dominating the technology, supply chains, world markets, everything

My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: I spoke with MCE's Sam Irvine about why the electricity provider is so bullish on virtual power plants: “This gives us another tool in the toolbox to help keep costs low and generate revenue." www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/this-califor... 🔌💡

Texas is deploying battery storage so fast that it's almost keeping up with the other 49 states... by itself!

HUGE NEWS. We have a state bill; SB3478 - SCA1. Under the bill, CMAP will develop a blueprint for a bike and pedestrian-prioritized street network including 450 miles of safe, slow streets in Chicago and surrounding communities. WE NEED YOU TO SUBMIT WITNESS SLIPS. ilga.gov/Senate/heari... (1/3)

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

"German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed"

Recharging groundwater: New research highlights areas around the world that have managed to halt groundwater declines and boost aquifer levels. One California farm water agency shows what decades of recharge efforts can accomplish. @myungchun.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Sounds like we should do this. Time to upgrade our wind. "Nationwide, repowering could more than double the current capacity of existing U.S. onshore wind farms, to approximately 314 GW, the researchers found. "

There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.

Gophers for the win. Now do Beavers. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

US Democrats urge windfall tax as big oil set to make billions from Iran war US fossil fuel firms could collect an additional $60bn this year Progressive and green groups join call for tax on major fossil-fuel companies to help offset rising living costs www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🔥 Pete Buttigieg is spitting facts! Consider watching and sharing as he is speaking the truth about this incompetent regime.

Chicago is in the Elite 8, of Strong Towns. Vote for Chicago in round 2 over Lancaster PA. www.strongesttown.com

Why does this matter? El Niño adds to climate change, shifting temperature + rainfall patterns around the world. That in turn affects wildfire, flood and drought risk; food, water, and health; and can even double the risk of civil conflict in tropical regions (Source: www.nature.com/articles/nat...)

China sets five year goals and sticks with them. They are predictable over many decades making business decisions easier with more certainty. Meanwhile, depending on who is in charge in the US, the administration does a 180, sometimes just to own the libs. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ira...

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

The US has burned through over 1,000 Patriot interceptors ($4 million each) to stop an onslaught of Iranian drones ($20k to $50k each). Using my last gift link from Bloomberg, which is doing some of the best reporting anywhere on the war. 🎁 🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Benny Johnson gives Rand Paul an open mic to make the case against Trump's war-mongering and fiscal irresponsibility. (this is an extremely rare thing on Johnson's show, which is as safe of a space as there is for Trumpers)

These are designed for 5-7 years and we just burn them up in our atmosphere. An environmental review is absolutely needed.

80 million EVs are on the road globally. That’s already displacing roughly ~2 million barrels of oil every day — about 2% of global demand. Roughly the oil consumption of Italy or South Korea… gone. You can fight the sun, sanction it, bomb it, fear it — but you can’t stop it. #Bettrification

Paris might be one of the most important classrooms for urbanists right now. 🚲 In 5 years, it climbed the Copenhagenize Index faster than any other city. Here Stein Van Oosteren, urban mobility writer, shares why Paris is so interesting from an urban mobility standpoint. #urbanism #cycling

EV battery technology continues to astound! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2026/02/24/s...

Good morning with good news: EV battery recycling surges from today's $2.5 billion market to a $70 billion market by 2040. EU requires in 2030 that 70% of EV battery lithium be recycled. RMI finds EV batteries could be made from 100% recycled materials. thenewswheel.com/2-5-billion-... #energysky

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds - Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year due to the #climatecrisis Analysis by @climatecentral.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US cattle herds down to 1950s levels due mainly to ongoing persistent droughts. In Canada, herd sizes are down for similar reason. So climate-change induced droughts have driven up beef prices by 15% or more, but carbon regulation is the problem? 1/2 www.farmprogress.com/farm-busines...

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Sikorsky said such impacts are already straining security systems worldwide, noting that “militaries around the world (are) deployed to respond to climate disasters,” while competition over food and water resources is intensifying geopolitical tensions. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/climat...

Love this. Rather than allowing Trump/MAGA to flood the zone with hateful agitprop, Democrats need to speak up regularly and forcefully, "We will defend you and your communities from this absolute madness." "We need more immigrants, not fewer." "ICE is bad and immigration is good."

All those kids & nurses & mechanics & service workers that we are deporting? It costs us $133,333 a head. Again: we are spending $133,333 per migrant worker that we deport.

This part. Buttigieg talks about amending the Constitution. The hosts kinda sigh and laugh like it's impossible. Pete replies: We all feel so jaded. But it's not too much to ask. The Founders' idea of not having a King was way more radical than anything we've just talked about.

The US is choosing to be losers in this race. "As the United States doubles down on domestic fossil fuels, China continues to extend its influence around the globe." Why Living in China Is Like ‘Living in the Future’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

The Mojave Desert isn’t barren—it’s alive. 🌱 A rare plant, the threecorner milkvetch, jumped from 12 plants to 93 after a Nevada solar project used a gentler construction method that protected desert seed banks. Newest collab with @grist.org #SolarEnergy #Biodiversity #Ecovoltaics

As US elites bury their heads in the sand, China continues to act on climate change, both domestically and by turning much of its economy into an engine for clean energy exports. Hard to overstate the implications for climate and geopolitics over the coming decades.

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

South #Australia power prices plummeting as it nears 100% renewables, proving to the world relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 % in a year and sometimes going negative. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Of the 52 million jobs created in America since 1989, 51 million, 97%, have been created under Dem Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/

Western-style forest fires have come to the east. "There were 77,850 US wildfires in 2025, and nearly half—49%—ignited east of the Mississippi... Over the past 40 years, the [east and southeast have] seen a 10-fold jump in the frequency of large burns." Nice piece by @jeva.bsky.social

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."