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Accelerating clean energy solutions to the climate crisis. Nonprofit based in Seattle and Portland.
Oregon has made a lot of progress on smart policies to tackle the climate crisis and transition to affordable, clean energy for all. But we can't afford to let up now. Booming data centers and federal environmental rollbacks are setting us back.
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Energy affordability! Thanks to the community groups backing Oregon's FAIR Act, NW Natural customers are protected from out-of-control rate hikes. This week's 5.4% is far less than the utility wanted to impose, and will be the only increase for the next 18 months.
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NW Natural customers’ bills to increase by more than 5%
This will be the one of the first major utility rate hikes since lawmakers passed a set of laws that seek to prevent rate hikes during winter months.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/30/nw-natural-bill-increase/
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How can we meet growing energy needs, prepare for extreme weather, and modernize the grid? Join NW Energy Coalition's fall conference for expert insights, collaboration, and solutions. 📅 Wednesday, Dec 3rd 📍 Portland, OR 🎟 Register!
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Controversial new CBS News chief Bari Weiss's publication has consistently rebranded tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent... via Emily Atkin/Heated
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Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
https://heated.world/p/bari-weiss-vs-climate-change?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=26n12&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Results of the Georgia Public Service Commission elections are great not just as an anti-Trump bellwether, but also for electric bills and renewables in Georgia. (Also, I'm guessing all the big entertainment companies that film in GA are paying attention?)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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In an Upset, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/georgia-election-utility-board-results.html
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opens the COP30 summit in Brazil: “Too many corporations are making record profits from climate devastation, with billions spent on lobbying, deceiving the public and obstructing progress.”
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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/06/missing-15c-climate-target-is-a-moral-failure-guterres-tells-cop30-summit
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Brad Reed
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If you're talking about affordability, you're talking about clean energy. Period. Bills go DOWN when you quit coal. 📉 Fossil fuels cost us in more ways than just dollars, but clean energy is beating coal, methane, and oil at the economics game too.
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An Oregon utility’s break with coal brings customer savings • Oregon Capital Chronicle
While the Trump administration pursues a coal revival, a utility in Oregon is saving money by giving up on the fossil fuel.
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/04/an-oregon-utilitys-breakup-with-coal-brings-customer-savings/
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Heatmap News
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Today's Supreme Court hearing on Trump's tariffs brought up some intriguing hypotheticals around a potential future "climate emergency." Here's
@zeitlin.bsky.social
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Neil Gorsuch Is Worried Tariffs Could Create a ‘Climate Emergency’
But this might all be moot thanks to the “major questions doctrine.”
https://heatmap.news/climate/supreme-court-tariff-case
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Robinson Meyer
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“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.”
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Democrats Win 2 Key Energy Races in Georgia
A “seismic change” comes for the state’s Public Service Commission.
https://heatmap.news/politics/alicia-johnson-peter-hubbard-georgia-public-service-commission-results
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Zohran Mamdani ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for mayor — one that barely touched on climate change. Once he's in office, how will the one-time self-described "ecosocialist" govern? Here's
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Zohran Mamdani’s Silent Climate Politics
The self-described “ecosocialist” ran an ultra-disciplined campaign for New York City mayor. Once he’s in office, the climate issue could become unavoidable.
https://heatmap.news/politics/zohran-mamdani-climate
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Trump et al. may be using the pretext of a government shutdown to justify the wholesale destruction of environmental science
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Today is election day! If you haven't dropped off your ballot yet, be sure to get to your nearest dropbox before 7pm. Not sure where yours is? Washington voters can check here-
www.sos.wa.gov/elect...
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David Roberts
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
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Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472
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The people’s power plant: How Puerto Rico turned home batteries into a reliable grid asset
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Our Breaking Barriers Collaborative team is growing, and now taking applications for a Program Coordinator and a Director of Outreach! Learn more about the exciting, innovative work of this team, the role description, and how to apply here —
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Without last-minute interventions, people will go hungry when the federally-funded SNAP food stamps program comes to a halt on Nov. 1. Here's info on food justice, and Northwest-based food banks and community aid organizations.
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JW Mason
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This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized.
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Researchers are helping to more directly trace the impact of fossil-fuel pollution, and how it's making climate disasters, like Hurricane Melissa, stronger and more destructive →
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Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely, Study Suggests - Inside Climate News
Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased the storm’s likelihood.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30102025/climate-change-fueled-hurricane-melissa/
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Bill McKibben
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It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
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Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-gates?r=es3u&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Without last-minute interventions, people will go hungry when the federally-funded SNAP food stamps program comes to a halt on Nov. 1. Here's info on food justice, and Northwest-based food banks and community aid organizations.
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Food security is food justice (and a climate solution) | Climate Solutions
Without last-minute interventions, people will go hungry when the federally-funded SNAP food stamps program comes to a halt on Nov. 1. Here's info on Northwest-based food banks and food justice organizations.
https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/2025-10/food-security-food-justice-and-climate-solution
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Vote for a future that's less spooky, more sustainable 💚🧡 Ballots need to be postmarked by next Tuesday, November 4th - so go vote, then get yourself a treat 🍬🎃
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Another result of the new Trump-appeasing Bari Weiss era of CBS News. Shameful
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Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it, says former EPA chief Gina McCarthy
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Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’
Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/resist-trump-attacks-climate-action
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Ross Macfarlane
20 days ago
Fascinating proposal from
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: cost- effectively meeting the energy needs for data centers by replacing inefficient electric resistance heaters with heat pumps. 1/
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New report: Household upgrades could offset all new projected data center energy demand | Rewiring America
Our report, Homegrown Energy, finds household upgrades are the best, fastest solution for increasing energy demand.
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/research/homegrown-energy-report-ai-data-center-demand?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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📬 Ballots are out! Time to vote! It's not to late-- find answers to all your questions at
vote.wa.gov
Remember, no stamp needed, just drop it in your mailbox or nearest ballot box by Tuesday, Nov 4th!
#ClimateVoter
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Dr. Jeff Masters
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Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central.
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Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record » Yale Climate Connections
At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/catastrophic-hurricane-melissa-hits-jamaica-as-the-strongest-landfalling-atlantic-hurricane-on-record/
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Bill McKibben
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Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye
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Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth's strongest storm of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
A remarkable three of the Atlantic's five hurricanes this year have hit Cat 5.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jamaica-braces-for-cat-5-hurricane-melissa-earths-strongest-storm-of-2025/
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Ross Macfarlane
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Good to see SkyNRG clearing a key regulatory hurdle for its "Project Wigeon" facility in SE Washington. This is a major milestone in the decades-long effort to bring the production of sustainable aviation fuels to scale in the region
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Sustainable aviation fuel project clears key regulatory hurdle
A Dutch company planning a sustainable aviation fuel production facility southeast of the Tri-Cities has cleared an important regulatory hurdle for the project.
https://www.tricitiesbusinessnews.com/articles/skynrg-enviro-milestone
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Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
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Sammy Roth
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The people living near America's first commercial offshore wind farm love it. Cheaper electricity, mroe reliable power:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...
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A Rhode Island Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/climate/block-island-rhode-wind-turbines.html
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Data centers gobbling up real estate and electricity, and A health check-up on the state of our free press. Our latest Climatecast sifts through the headlines and finds the best, so you don't have to-
www.climatesolutions.org/article/2025...
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The media climate is in trouble, too | Climate Solutions
In this week's ClimateCast: our media climate faces multiple attacks; the problem with massive data centers;NW states push back against federal clean energy cuts
https://www.climatesolutions.org/article/2025-10/media-climate-trouble-too
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Andrea Learned | Climate Influence Catalyst Ⓥ 🚲
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Even just with
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#ClimateInfluence
of mayors could do.
#StateOfClimateAction
is grim, so are we ready to support bolder city and state leaders to catalyze big shifts? Local leaders, with our support, have massive opportunity. Thx
@wriclimate.bsky.social
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David Roberts
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On Friday, I'm talking with a transit expert about the authority governors have to shift the final year of Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill funding away from highways, to EVs, transit, & pedestrians. Many governors do not know they have this authority! And this year is a crucial window! Questions?
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States Have More Power Than They Think to Fund Sustainable Transportation
States have the authority to fund trains, buses, bike lanes, and sidewalks with money that would otherwise be used to build more highways.
https://collaborative.evergreenaction.com/memos/states-have-more-power-than-they-think-to-fund-sustainable-transportation
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Ross Macfarlane
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Hollywood group cuts ties with Toyota over concerns around "greenwashing" the automaker's image. Although Toyota was an early adopter of hybrid technology, it has led opposition to climate and pollution standards for vehicles. First edition of
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Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor, after critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial.
https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-pumps-the-brakes-on-toyota?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5fx101&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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David Wallace-Wells
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“A year after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina communities that exhausted their budgets on storm cleanup and recovery are still waiting for FEMA reimbursement.”
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N.C. counties that busted budgets after Helene still waiting for FEMA to pay them back
A year after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina communities that exhausted their budgets on storm cleanup and recovery are still waiting for FEMA reimbursement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/10/21/north-carolina-helene-fema-payments/
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It's
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in Seattle! 🌊 Want to know more about how ⚓ maritime is working to decarbonize? A whole host of industry experts will be discussing that and more - TODAY at 1pm PT- Click to register -->
luma.com/ecoxsbfi
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Sustainable Maritime Fuels & Decarbonization Forum · Luma
Join us for the Sustainable Maritime Fuels Forum, a half-day event during One Ocean Week Seattle. This program features expert panels with industry leaders,…
https://luma.com/ecoxsbfi
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Sammy Roth
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Love this story by
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www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...
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This startup’s electric roasters cut carbon and costs from…
Bellwether produces all-electric, efficient machines that replace gas-burning roasters, giving cafes a sustainable – and affordable – way to roast their…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electrification/bellwether-coffee-roasters-cut-costs-cafe
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New funding from the City of Seattle will support the electrification of short-haul trucking at the Port of Seattle. Diesel fumes from idling trucks are a significant health hazard for local communities as well as contributing to climate change.
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City of Seattle providing $1.5M to company helping to electrify truck fleets at port
The funding will help two companies incorporate 12 new electric drayage trucks — a type of heavy-duty Class 8 truck used to transport freight over short distances.
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/city-of-seattle-providing-1-5m-to-company-helping-to-electrify-truck-fleets-at-port/
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Washington and Oregon are among two dozen states suing the federal administration over the termination of a program making affordable solar energy available in low-income communities
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Nearly two dozen states sue to stop Trump ending $7bn solar grant program
States who received funding under an EPA project aimed to expand solar energy for low-income communities
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/lawsuit-trump-cancel-solar-energy-program
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Fall weather bringing damper conditions and lower temperatures means Washington's wildfire season has peaked, and Dept of Natural Resources turns towards mitigation efforts like prescribed burning and tree thinning.
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WA officials take stock as wildfire season winds down • Washington State Standard
Washington state saw more individual fires than last season, but fewer acres burned, preliminary data shows. Several fires are still burning.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/10/13/wa-officials-take-stock-as-wildfire-season-winds-down/
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The US, Saudi Arabia and Russia are leading efforts to weaken a landmark green shipping deal at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), threatening years of climate progress.
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/16/u...
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US, Saudi-led alliance plunges green shipping deal into doubt
A group of mainly oil-reliant nations wants to make it more difficult for the IMO's Net-Zero Framework to be adopted at London talks
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/16/us-saudi-led-alliance-plunges-green-shipping-deal-into-doubt/
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Community note: EVs with home charging cost significantly less per mile to operate than ICEs. Not sure who is going to save those billions but it won’t be American consumers
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UBC researchers have created a mushroom-powered, waterless toilet!? turning waste into compost using mycelia, the root network of mushrooms. 🍄 Now that is a creative climate solution. 👏
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The Guardian
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world. Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean “sinks” that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/record-leap-in-co2-fuels-fears-of-accelerating-global-heating?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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If fossil gas prices are going down, why are household gas bills going up? Because customers are paying more for infrastructure, construction, utility costs and taxes than they are for the actual fuel.
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Maxine Joselow
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Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding.
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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate/kupnik-alaska-typhoon-trump-epa-flood.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU8.gcbh.8Y6T_1yPy2F6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Amy Westervelt
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Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action.
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"What must be done now to ensure that caring for our common home and listening to the cry of the earth and the poor do not appear as mere passing trends or, worse still, are seen and felt as divisive issues?" — Pope Leo
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Pope Leo calls for 'true ecological conversion' from words to action on environment
The pope spoke Oct. 1 at the start of a conference marking the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis' landmark document that encapsulated church teaching on the environment.
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-leo-calls-true-ecological-conversion-words-action-environment
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This FRI in PDX: The AfroFuturism Oasis: Empowering Our Futures Spotlighting a new innovative, healing-centered community space in North Portland that retrofits a retiring MAX train into a sustainable hub for rest, wellness, co-working, and resilience.
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The AfroFuturism Oasis: Empowering Our Futures
Join the ZERO Coalition’s JEDI Committee and AfroVillage PDX for a powerful and inspiring afternoon during Sustainable Building Week 2025.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-afrofuturism-oasis-empowering-our-futures-tickets-1429357218919
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