This will sadly be our last year booking a ski trip in Tahoe over the December holidays. Two of the last three years it has been so warm that little has been open and the snow levels so high it’s been rainy and gross. The climate crisis has ended a decades-old Tahoe skiing tradition in our family!

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

EVs aren’t just cars. They can power your home, slashing emissions—and bills. A first-of-its-kind national study finds that vehicle-to-home charging can turn electric cars into grid-smart assets, reducing both energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/12/evs-...

A second levee broke south of Seattle last night as our relentless parade of atmospheric rivers continues. Thinking of the John Holdren quote that we have three options: mitigation, adaptation or suffering. The third is growing ever more apparent as progress lags on one and two.

A recent study by Dutch colleagues shows that a shutdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries. That is a thus far underappreciated risk of climate change. @swinda.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“We’ve got serious problems, and we need serious people.”

The Trump administration's plan to pump more water in California is ill-conceived and harmful, lawmakers say www.latimes.com/environment/... #CAwater

"Having a plan should be the bare minimum. Because — to paraphrase Bill McKibben — physics doesn’t care about politics. Carbon and methane emissions will keep doing their thing, regardless of how popular it is to campaign on climate." www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-go...

On the urgent need to reframe climate and nature conservation solutions as better for people, communities, and society (and utterly DESTROY the propaganda of greedy polluters that they are bad for our economy)...

Sooner than later, America will again have leadership who gets why this is the way…. (we LOVE our solar/battery system!)

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

@globalecoguy.bsky.social isn't just an expert on hundreds of climate solutions; he’s also an expert at making complex ideas digestible. That's why he was awarded Climate One's 2025 Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication. Hear from Foley live onstage on the latest from Climate One:

Elsewhere in holiday gift ideas… www.qiagen.com/us/knowledge...

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Supreme Court Reform is both necessary and urgent for a multitude of reasons (including for climate & environmental protections). We we need to spread the word and build the public and political support needed to get it done. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democ...

Caffeinated Concrete for Climate: Coffee biochar makes for lower-carbon, stronger concrete New analysis shows that charred coffee grounds make increase concrete's strength by 30% and shrink its carbon footprint by nearly as much www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/12/coff...

"Sport organizations mobilize huge global audiences, and wildlife is at the heart of many of their identities...This emotional connection between fans and the animals that represent their teams could be harnessed to support conservation at scale.” www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/12/wild...

Protect your data. Here's one way to do so.

Very happy to see Trump’s illegal block on wind farm development thrown out by a judge, along with the Orwellian justification given for it—a classic inversion of the truth. apnews.com/article/trum...

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

Got going on this year's native wildflower display along sidewalk in front of our house, coming this spring here in the SF Bay Area. Pulled weeds, cleared thatch to open up soil to sunlight, planted native perennial seedlings, sowed seeds of MANY native wildflower species into 6-packs to plant later

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

A mystical day on a mountain…

I once spoke during the open comment portion of a school board meeting and within a day three people had asked me to run in the next election.

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

King tides bring a glimpse of the future, as sea levels rise. This photo is the highway north out of SF, in Sausalito. Imagine the billions of dollars to be spent on adaptation just in the Bay Area.

Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

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Not good for the long-term help and productivity of our public lands - renewal should be priced according to quality of stewardship to account for costs of restoring land damaged by poor grazing management, which remains far too common stocks.apple.com/AYR37gP4BSzK...

China getting closer to solid state batteries for cars..? interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

Our annual Burn Off the Stuffing (and more) hike - the collie leads…

With all the conversation surrounding the environmental impact of AI, we decided to give our two cents on what it all means for ecologists! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today on Volts: the subset of cleantech known as "electrotech" -- solar, batteries, heat pumps, etc. -- is marching toward inevitable victory, not because it's low-emissions (though it is), but because it's more efficient & cheaper. I discuss the good news with @kingsmillbond.bsky.social.

Iron-enhanced biochar could redefine what soil Is capable of   A review of dozens of studies hints that seeding biochar with iron fragments can mop up contaminants, stabilize nutrients, and lower farm emissions. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/iron...

How to get rid of Citizens United? We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united

Another republican presidency, more lax oversight, and another crash on the way..? Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Some CA legislator should propose a bill to move wildfire mitigation costs out of electricity bills & into the general fund. It's more honest (the whole state is affected), more progressive (electricity bills are *extremely* regressive), & would, at a stroke, lower CA electric bills.

It really feels like it should be a bigger story that the President of Iran said that their capital must be moved because of environmental degradation, including water shortages and land subsidence of 1 foot per year. www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...

From refining minerals to assembling EV packs, China dominates the battery supply chain end‑to‑end. Analysts say the US trails by nearly 10 years, which way is it going? China is obviously winning in the #EV space a well. #Battery www.channelnewsasia.com/world/china-...

First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡

Stunning performance by Robert Plant and Saving Grace in Oakland tonight…

How subtle word choices can undermine a scientific climate message: "Positive framing also tends to focus people’s attention on the possibility that an event may happen, while negative framing focuses attention on the possibility that it may not" www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/how-...

Beaver-engineered habitats are outperforming ours: Two studies find that beaver-engineered wetlands attract twice as many hoverflies, nearly 50% more butterflies, and a richer variety of bats compared to human-made ponds or free-flowing streams. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/beav...

@visaskn.bsky.social: "According to very timely @iea.org analysis of the car industry, the main reason why EVs cost more than ICEV in Europe is mainly driven by the pricing Manufacturing costs are 6k€ higher but price is 14k€ higher = 8K eur difference" #alwaysbecharging nitter.net/visaskn/stat...

None of this helps the industry btw. Conflict with wildlife is .02% of livestock loss. Public lands grazing is 2-3% of US beef & is disastrous for wildlife. The industry is already highly promoted, subsidized and powerful. It’s Trump creating problems then pretending to fix them w his agenda

1/3 of greenhouse gases come from food. Yet climate solutions often ignore food policy. The new Food Systems NDC Scorecard evaluates how national climate plans incorporate food systems as a diagnostic tool & a roadmap for policy improvement. #COP30 earth.org/why-cop30s-s... @earthorg.bsky.social

Wild creatures have their own intrinsic value. Our destruction of landscapes leads to vanishing of wild species, including bees that fertilize crops, trees that store carbon, frogs that deter malaria, and bats 🦇 who are better at insect control than pesticides www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The best thing to have is enough.