Hi, all. This newsletter often feels like a good place for a rant, normally about how corporations and/or politicians are not only failing to adequately address the climate crisis, but actually making it extremely difficult to take action while continuing to exacerbate the crisis without a thought for the world. Most often I have the …
Hi, all. If you haven’t yet heard, the Inflation Reduction Act has passed the House of Representatives and is on its way to President Biden’s desk. We’ve covered it before, but I’ll say it again: It’s a big step forward in the sense that it’s the largest climate package passed ever, but it comes …
Hi, all. The biggest piece of news really dominating the climate world these days is that we are one step closer to passing the biggest piece of climate legislation in US history–also known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)–as the senate passed the bill 51-50 (all D’s in favor + VP Harris, all R’s against). Barring …
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Hi, all. Biden’s announcement about climate change being an emergency generated a lot of hype and speculation last week, mostly within the climate movement but also in the larger media sphere, especially as it played into the larger Biden v. Manchin narrative that’s been going on. In some ways, it was truly exciting to hear …
Image from NASA Hi, all. A couple of hours ago, President Biden unveiled the first image taken by NASA’s Webb telescope, which launched this past December and then reached its orbit location 940,000 miles away about a month later, where it slowly deployed and readied itself to take photos. And today, we got the first sneak-peek of an …
Hi, all. The Fourth of July has landed on a Monday this year, which feels like a prompt to write something about America and the climate for this week’s Movement Monday. The only problem being, of course, that that’s generally not a very cheery task (see recent Supreme Court rulings, extreme weather events, the state …
Hi, all. As Lucy wrote about on Friday, the Supreme Court has been delivering some serious gut punches of late: We saw the overturning of Roe v. Wade coming with the leaked opinion, but that didn’t dampen the blow, and last week’s ruling that struck down a gun control law in New York was also beyond disappointing. To make …
Hi, all. June is proving to be a busy time of year! Pride month, Juneteenth, World Refugee Day, and more all happen to fall around now, and though each event/day is significant in and of itself, they also help remind us how intersectional the issue of climate change is. On that note, I have some …
Hi, all. First off this week, big news from up on high (in our federal government, that is): President Biden used the Defense Production Act to accelerate the production of heat pumps, insulation, and solar panels in the US, which is a huge boon as we need to move towards decarbonizing our buildings as fast …
So I was listening to the radio on my morning commute, and because my true age apparently hovers somewhere around solidly-middle-aged, it was tuned to the local NPR station, which it turned out, was featuring a segment wherein Minnesotans could call in to talk about their experiences with solar power in the state. Now, when …
