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Lexington Alarm! @lexingtonalarm.bsky.social · 8h

We're excited to announce that
@billmckibben.bsky.social will be joining us at Oct. 18 in #Lexington, MA. Hope you do, too!
#nokings #notyranny #resistance #democracy

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 8h

This is six nuclear power plants of solar energy, which would have been cheap, and ready in almost no time--and now we can't have it because of the Trump administration's crusade against clean energy.
You'd think they were vampires, scared of the sun (Hi Stephen Miller)
bsky.app/profile/jael...

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 8h

This energy event is going to be, in a word, lit.
Join us
events.zoom.us/ev/At4Eo8n6b...

Powering Forward: Defending and Delivering Clean Energy in Every Community

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

This is super interesting

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Some of each

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

America is in crisis.

So it's a small relief that the rest of the world is actually getting remarkable stuff done with energy. We just passed a huge milestone globally!

Now back to work on America.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-...

Something extraordinary just happened

But of course there's a but. Or two.

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

Why are prominent Democratic politicians, celebrities, etc hosting a tour of Portland? When he says stupid stuff, we have to actively demonstrate that he is a fool, instead of just assuming everyone knows

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d

America is in crisis.

So it's a small relief that the rest of the world is actually getting remarkable stuff done with energy. We just passed a huge milestone globally!

Now back to work on America.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-...

Something extraordinary just happened

But of course there's a but. Or two.

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bright Saver plug-in solar @brightsaver.bsky.social · 2d

"The sun delivers its energy for free & that's why solar is exciting in a political sense...think about how the geopolitics of Earth would have been over the past 100 yrs if oil had been of trivial value." - @billmckibben.bsky.social 💛☀️ #solar #listen:
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 2d

It's not all positive (this IS 2025), but there's a tremendous amount of good news and useful information in @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest post.

Something extraordinary just happened

But of course there's a but. Or two.

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

game respects game. can't wait!

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 4d

Great @billmckibben.bsky.social piece on the natsec benefits of solar. This is exactly what @councilonstrategicrisks.org has found in our Renewable Energy is National Security project -- countries that invest in clean energy are more resilient in today's competitive geopolitical environment.

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Is that because of the close association between pirates and poultry?

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Svitlana is a real hero

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

There literally *is* a sentence about it, and a link to the latest article describing the crisis in Zaporizhzhia. It wasn't the main subject of my article, but of course I described it.
Reading before making such charges is recommended! (and thank you for your concern about the trouble!)

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

thank you. this is how it's done.

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 6d

Distributed energy networks are far more secure for energy supply than centralised systems

Energy security in the widest sense.

What's not to like and why do the Right seem to like the more controlling centralised systems? Maybe they have shares in them!!

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

billmckibben.substack.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 6d

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis
But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Earth Agora @earthagora.bsky.social · 7d

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast.
Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With @billmckibben.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

www.theguardian.com

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