Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com
@revkin.bsky.social
40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks
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I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)
Information wants to be free but it costs time and money to generate reliable information…
Via @willoremus.com
Via @willoremus.com
"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
February 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Information wants to be free but it costs time and money to generate reliable information…
Via @willoremus.com
Via @willoremus.com
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Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
This was a fun interview on my climate reporting by Marc at @allouryesterdays.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 12:24 PM
This was a fun interview on my climate reporting by Marc at @allouryesterdays.bsky.social
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Among snow and debris, energy workers restore light and heat meter by meter, not just repairing but stitching up the system's wounds for Ukrainians.
📹🖊️Ministry of Energy
📹🖊️Ministry of Energy
February 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Among snow and debris, energy workers restore light and heat meter by meter, not just repairing but stitching up the system's wounds for Ukrainians.
📹🖊️Ministry of Energy
📹🖊️Ministry of Energy
Tiny chuckles. Our old wood-hauling wheelbarrow is a key component of our hybrid Downeast Maine household energy system (heat pump, wood stove, propane generator backup). 1/
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Tiny chuckles. Our old wood-hauling wheelbarrow is a key component of our hybrid Downeast Maine household energy system (heat pump, wood stove, propane generator backup). 1/
More on these full-position climate fellow positions here.
February 15, 2026 at 3:42 AM
More on these full-position climate fellow positions here.
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How about, instead of funding DHS, Congress funds FEMA as an independent agency and the Coast Guard & TSA as part of the Department of Transportation?
February 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
How about, instead of funding DHS, Congress funds FEMA as an independent agency and the Coast Guard & TSA as part of the Department of Transportation?
This here in Downeast Maine for sure.
Ah, everyone’s favorite first sign of Spring: The Emergence of the Dog Shit from the Melting Snowbanks
February 14, 2026 at 7:21 PM
This here in Downeast Maine for sure.
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
February 11, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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The anti-reg zealots have had quite a run. But whatever happens with endangerment will take years to unfold in the courts. In the meantime, as @gwagner.com stressed on #Sustainwhat today, heaps of actions (including TRUMP actions) align with expanded renewables. revkin.substack.com/p/gernot-wag...
February 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
The anti-reg zealots have had quite a run. But whatever happens with endangerment will take years to unfold in the courts. In the meantime, as @gwagner.com stressed on #Sustainwhat today, heaps of actions (including TRUMP actions) align with expanded renewables. revkin.substack.com/p/gernot-wag...
LIVE at 10:45 a.m. ET join me with @gwagner.com (and maybe others) to explore ramifications of Team Trump's big #endangerment move this week. Viewing links below. Join in studio with questions starting 11 a.m. via QR! 1/
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
LIVE at 10:45 a.m. ET join me with @gwagner.com (and maybe others) to explore ramifications of Team Trump's big #endangerment move this week. Viewing links below. Join in studio with questions starting 11 a.m. via QR! 1/
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Great reporting by @nytimes.com Lisa Friedman and @maxinejoselow.bsky.social on the long campaign by four hardcore climate deniers to take down the Endangerment Finding. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Great reporting by @nytimes.com Lisa Friedman and @maxinejoselow.bsky.social on the long campaign by four hardcore climate deniers to take down the Endangerment Finding. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
Well put.
You can repeal an endangerment finding.
You can’t repeal the endangerment.
You can’t repeal the endangerment.
Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback
The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Well put.
Lots of CO2 will be released in Washington this week as fossil fuel, fans pop champagne corks to celebrate the reversal of endangerment.
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Lots of CO2 will be released in Washington this week as fossil fuel, fans pop champagne corks to celebrate the reversal of endangerment.
This is what great reporting looks like. Bravo, @us.theguardian.com. Here in downeast Maine we feel the tide turning against authoritarian, inhumane Trumpism. But @grahamformaine.bsky.social (or Janet Mills) will still need a lot of national financial support to defeat Susan Collins.
I spoke with workers about their experiences with ICE in Maine as Senator Collins claimed to have halted the operation as she faces re-election this year
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Maine shaken by ICE raids as backlash threatens Republican Senate control
Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
This is what great reporting looks like. Bravo, @us.theguardian.com. Here in downeast Maine we feel the tide turning against authoritarian, inhumane Trumpism. But @grahamformaine.bsky.social (or Janet Mills) will still need a lot of national financial support to defeat Susan Collins.
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
www.volts.wtf
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
MAGA spin on Bad Bunny halftime show. (Via a Facebook group)
February 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
MAGA spin on Bad Bunny halftime show. (Via a Facebook group)
You owe it to yourself to hear and share Tim Grimm's searing, heart-swelling, heartbreaking, song "Broken Truth" - performed January 20, 2026 with Sergio Webb and the house band at The Pigpen Neighborhood Bar in San Antonio, Texas www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rizh... #fastfolk #NoKings #musicmatters
Broken Truth- live in San Antonio
YouTube video by Tim Grimm
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
You owe it to yourself to hear and share Tim Grimm's searing, heart-swelling, heartbreaking, song "Broken Truth" - performed January 20, 2026 with Sergio Webb and the house band at The Pigpen Neighborhood Bar in San Antonio, Texas www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rizh... #fastfolk #NoKings #musicmatters
Wall Street Journal editorial board slamming Florida GOP and Trump over killing immigrant employability.
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Wall Street Journal editorial board slamming Florida GOP and Trump over killing immigrant employability.
“You know where all that symbolism in the Olympic opening ceremony comes from? The torch relay, the flags, the oath, the bell? All introduced in 1936 at the Nazi Olympics, lifted straight from the Nuremberg Rallies.” - @mliebreich.bsky.social ((1992 Olympics skier) 1/2
February 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“You know where all that symbolism in the Olympic opening ceremony comes from? The torch relay, the flags, the oath, the bell? All introduced in 1936 at the Nazi Olympics, lifted straight from the Nuremberg Rallies.” - @mliebreich.bsky.social ((1992 Olympics skier) 1/2
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Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.
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A small thing, was that Koonin’s op-ed was not “a good summary”. It was such a bad summary that a group of us wrote a response and @revkin.bsky.social published it on his NYT blog dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/c...
Certainties, Uncertainties and Choices with Global Warming
We can be certain about climate change uncertainty but still address the risk.
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A small thing, was that Koonin’s op-ed was not “a good summary”. It was such a bad summary that a group of us wrote a response and @revkin.bsky.social published it on his NYT blog dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/c...
His fans are breathless awaiting….
February 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
His fans are breathless awaiting….
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.