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...)
Trump has a look at the @anntelnaes.bsky.social portrait of his Putin-to-Potus autopen, switched out for the Biden autopen portrait he had installed on the White House wall. revkin.substack.com/p/the-trump-... #defendukraine
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump has a look at the @anntelnaes.bsky.social portrait of his Putin-to-Potus autopen, switched out for the Biden autopen portrait he had installed on the White House wall. revkin.substack.com/p/the-trump-... #defendukraine
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Australia was in the BELEM DECLARATION ON THE TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS for about 24 hours, before its Prime Minister declared that you need to extract more gas to help the transition away from fossil fuels.
Enjoy my latest for @thepointau.bsky.social :)
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Enjoy my latest for @thepointau.bsky.social :)
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Australia was in the BELEM DECLARATION ON THE TRANSITION AWAY FROM FOSSIL FUELS for about 24 hours, before its Prime Minister declared that you need to extract more gas to help the transition away from fossil fuels.
Enjoy my latest for @thepointau.bsky.social :)
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Enjoy my latest for @thepointau.bsky.social :)
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Annals of media consolidation: A publicist at a longtime nonprofit publishing house sent me a book galley and noted she's among employees losing jobs 12/31 when it's eaten by a bigger fish. The horrible kicker: I noticed she had to write the press release for the acquisition news. #publishing
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Annals of media consolidation: A publicist at a longtime nonprofit publishing house sent me a book galley and noted she's among employees losing jobs 12/31 when it's eaten by a bigger fish. The horrible kicker: I noticed she had to write the press release for the acquisition news. #publishing
Damn this is a great piece by @jacknicas.bsky.social: Brazil Defied Trump and Won www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
Brazil Defied Trump and Won
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Damn this is a great piece by @jacknicas.bsky.social: Brazil Defied Trump and Won www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w...
#JimmyCliff RIP. Here's "Hurricane Hattie," his first Jamaican hit, which he wrote at age 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWvh...
Hurricane Hattie - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by Emiliano Espinoza Espinosa
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November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#JimmyCliff RIP. Here's "Hurricane Hattie," his first Jamaican hit, which he wrote at age 14. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWvh...
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Nuclear reactor developer X-Energy closed a $700m funding round, bringing its total haul over the past 13 months to $1.4b, as it races to bring online a new reactor design and fulfill offtake agreements with Amazon, Dow etc. www.ft.com/content/59d9... 🔌💡
Amazon’s X-energy gets backing from Jane Street as investors bet big on nuclear
Reactor developer closes fundraising round as markets expect atomic energy will power the AI boom
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nuclear reactor developer X-Energy closed a $700m funding round, bringing its total haul over the past 13 months to $1.4b, as it races to bring online a new reactor design and fulfill offtake agreements with Amazon, Dow etc. www.ft.com/content/59d9... 🔌💡
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If you liked James Balog's movie, Chasing Ice, here is a follow-up (short) film, Chasing Time.
www.pbs.org/pov/films/ch...
www.pbs.org/pov/films/ch...
Chasing Time - POV
Photographer James Balog brings the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project to a close.
www.pbs.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If you liked James Balog's movie, Chasing Ice, here is a follow-up (short) film, Chasing Time.
www.pbs.org/pov/films/ch...
www.pbs.org/pov/films/ch...
Close to done with my new song about the dangers of harvesting the ocean's bounty in Maine. There's a monument in Lubec to those who perished at sea (see below, w/ lyrics). Too many recent names. (I spent time on lobster boats in my 20s in RI and spent 2 years as crew on ocean-crossing sailboats.)
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Close to done with my new song about the dangers of harvesting the ocean's bounty in Maine. There's a monument in Lubec to those who perished at sea (see below, w/ lyrics). Too many recent names. (I spent time on lobster boats in my 20s in RI and spent 2 years as crew on ocean-crossing sailboats.)
Yes indeed. #cop30 finale is another stutterstep in the slog toward a more sustainable energy future.
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yes indeed. #cop30 finale is another stutterstep in the slog toward a more sustainable energy future.
This can’t be stressed enough.
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This can’t be stressed enough.
I may have to reach for the liquor cabinet early. A civil and enthusiastic Trump summation of his Oval Office meeting with Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "The better he does the happier I am." (via CNN)
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I may have to reach for the liquor cabinet early. A civil and enthusiastic Trump summation of his Oval Office meeting with Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "The better he does the happier I am." (via CNN)
Had a lot of fun showing climate-fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson a scene from the climate play Kyoto that reverberates precisely with what Saudi Arabia was doing this week at #cop30 in Brazil. Watch the full #SustainWhat show below. 1/
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Had a lot of fun showing climate-fiction master Kim Stanley Robinson a scene from the climate play Kyoto that reverberates precisely with what Saudi Arabia was doing this week at #cop30 in Brazil. Watch the full #SustainWhat show below. 1/
End open defection.
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
End open defection.
If you're at #cop30, join me LIVE in studio 1230 pm US Eastern 2 pm Belem Time to offer input or ask questions. Discussing isssues and pathways with climate author Kim Stanley Robinson. I can banish anyone instantly so civility is the rule. Show starts at noon. (see below). streamyard.com/gm3576rstc
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If you're at #cop30, join me LIVE in studio 1230 pm US Eastern 2 pm Belem Time to offer input or ask questions. Discussing isssues and pathways with climate author Kim Stanley Robinson. I can banish anyone instantly so civility is the rule. Show starts at noon. (see below). streamyard.com/gm3576rstc
I'm a huge fan of heat pumps and also a bit concerned that, as of our 2021 Samsung units here in Maine, maintenance costs are higher than one would like from "durable goods" like, say, a fridge. We have a fan replacement pending in one indoor unit. Thinking of @energysmartwv.bsky.social. :)
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm a huge fan of heat pumps and also a bit concerned that, as of our 2021 Samsung units here in Maine, maintenance costs are higher than one would like from "durable goods" like, say, a fridge. We have a fan replacement pending in one indoor unit. Thinking of @energysmartwv.bsky.social. :)
Join me LIVE at noon with #clifi author Kim Stanley Robinson, just back from the fiery climate treaty talks in Belem Brazil. Here's fresh security cam footage. Viewing links in post below (also post questions for KSR if you can't join us live). #sustainwhat #cop30 Details ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Join me LIVE at noon with #clifi author Kim Stanley Robinson, just back from the fiery climate treaty talks in Belem Brazil. Here's fresh security cam footage. Viewing links in post below (also post questions for KSR if you can't join us live). #sustainwhat #cop30 Details ⤵️
This Utah law and campus reaction doesn’t seem to square with Gov Cox’s “disagree better” project…
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This Utah law and campus reaction doesn’t seem to square with Gov Cox’s “disagree better” project…
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The CDC has altered its website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing them with inaccurate and misleading information. @corinnepurtill.bsky.social @jennyagold.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism with false and misleading statements
The CDC removed its own research into the safety of vaccines and replaced it with inaccurate statements.
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The CDC has altered its website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing them with inaccurate and misleading information. @corinnepurtill.bsky.social @jennyagold.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...
Yet another reason I’m happy to cover the climate treaty talks from a distance. #cop30 fire
🚨 URGENTE | Pavilhão de negociações da COP30 pega fogo. Local é evacuado. Ainda não se sabe a causa do incêndio.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yet another reason I’m happy to cover the climate treaty talks from a distance. #cop30 fire
Whatever age you are, I hope you'll listen to how the soundtrack composer, master improviser, folk legend, musical pied piper David Amram explained, at 94, that he's still "learning how to live." He's 95 this week.
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Whatever age you are, I hope you'll listen to how the soundtrack composer, master improviser, folk legend, musical pied piper David Amram explained, at 94, that he's still "learning how to live." He's 95 this week.
Farm bankruptcies kill. My song about this. (News via @carlquintanilla.bsky.social )
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Farm bankruptcies kill. My song about this. (News via @carlquintanilla.bsky.social )
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
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[Q]:Do you believe that only Trump can end this war?
Kallas:
No,in order to end this war,you need the Ukrainians&Europeans also to agree to those plans.Of course,Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped killing people.But we have not seen any concessions on the Russian side
Kallas:
No,in order to end this war,you need the Ukrainians&Europeans also to agree to those plans.Of course,Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped killing people.But we have not seen any concessions on the Russian side
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
[Q]:Do you believe that only Trump can end this war?
Kallas:
No,in order to end this war,you need the Ukrainians&Europeans also to agree to those plans.Of course,Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped killing people.But we have not seen any concessions on the Russian side
Kallas:
No,in order to end this war,you need the Ukrainians&Europeans also to agree to those plans.Of course,Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped killing people.But we have not seen any concessions on the Russian side
It took a second, but I’m chuckling out loud.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It took a second, but I’m chuckling out loud.
Yes, it's #worldtoiletday again, so shift the focus from Trump's marble potty to the enduring need for safe defecation options for hundreds of millions of humans. I wrote about this in '08 and revisit now, catching up with India's #poo2loo 'movement' (sorry :-) revkin.substack.com/p/revisiting... 💦
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Yes, it's #worldtoiletday again, so shift the focus from Trump's marble potty to the enduring need for safe defecation options for hundreds of millions of humans. I wrote about this in '08 and revisit now, catching up with India's #poo2loo 'movement' (sorry :-) revkin.substack.com/p/revisiting... 💦