Joel McKinnon at New Worlds
@seldoncrisis.bsky.social
Futurist climate advocate volunteering with Citizens' Climate Lobby, accessibility expert, musician, podcaster, ancient history nerd, bike and general outdoor enthusiast.
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Choose Your World
Jupiter Sheep · Album · 2025 · 14 songs
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32 years after recording, the lone CD from #JupiterSheep, Choose Your World, is released for streaming.
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
I stand with Mark Kelly.
Imagine being Sen. Mark Kelly today.
A former astronaut, who spent 54 days in space for his country, a retired Navy pilot and combat Vet who flew 39 high-risk missions in battle, and whose retirement benefits are now being taken by a drunken frat boy like Pete Hegseth.
I stand with Mark Kelly.
A former astronaut, who spent 54 days in space for his country, a retired Navy pilot and combat Vet who flew 39 high-risk missions in battle, and whose retirement benefits are now being taken by a drunken frat boy like Pete Hegseth.
I stand with Mark Kelly.
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I stand with Mark Kelly.
#SeldonCrisis, a personal journey through Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, is now available on Substack.
Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order
www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-epis...
Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order
www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-epis...
Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order
The complete story of the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, told as narrative, audio drama, commentary and analysis.
www.seldoncrisis.net
January 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
#SeldonCrisis, a personal journey through Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, is now available on Substack.
Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order
www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-epis...
Story Episodes: Read or Listen in Order
www.seldoncrisis.net/p/story-epis...
Ezra Klein is one of the smartest people in politics. He sometimes rubs people the wrong way, but truth has a way of doing that. This piece is about as insightful as it gets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iw...
Ezra Klein: This Is How Democrats Win
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ezra Klein is one of the smartest people in politics. He sometimes rubs people the wrong way, but truth has a way of doing that. This piece is about as insightful as it gets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8iw...
Got to see my favorite band perform at The Fillmore in SF Thursday night and they burned the place down. Great show!
#TheWaterboys #TheFillmore #MikeScott
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#TheWaterboys #TheFillmore #MikeScott
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The Waterboys - Glastonbury Song, The Fillmore in SF, 9/25/25
YouTube video by Joel McKinnon
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September 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Got to see my favorite band perform at The Fillmore in SF Thursday night and they burned the place down. Great show!
#TheWaterboys #TheFillmore #MikeScott
youtu.be/APiduixqQiU
#TheWaterboys #TheFillmore #MikeScott
youtu.be/APiduixqQiU
September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Love this!
September 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Love this!
@weatherwest.bsky.social Enjoyed your presentation to #CCL today. Thanks for doing the great work you do!
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@weatherwest.bsky.social Enjoyed your presentation to #CCL today. Thanks for doing the great work you do!
Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines
YouTube video by MinuteEarth
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September 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
#CitizensClimateLobby featured a narrative essay I wrote after my first #CCL lobby day experience, where I compared the climate change battle to the NASA moonshot effort in the '60s.
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/advocac...
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/advocac...
Reflections from Capitol Hill: Climate advocacy and a moonshot mindset
CCL volunteer Joel McKinnon reflects on a moving Lobby Day trip, connecting climate work to the challenge and achievement of space travel.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#CitizensClimateLobby featured a narrative essay I wrote after my first #CCL lobby day experience, where I compared the climate change battle to the NASA moonshot effort in the '60s.
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/advocac...
citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/advocac...
Please join this campaign to lower California electricity rates year round.
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Ask Your Representatives to Make Clean Electrification Affordable in California
Electricity is Too Expensive in California
California’s electric rates are nearly twice the national average, contributing to the state’s affordability crisis. High electric rates discourage the clean...
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August 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Please join this campaign to lower California electricity rates year round.
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actionnetwork.org/letters/make...
Nice to see this little piece of work was appreciated.
In fact, I’m so happy with that Foundation episode that I’m going to listen to one of my favourite single podcast episodes: a dramatisation of this very part of #FoundationAndEmpire!
overcast.fm/+AAs3a0pZ-ZE
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@seldoncrisis.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Nice to see this little piece of work was appreciated.
Reposted by Joel McKinnon at New Worlds
I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):
The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections
An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):
Just got my first ope ed published in the San Mateo Daily Journal. It's inspired by my recent experience lobbying for #CitizensClimateLobby in DC and a trip to the #SmithsonianNationalAirAndSpaceMuseum. #CCL
www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/gues...
www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/gues...
Permitting reform is the climate moonshot we need
In the 1960s, a time of deep political division and social unrest, the United States set an ambitious goal: to land a person on the moon.
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August 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Just got my first ope ed published in the San Mateo Daily Journal. It's inspired by my recent experience lobbying for #CitizensClimateLobby in DC and a trip to the #SmithsonianNationalAirAndSpaceMuseum. #CCL
www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/gues...
www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/gues...
Awaiting Tulsi's big mea culpa 😏
“Clinton Plan” Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Awaiting Tulsi's big mea culpa 😏
Reposted by Joel McKinnon at New Worlds
Preparing for Sun Day 2025: Harnessing Solar Power & People Power, featuring stories of solar solutions. Watch the recording here.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Preparing for Sun Day 2025: Harnessing Solar Power & People Power, featuring stories of solar solutions. Watch the recording here.
thirdact.org/resources/pr...
thirdact.org/resources/pr...
"Oil, coal, and gas are distributed unevenly around the world and just moving the fuel to the sites where it will be used is hugely energy inefficient. About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuel around, and more fuel is moved on trains and trucks."
Great point not stressed enough.
Great point not stressed enough.
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Oil, coal, and gas are distributed unevenly around the world and just moving the fuel to the sites where it will be used is hugely energy inefficient. About 40% of global shipping is just moving fossil fuel around, and more fuel is moved on trains and trucks."
Great point not stressed enough.
Great point not stressed enough.
This is more about the books than the Apple TV show, but I don't think it really contains any spoilers. #Asimov #Foundation
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From the asimov community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the asimov community
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July 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is more about the books than the Apple TV show, but I don't think it really contains any spoilers. #Asimov #Foundation
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Just returned from my first-ever trip to lobby Congress with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a grassroots, nonpartisan group working to build political will for a livable planet. /1
#CCLLobbyDay #ClimateAction #GrassrootsAdvocacy #ClimateHope
#CCLLobbyDay #ClimateAction #GrassrootsAdvocacy #ClimateHope
July 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just returned from my first-ever trip to lobby Congress with Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a grassroots, nonpartisan group working to build political will for a livable planet. /1
#CCLLobbyDay #ClimateAction #GrassrootsAdvocacy #ClimateHope
#CCLLobbyDay #ClimateAction #GrassrootsAdvocacy #ClimateHope
Flying east! Ten San Mateo Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteers are self-funding our trip to DC July 20-22 to lobby Congress for carbon cashback, smarter clean-energy permits & healthy forests. 🌎✈️ #ClimateAction
July 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Flying east! Ten San Mateo Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteers are self-funding our trip to DC July 20-22 to lobby Congress for carbon cashback, smarter clean-energy permits & healthy forests. 🌎✈️ #ClimateAction
@drmgnwife.bsky.social Foundation looms!
July 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
@drmgnwife.bsky.social Foundation looms!
32 years after recording, the lone CD from #JupiterSheep, Choose Your World, is released for streaming.
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
Choose Your World
Jupiter Sheep · Album · 2025 · 14 songs
open.spotify.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
32 years after recording, the lone CD from #JupiterSheep, Choose Your World, is released for streaming.
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/6qfIv6...
Reposted by Joel McKinnon at New Worlds
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
June 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣
This is climate leadership! Wish we had it here in the U.S.
Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027
https://www.europesays.com/2141035/
Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/heat-pumps-solar-panels-new-homes-2027-tlww96fgm by Dependent-Loss-4080
https://www.europesays.com/2141035/
Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/heat-pumps-solar-panels-new-homes-2027-tlww96fgm by Dependent-Loss-4080
Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027 - EUROPE SAYS
Every new home to have solar panels and heat pumps from 2027 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/heat-pumps-solar-panels-new-homes-2027-tlww96fgm
www.europesays.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is climate leadership! Wish we had it here in the U.S.
@jesszafarris.bsky.social Hi Jess - I was expecting you and Rob to talk about why cats have 9 lives among the idioms around nine. Any thoughts on that?
May 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
@jesszafarris.bsky.social Hi Jess - I was expecting you and Rob to talk about why cats have 9 lives among the idioms around nine. Any thoughts on that?
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