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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 19h

Hawaii Hits Milestone in Rooftop Solar

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Hawaii Hits Milestone in Rooftop Solar - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Hawaii has the highest rate of rooftop solar power adoption in the US, on a per capita basis. It makes sense, as the power gr...

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathon Porritt: Here comes the sun
#Solar #renewables
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HERE COMES THE SUN! - Jonathon Porritt

Bill McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun captures a moment of true transformation. Jonathon Porritt explores why the Solar+ revolution – solar, wind, storage and efficiency combined – may be the most libera...

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 16h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10h

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10h

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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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 17h

There’s lots of crappy things going on right now.

Don’t forget there is also lots of good stuff going on across the world …. and even beyond! ☄️

Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 22h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Stephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social · 18h

"Humanity cannot coexist with nuclear weapons forever."

- critical takeaway from my @ucs.org colleague Jenn Knox's must-read piece "Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite," the @netflix.com movie premiering in theater's tomorrow:
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Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite

The new film A House of Dynamite depicts what happens when a nuclear missile is launched at the United States. The real-world possibility is just as scary.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

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Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles
One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.
Stephen Prager
Oct 08, 2025

A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.

The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think Secretary Kennedy knows what a placenta is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22h

"I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel."

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flo...

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 15h

"The 2027 Chevy Bolt will go on sale in the first quarter of 2026 and carry a starting price of just $28,995."

Great news!
We have a 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV and love it.
We will never buy another ICE or hybrid car again.

www.caranddriver.com/news/a689884...

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 15h

"...Euro-Med Monitor noted that Gaza and North Gaza governorates have become the epicentre of the Strip’s gravest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 90 per cent of the infrastructure destroyed, residential neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, and almost no effective humanitarian presence on the ground."

As the ceasefire takes effect, Euro-Med Monitor urges humanitarian organisations to relocate operations to Gaza and North Gaza

Gaza and North Gaza governorates have become the epicentre of the Strip’s gravest humanitarian crisis

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 15h

Israel killed 20,000+ kids in 2 years!

UNICEF: Israel's "disproportionate response" in Gaza has killed or maimed at least 61,000 children

UNICEF and Save the Children: On average, a child dies every hour in Gaza — or "a classroom of children" per day

#GazaGenocide
#Apartheid
#FreePalestine

Gaza war has killed an estimated 20,000 kids. CBS News meets many more orphaned, and "always scared."

CBS News meets young Palestinians who've lost their parents to Israel's war with Hamas, who say they're scared, and know "life will never be the same."

www.cbsnews.com

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 15h

Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson:

"Mandela described the harrowing conditions they endured in Israeli custody, calling it 'torture and humiliation.' Their return reignited condemnation of Israel’s blockade and calls for justice."

#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#GazaGenocide

FULL PRESSER: Mandla Mandela Describes “Torture” After Israeli Detention on Gaza Flotilla | AC1G

YouTube video by DRM News

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 18h

"We are one family, with one Father, who makes the sun to rise and sends rain on everyone (cf. Mt 5:45). We inhabit the same planet, and we must care for it together."

That's what I think minus the religious part. 🌞😎

Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 19h

To the consternation of performative faux "Christians", the new Pope renews call for climate action.
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New Pope Joins Call for Climate Action

Blessing Glacial Ice Much to the consternation of performative fossil fueled faux “Christians”, the new American Pope, Leo XIV, is continuing the calls of his predecessor, Pope Francis,…

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 16h

This was really good, especially the ending if you're short on time.
#FreeSpeech

"In my opinion, it's the most minimal, it is the most minimal moral commandment to not be inclusive of child killers. It's a... desecration of the memory of the dead." - Norman Finkelstein
#GazaGenocide

https://youtu.be/zFoHXuhq9mU?si=FW07p2VrpREoxfwy

Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
October 9, 2025

At about 1 hr, 41 min., a reminder that the Biden Administration, not Trump Administration, first gave the green light to crush academic freedom and freedom of speech on college campuses.

https://youtu.be/zFoHXuhq9mU?si=FW07p2VrpREoxfwy

Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
October 9, 2025

At about 1 hr., 45 min., it is not antisemitic to not be inclusive of child and toddler killers.

https://youtu.be/zFoHXuhq9mU?si=FW07p2VrpREoxfwy

Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
October 9, 2025

At about 1 hr., 46 min., the demand to be inclusive comes down to trying to normalize genocide.

https://youtu.be/zFoHXuhq9mU?si=FW07p2VrpREoxfwy

Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
October 9, 2025

At about 1 hr., 47 min., what do we do now? Reclaim our right to free speech and universities' sanctity as places of academic freedom.

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 18h

#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#RenewablesForPeace☮️

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · Nov 10

"If Eisenhower’s speech had been 'Renewables for Peace,' it would have been much more accurate, and if all the global resources that went into nuclear had gone into renewables instead,... we could have been ahead of where we are today by 1990 at the latest."
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Geopolitics Of Nuclear Generation Delayed Renewables By Decades To Fossil Fuel Industry Benefit, Our Detriment - CleanTechnica

It’s deeply unfortunate that nuclear geopolitics massively extended our use of fossil fuels and delayed renewables.

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Susie Sunshine🙏🏼🌎 ☮️ @suzwarto.bsky.social · 18h

We've named this hawk Tony.
We think it's the same one that's been following and leading us on walks, flying from lamppost to lamppost.
I wish the camera on my cellphone was better.
I think he landed in front of us for a photo op. 😍

Blurry photo of a beautiful hawk on a roof with tree branches behind it.

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Reader David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 1d

‘EVs reach record 98.3 pct share of new car sales in Norway, surge across Europe’ thedriven.io/2025/10/09/e...
See also how increasing EV use will reduce overall energy consumption in ‘How small increases in renewables produce big cuts in carbon emissions’ davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-small-...

EVs reach record 98.3 pct share of new car sales in Norway, surge across Europe

The sale of electric vehicles (EVs) took off in September across Europe, led as always by Norway, but also with strong showings in key markets such as the UK, Denmark and Spain.

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Reader David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 1d

The German electricity network operator reports increasing network reliability as renewables increase their share of generation www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/P...
See also ‘Renewables based systems are reducing blackouts in UK and USA!’ davidtoke.substack.com/p/renewables...

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Beyond Nuclear @beyondnuclear.bsky.social · 1d

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The Hill publishes Beyond Nuclear op-ed - Beyond Nuclear

An op-ed authored by Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist, Kevin Kamps, has been published in The Hill.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23h

Re-upping this since lies and conspiracy theories run rampant in the fever swamps of today's "right".
#ScienceUnderSiege

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 9d

Comment from @upenn.edu Provost John Jackson here:
www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Provost John Jackson told The Daily Pennsylvanian that Mann was neither fired nor “driven-out” of the position.

“I think his position has been that it’s more and more difficult for him to do the kind of public intellectual work he wants to do while also being a University administrator at an institution that says we pride ourselves on institutional neutrality,” Jackson added.

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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 23h

Bordering @RSPBMinsmere, Sizewell C is busy destroying the tranquillity & scenic beauty of Suffolk's supposedly protected National Landscape- noise level recorded on apple watch at 90+ decibels. No wonder the UK is one of the world's most nature depleted nations!
#SayNo2SizewellC

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21h

"Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back" | Nice piece about my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, by the great @willbunch.bsky.social for the Philadelphia @inquirer.com: www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back | Will Bunch

Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.

www.inquirer.com

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