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Climate info & tools for immersive learning. Everywhere: @CityAtlas #PlayEnergetic Posts: R Reiss https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html https://newyork.thecityatlas.org/energetic/energetic-in-new-york/

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 20d

Glad to see dozens of students at Vassar decarbonizing NYC this morning in @jeffsseidman.bsky.social's class.
We can do this for any city, and now we have 1000 sets to distribute for New York. Ideas welcome!
#PlayEnergetic

A roomful of college students playing a cooperative board game, Energetic, in which an activist, a politician, an entrepreneur, and an engineer team up to build a zero carbon energy supply for NYC by 2040.

In this updated version, you begin in 2026, and you can't build offshore wind till 2029, and then only if you win the 2028 election.

You do, however, start the game with 1 GW already complete, thanks to the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line. So you only have to build 15 more GW to power NYC's heat pumps in 2040.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 56m

SCOOP: The only offshore wind farm backed by Republican lawmakers narrows in on a new, definitive state date: March 2026.

Trump promised “no new windmills” on his watch.

But, in just 6 months, America’s largest offshore wind farm will plug into the grid. 🔌

#energysky #greensky

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in six months

Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.

www.canarymedia.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 2h

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 2h

If you read one thing today it should be this. Then send it to your congressmember, senators, and to the White House.

Opinion | Why You Should Blame Trump When Your Energy Bills Go Up

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 16h

An even better, though maybe more uncomfortable question, for those of us with R1 university degrees. How do we feel about this? As a cohort, it's our creation, is it not? Lachlan Murdoch, Princeton grad; Thiel, Stanford; Vance, Yale. More importantly, the army of corporate support or passivity.

City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 16h

Whether we're in Lachlan Murdoch's country or Peter Thiel's country is a more interesting question than questions about Trump's mental state. Since Murdoch has control of the title bar on Fox News, and control of the screens in the WH, I'd go with him for the moment.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 16h

Alternate take to 'Trump has lost it.'
Trump sounds pretty much same as he did in 2016 (or in 2020, remember 'inject bleach'?), and this garbled speech is effective because it says nothing but permits everything his audience will see on their screens, which is what his appearances are meant to do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 17h

www.skylight.nyc/events/2025-...

Breakdown of retrofits for a building for LL 97

City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 17h

@skylightnyc.bsky.social has a great idea, a Local Law 97 Clean Energy Building Tour. Check out buildings that are decarbonizing - maybe one like yours - and see how they work.
www.skylight.nyc/events/2025-...
10/29; this is capped at 15, & it's 2 Charlton St., Manhattan
@petesikora.bsky.social

Clean Energy Building Tour | Skylight

A digital media publication dedicated to documenting New York’s transition to clean energy

www.skylight.nyc

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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 17h

I don't want to become someone who moves and breathes like all of this is normal. The goal is to feel without coming apart. And to keep going—until we don’t have to live like this anymore. 🙏

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19h

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 20h

'..the wealthiest 10% of Britons generate more emissions from aviation alone than do the poorest 20% from all their activities combined' #flightfree

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

I know nobody wants to hear this. But we cant meet climate goals (aka survive the century) without policies to reduce demand for flights

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 21h

Climate deniers can’t ignore this chart.

@markgongloff.bsky.social explains why it’s not too late to reverse the dangerous trend 🎥

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 22h

Oil & gas profits were much higher than in previous years: $916 billion for listed firms worldwide.

That was a huge windfall for shareholders: U.S. beneficiaries held claims to $301bn—one third of the listed total.

For comparison, total 2022 U.S. low-carbon energy investment was $266 billion. 3/

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 22h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Nathaniel Stinnett @nathanielstinnett.bsky.social · 23h

Dear God.

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Rachel Uranga @racheluranga.bsky.social · 23h

In the fire zones, an immigrant workforce warily carries out cleanup

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In the fire zones, an immigrant workforce warily carries out cleanups

Months after the Eaton fire, a largely immigrant workforce clears homes of ash and debris in Altadena amid health risks and threat of immigration raids.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 23h

“‘We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,’ said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School. ‘We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 1d

This story from @rishpardikar.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social on how Modi's oil & coal cronies are pulling all the strings in India is *wild* not least for the story of the oil baron's son who is going around the world poaching endangered species 🤯 drilled.media/news/modi-ad...

75,000 Endangered and Exotic Animals, SLAPP Suits, and Zero Oversight

How oil and coal billionaires with close ties to the Modi government escape judicial and media scrutiny in India.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

5 yrs ago, I argued that climate change demands an activist academy. So does growing authoritarianism. Our universities need to act collectively, and we academics, as their beating heart, must demand that administrations do this.
My piece: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....
Henry's is a must read. 👇

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

It's a strange analysis on your part (generally glad to have you do data work, btw). 100% of people have to die of something, so unless you sift for 'preventable causes' it will be weighted to the things that get you in the end. The ideal society is everyone dying of old age, w/cd be stroke, etc.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

I should have said, "surrender being 'masters of the universe' & insane AI data centers growing to nation-sized electricity demand in order to make deep fake videos for populist political campaigns" -either way, R1 uni grads are cause of + solution to all problems on Earth.

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

More information that no one on Earth wants to, or plans to, read here:
web.archive.org/web/20200804...
But why not? It's ok. A tough haul for those of us with R1 university degrees who might have to surrender being 'masters of the universe,' but for most life probably gets better

Chapter 11. What We Learned - Our Renewable Future

The authors began this book project with some general understanding of the likely energy transition constraints and opportunities; nevertheless, researching and writing Our Renewable Future has been a...

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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d

Just to give a brighter estimate, here's an ambitious solution for the UK that offers no sacrifice in energy supply:
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
However, long duration storage is kind of an x factor in this one.
This estimate is 1500 TWh; UK FIRES is 580 TWh; Royal Society is 570 TWh.

A table showing the breakdown of renewable energy to supply the UK with the same amount of power it currently has.