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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11h

Monopoly_IRL

The monopoly card that reads “Bank Error in your favor: collect $200”

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 20h

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
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Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 21h

Published paper is here for those that are interested

Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Love this! Great initiative

Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Nice piece out today in the @nytimes.com that includes some coverage of our recent @pnas.org paper on air pollution and pets.

In a Toxic World, Pets Could Be Vital Health Watchdogs

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring! Environmental econ AP position with a focus on biodiversity and related topics.

Come join our great community here at LSE, with lots of people working in the enviro econ space across campus.

Deadline in just under 3 weeks (Oct 26th) and details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring! Environmental econ AP position with a focus on biodiversity and related topics.

Come join our great community here at LSE, with lots of people working in the enviro econ space across campus.

Deadline in just under 3 weeks (Oct 26th) and details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 2d

The growth of Chinese EV and battery exports in the past few years is really something! 🔌💡

Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 2d

NEW DATA | China's exports of clean technologies exceeded 20 billion USD for the first time in August📈

We just published a new @ember-energy.org data tool to track exports of EVs, batteries, gridtech etc. on top of our existing tracking of solar exports.

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Economics for the Environment Consultancy (eftec) @eftec.bsky.social · 6d

Call for papers and posters is open for #envecon2026. It is the UK's only premier applied environmental economics conference gathering research providers and users from academia, public and private sector.

www.uknee.org.uk/envecon/enve...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 4d

I had never really thought about this before. Thanks for sharing.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the video on this - very informative. This new tool looks bleak as hell.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 8d

10 year waiting period in particular is total bullshit. Who is this policy agenda even for? Utterly depressing.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 8d

Nice blog on data centers and electricity prices. Also that is a wild stat that one-third of worldwide hyperscale data centers are in Virginia! 🔌💡

Energy Institute at Haas @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

New Energy Institute Blog Post: What Will Data Centers Do To Your Electric Bill? @severinborenstein.bsky.social

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w...

#electricity #energyefficiency #electricbills #datacenters

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 13d

Killed by the Net Zero Dad www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 10d

My sense is this project needs some government financial backing from country where it would land. The UK balked at the cost and perceived geopolitical risks so I guess the developers are trying Germany. Spain/France must not be keen as I agree the integrated route you mention would be more logical.

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 11d

Why did Apple take a perfectly functional app for managing a music library (iTunes), that could also transfer directly to an iPhone, and break it up into a bunch of inferior apps that are buggy as hell and have less functionality?! Enshitification in action.

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 11d

France’s 2022 nuclear outages showed how vital interconnectors are for grid stability 🇫🇷⚡

This year, as heatwaves strained 🇫🇷’s nuclear fleet, interconnectors helped France replace the missing capacity through imports.

https://loom.ly/G1lrGlM

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 11d

Just heard this paper being covered in @economist.com. A 50+% increase in incidence by midcentury is big. Was notable seeing growing concerns about the spread of mosquito-borne diseases when in France over the summer.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11d

Dengue is a mosquito-borne illness that affects 100 million people annually. The incidence of dengue could be 49–76% higher by midcentury due to climate warming, depending on emissions scenarios. A study finds peak incidence at 28°C (82°F). In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Patients covered by mosquito netting suffer from dengue fever as they receive treatment inside the Mugdha Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 20, 2025.

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Sefi Roth @sjroth.bsky.social · 13d

📢 Come and work with us!

We're looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Economics

Application Deadline: 26 October 2025

More details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/12…

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https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/12…

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 14d

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away.

And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15d

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18d

why economy bad? why not economy good for little while, where good economy go

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 18d

This was excellent

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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 21d

LSE Environment Week 2025 is taking place from 22-25 September 🌎

🌱Working with partners across LSE and the world, this week will encourage economists from all fields to work on environmental issues and connect to policy change

Register online now ➡️ www.lse-environment-week.com/environment-...

a graphic that reads 'lse environment week, how economics can address the climate crisis'

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