Thursday timelapse of the fog near the Golden Gate Bridge

#ThursdayAfternoon Reading #Conservation : “The Biden administration knows the value of protecting our public lands to combat climate change and ensure our communities have access to the outdoors” nytimes.com/2024/04/11/cli…

BIG NEWS: The CA Supreme Court just accepted our Center for Biological Diversity case challenging CA's regressive rooftop solar rollbacks.

This case has major implications for distributed solar nationwide and its enormous potential to fight the #climateemergency .

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How the essential, dirty steel industry is going green.
#GreenHydrogen will likely play a key role in decarbonizing steel
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A huge chance for Governor Kathy Hochul to #MakePollutersPay and show her climate bona fides by passing New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act! Why make taxpayers clean up after Exxon?

Reconductoring US power lines could quadruple new transmission capacity by 2035: report utilitydive.com/news/reconduct… via Utility Dive

🌎 How can you talk to your kids about climate change? And what are 'climate emotions'?

Join us next Thursday, April 18 as author and journalist Anya Kamenetz and EcoMadre Liz Hurtado-Lazo discuss 'How and Why to Talk to Kids About Climate Change.'
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Widespread, catastrophic flooding - the worst on record - triggered by flash melt of mountain snowpack after temperatures jumped from 32°F to 60°F in just a few days.
This is the #ClimateCrisis

#ThursdayMorning Reading: The #ClimateEmergency and #Migration : 'It has already begun. More Americans are displaced by catastrophic climate-change-driven storms and floods and fires every year.' Amid tales of human resilience, the creeping doubt. More:

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#ClimateEmergency vs. #Insurance : Because we have a real problem in California...

#ThursdayMorning Reading #Energy 'But even if these projections are accurate critics say new fossil gas plants aren’t the answer. They argue that gas plants are polluting, unreliable and likely to become stranded assets in the near future' Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/utili…

#WindWaterSolar in the U.S. interconnection queue is now ~2,400 GW, which is almost twice the capacity as all electricity generation of all types already installed in the U.S.

Queue almost all solar, onshore wind, offshore wind storage

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Trash pickup day 1,721. This was a 60 minute video. #EarthCleanUp

I realized yet another reason why a daily trash pickup is supior today. Never mentioned this in a cleanup video before.

Finally some mid-80s here in SoCal. Most years recently were in the 90s by early February.

Over a TERAWATT of new solar, wind and storage capacity has requested interconnection to the US grid since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, roughly doubling the volume in the queue. That's roughly 2x ALL current US generating capacity.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

― Peace Pilgrim

In the decade following my exit from Farallon Capital, I realized that capitalism created the climate crisis, and it is the only force that can solve it. In this new chapter of my life, I am committed to helping investors see that the climate transition delivers both impact and…

The EU can’t meet its environmental goals without the compliance of farmers, who're demanding policymakers rethink #ClimateAction plans. It's another case of 'let someone ELSE pay for saving the planet' and it's an issue the far right are happy to exploit.
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Comment: The new U.S. federal disclosure rule is an important step towards a water-secure future. Read oped by Kirsten James, senior program director, #water at Ceres. Kirsten James #water risk #esginvestors Liam Dowd Terry Slavin Reuters Events Sustainable Business
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“Bogotá joins Mexico City to its northwest, which could also be on the brink of running out of #water , as the combination of climate change, El Niño, geography and rapid urban development put immense strain on its water resources” #climatecrisis cnn.com/2024/04/11/cli…

#ThursdayMorning #Trade + #ClimateAction : The US can employ it's trade laws to drive climate resilience and decarbonization. By John Kostyak for Forbes

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