Amy Francetic
@amyfrance.bsky.social
Climate VC at Buoyant Ventures, mom, wife, runner, swimmer, loves dogs
Tom Brady is a good football commentator 🏈
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Tom Brady is a good football commentator 🏈
Laurene Powell Jobs: Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving - The Wall Street Journal
October 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Laurene Powell Jobs: Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving - The Wall Street Journal
@nytimes.com breaking it down in plain English!
Kneecapping the cheapest new form of energy during unprecedented load growth is terrible energy policy that everyone will pay for.
This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Kneecapping the cheapest new form of energy during unprecedented load growth is terrible energy policy that everyone will pay for.
This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@nytimes.com breaking it down in plain English!
Kneecapping the cheapest new form of energy during unprecedented load growth is terrible energy policy that everyone will pay for.
This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Kneecapping the cheapest new form of energy during unprecedented load growth is terrible energy policy that everyone will pay for.
This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...
Reposted by Amy Francetic
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
Hope is triumphant but takes real work and mobilization.
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hope is triumphant but takes real work and mobilization.
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
This Is What Autocrats Dread www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
So many bad decisions about energy coming out of DC that will affect everyone - the cost of keeping old fossil fuel plants open
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year
Utility customers will pay the steep cost of the Department of Energy’s sham “emergency” orders to prevent coal-fired power plants from retiring as planned
earthjustice.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So many bad decisions about energy coming out of DC that will affect everyone - the cost of keeping old fossil fuel plants open
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...
So over it!!
Anyone else developing a visceral reaction against short form videos in which people talk to the camera? I know that’s all the internet is anymore but MY GOD I am over it
August 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So over it!!
Reposted by Amy Francetic
Lazard’s latest analysis of the levelized costs of energy concludes that wind and solar are the least expensive new-build power generation for the 10th year in a row.
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/T0cK50WbIGL
Writer: John Cropley
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/T0cK50WbIGL
Writer: John Cropley
June 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Lazard’s latest analysis of the levelized costs of energy concludes that wind and solar are the least expensive new-build power generation for the 10th year in a row.
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/T0cK50WbIGL
Writer: John Cropley
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/T0cK50WbIGL
Writer: John Cropley
Reposted by Amy Francetic
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
We need this kind of work to continue regardless of political administrations. It’s too important. Maybe time for an independently funded foundation to help carry on this work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/c...
Two Scientific Groups Say They’ll Keep Working on U.S. Climate Assessment
The organizations said they planned to publish the assessment even after the Trump administration’s decision to dismiss all authors on the project.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
We need this kind of work to continue regardless of political administrations. It’s too important. Maybe time for an independently funded foundation to help carry on this work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/c...
Reposted by Amy Francetic
Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety.
*Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
*Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’
The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Teaching kids about climate change is not what causes climate anxiety.
*Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
*Not doing anything about climate change* is what causes climate anxiety.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
Tariff flip-flops are bad for business but worse for energy.
Here’s why:
The U.S. grid is facing a demand tsunami:
• Data centers alone = 9% of U.S. electricity by 2030 (BCG)
• EVs, electrified heat, & reindustrialization piling on
Here’s why:
The U.S. grid is facing a demand tsunami:
• Data centers alone = 9% of U.S. electricity by 2030 (BCG)
• EVs, electrified heat, & reindustrialization piling on
April 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Tariff flip-flops are bad for business but worse for energy.
Here’s why:
The U.S. grid is facing a demand tsunami:
• Data centers alone = 9% of U.S. electricity by 2030 (BCG)
• EVs, electrified heat, & reindustrialization piling on
Here’s why:
The U.S. grid is facing a demand tsunami:
• Data centers alone = 9% of U.S. electricity by 2030 (BCG)
• EVs, electrified heat, & reindustrialization piling on
April 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
@volts.wtf @seancasten.bsky.social loved your conversation for @canarymedia.com in Chicago tonight. I’m so proud to have such a smart, articulate, committed Congressman representing IL. 😊
March 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
@volts.wtf @seancasten.bsky.social loved your conversation for @canarymedia.com in Chicago tonight. I’m so proud to have such a smart, articulate, committed Congressman representing IL. 😊
What has made the US energy independent is under threat.
It’s about ideology now, not the economy.
Thx @russellgold.bsky.social
It’s about ideology now, not the economy.
Thx @russellgold.bsky.social
We're breaking energy production records.
Our greenhouse gas emissions are down.
Energy prices are not high.
So why does the Trump administration want to dramatically change course?
The answer lies with Harold Hamm. My (first) NYT essay:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
Our greenhouse gas emissions are down.
Energy prices are not high.
So why does the Trump administration want to dramatically change course?
The answer lies with Harold Hamm. My (first) NYT essay:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
Opinion | The Oil Oligarch Shaping Trump’s Energy Strategy
Harold Hamm, President Trump’s energy mentor, wants to take us back to the 1990s.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What has made the US energy independent is under threat.
It’s about ideology now, not the economy.
Thx @russellgold.bsky.social
It’s about ideology now, not the economy.
Thx @russellgold.bsky.social
Pay a little bit now or A LOT later
🚨NEW: climate inaction will cost more than a third of global GDP this century, but an investment of less than 2% GDP now will reduce harms by 90% - a "massive opportunity for humanity", finds a report from Boston Consulting Group and University of Cambridge.
Climate Inaction Could Cost 1/3 Of Global GDP This Century, BCG Warns
The Big 3 consulting firm finds that most harms come from productivity losses, but also reveals how nations could avoid 90% of climate damage.
www.forbes.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Pay a little bit now or A LOT later
Gen AI is clogging up our inboxes and LinkedIn messages. We’ll need AI to counteract the effects of AI 🤖
Any suggestions for how to filter out in LinkedIn and email?
Any suggestions for how to filter out in LinkedIn and email?
March 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gen AI is clogging up our inboxes and LinkedIn messages. We’ll need AI to counteract the effects of AI 🤖
Any suggestions for how to filter out in LinkedIn and email?
Any suggestions for how to filter out in LinkedIn and email?
Great advice for surviving climate anxiety @ doom from news and social media consumption
Bottom line - take action to reduce anxiety
Connect in real life with people that share your passions
Reduce social media consumption
All obvious but worth repeating
open.spotify.com/episode/4SLe...
Bottom line - take action to reduce anxiety
Connect in real life with people that share your passions
Reduce social media consumption
All obvious but worth repeating
open.spotify.com/episode/4SLe...
How To Survive the News. CNN’s Bill Weir on Moving From Anger and Despair to Optimism and Resiliency.
10% Happier with Dan Harris · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Great advice for surviving climate anxiety @ doom from news and social media consumption
Bottom line - take action to reduce anxiety
Connect in real life with people that share your passions
Reduce social media consumption
All obvious but worth repeating
open.spotify.com/episode/4SLe...
Bottom line - take action to reduce anxiety
Connect in real life with people that share your passions
Reduce social media consumption
All obvious but worth repeating
open.spotify.com/episode/4SLe...
Reposted by Amy Francetic
Excellent truth-telling from @dechant.bsky.social: “Now we have a better idea why Occidental was keen to pick up the pricey [carbon capture] technology: They want to use it to pump more oil.” Same as it ever was…
techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...
The real reason why oil and gas companies are bullish on carbon capture | TechCrunch
Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub compared using CO2 in enhanced oil recovery to fracking, the technology that sent U.S. oil and gas production skyrocketing.
techcrunch.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent truth-telling from @dechant.bsky.social: “Now we have a better idea why Occidental was keen to pick up the pricey [carbon capture] technology: They want to use it to pump more oil.” Same as it ever was…
techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...
techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/t...
Very powerful speech by @govpritzker.illinois.gov today
"The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.”
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-...
"The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.”
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-...
Pritzker remarks on the Holocaust — and on Trump
He used the platform that governors normally use for simply presenting a state budget to continue his rhetorical battle with the Trump administration — and invoked some dark history in doing so.
www.chicagobusiness.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Very powerful speech by @govpritzker.illinois.gov today
"The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.”
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-...
"The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.”
www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/jb-...
If you haven’t listened to this yet, please do. It will give you some hope. Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for your clear, well-researched opinions.
February 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If you haven’t listened to this yet, please do. It will give you some hope. Thank you @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for your clear, well-researched opinions.
I’m blown away by the quality and volume of reporting on climate by @heatmap.news. Thank you @kbrigham.bsky.social for covering this and including Buoyant Ventures.
“Training more efficiently does not necessarily mean that you can run it that much more efficiently,” @nathanielbullard.com tells @kbrigham.bsky.social of DeepSeek AI.
More on what a cheaper AI model actually means for energy demand ⬇️
More on what a cheaper AI model actually means for energy demand ⬇️
What DeepSeek Means for AI Energy Demand
It’s complicated!
heatmap.news
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m blown away by the quality and volume of reporting on climate by @heatmap.news. Thank you @kbrigham.bsky.social for covering this and including Buoyant Ventures.
Terrific truth telling @sammyroth.bsky.social. Thank you 🙏
Whatever happened to truth, justice and the American way?
I've got a column today about Trump's wildfire lies, Musk's white nationalism and the climate crisis. They're all part of the same story. Democracy is in danger.
Yes, @latimes.com let me write this: www.latimes.com/environment/...
I've got a column today about Trump's wildfire lies, Musk's white nationalism and the climate crisis. They're all part of the same story. Democracy is in danger.
Yes, @latimes.com let me write this: www.latimes.com/environment/...
Column: Trump's lies are dragging down democracy, journalism and the climate
Whatever happened to truth, justice and the American way?
www.latimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Terrific truth telling @sammyroth.bsky.social. Thank you 🙏
Now that the media companies are settling lawsuits with Trump, who will tell the truth about the damage that the administration is doing to Americans?
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Now that the media companies are settling lawsuits with Trump, who will tell the truth about the damage that the administration is doing to Americans?