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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/nyregion/earth-day-energetic-game.html
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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · Sep 19
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.
cityatlas.bsky.social
The youth speak, but in this piece the author doesn't really get the important part of what no longer exists
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Is Training Us for a World That No Longer Exists | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
At the end of the day, Harvard doesn’t need to end its liberal arts focus — it just needs to modernize the process. Harvard exists to train future leaders. Let’s make sure we equip them with the skill...
www.thecrimson.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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cast-centre.bsky.social
We are proud to see our CAST journal article on: Climate change and wealth: understanding and improving the carbon capability of the wealthiest people in the UK, featured in PLOS Climate's top 10 list for papers which have been in the headlines over recent months. 📰

Read the article 👇
Climate change and wealth: understanding and improving the carbon capability of the wealthiest people in the UK
Author summary Using survey data and in-depth interviews with wealthy individuals, this research finds that despite their high consumption-based emissions, wealthy people have significant potential…
journals.plos.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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steveclimate.bsky.social
Powerful message on national security from Lt Gen Richard Nugee

"We are not yet acting as if peace and tackling climate change are two sides of the same coin.

Cascading risks mean we face instability at home, the potential of an ungovernable state, the very breakdown of the norms of society."
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
cityatlas.bsky.social
Get all the gas turbines built ASAP; AI collapses; now we have a new fleet of gas generators that someone owes money for, so we have to use them. Great planning if so.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h
This is because the real damage is through *excess*, not anything inherent to chips or data centres. And the panic / anxiety could in some places drive more waste, more excess, worse decisions that support fossil infrastructure

There will be less money but none of this was ever real money anyway?
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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gspeng.bsky.social
If you are serving a salad tomorrow (in the US), then it likely came from the Imperial Valley. Great listening while you cook.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Episode 80: The Imperial Valley—winter produce basket and living border
Podcast Episode · Water Talk · 11/26/2025 · 44m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
In the lead publication for that group, the report predicts a zero carbon supply of electricity for the UK that totals about 60% of the UK's current energy demand.
www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/33aaf3...
This report has been downloaded 178,000 times so it's not exactly a secret.
In response, this report starts from today’s technologies: if we really want to reach zero emissions in thirty years time, what does that involve? Most of what we most enjoy - spending time together as families or communities, leisure, sport, creativity - can continue and grow unhindered. We need to switch to using electricity as our only form of energy and if we continue today’s impressive rates of growth in non-emitting generation, we’ll only have to cut our use of energy to 60% of today’s levels. We can achieve this with incremental changes to the way we use energy: we can drive smaller cars and take the train when possible, use efficient electric heat-pumps to keep warm and buy buildings, vehicles and equipment that are better designed and last much longer.
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
cityatlas.bsky.social
"...some form of normalcy." Seems like a low bar, but not when you see the big picture
rszimm.bsky.social rszimm.bsky.social @rszimm.bsky.social · 1d
The fact that more than half the Senate abdicated their responsibility to approve a competent cabinet, all in the name of letting Trump have the advisors he wanted, is the worst scandal ever. They could have stopped Kennedy and Hegseth and demanded some form of normalcy.
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
Which is why politicians haven't invested in climate education, and maybe they can't. Maybe it has to come from outside. But it has to be accurate, or it has no value; politicians will choose to, or be forced to, deflect again if the public understanding is not accurate. (Story of past 30 yrs.)
cityatlas.bsky.social City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d
Of course, giving the public accurate information is also a political crisis.
ukfires.org/impact/publi...
The most downloaded report of 2022 / 2023 from the University of Cambridge, Absolute Zero is an overview of climate mitigation. For twenty years we’ve been trying to solve the problem with new or breakthrough technologies that supply energy and allow industry to keep growing, so we don’t have to change our lifestyles. But although some exciting new technology options are being developed, it will take a long time to deploy them, and they won’t be operating at scale within thirty years.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d
Changing a grid is a political crisis, but crash programs to train up the public would help.
www.resources.org/resources-ra...
The mid-transition to clean energy will see bumps in the road to net zero: “The mid-transition is the period that might be a few decades long, in which the clean energy system and the fossil energy system are both big enough to constrain each other, but not big enough to handle all energy services on their own. In that case, we anticipate that it is likely that both systems rely on each other, but also need to adapt to each other to maintain operations. We expect that this might lead to some maladaptations. It means, basically, that either end of the transition is probably easier than the middle for a variety of reasons.” (3:14) Good policy in the clean energy transition requires transparency: “Being clear with people about how we’re going to anticipate problems and react under each scenario to make sure that people have what they need is going to be incredibly important to making the transition work. Whether we can actually do that is a huge outstanding question, but pretending that this is going to be smooth and automatically better than what we’ve had before is a grave political error.” (18:18) People will need support during the mid-transition: “The mid-transition is likely to be very challenging, and we’re likely to see some bad outcomes associated with people’s personal lives, in terms of price spikes, lack of access to heat, and that type of thing. In general, this should drive us toward being biased toward service provision and ensuring that people have what they need to thrive. Whether we need to think about more creative ways or more structural ways to do that is an important conversation that we need to be having.” (28:55)
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
Which is why politicians haven't invested in climate education, and maybe they can't. Maybe it has to come from outside. But it has to be accurate, or it has no value; politicians will choose to, or be forced to, deflect again if the public understanding is not accurate. (Story of past 30 yrs.)
cityatlas.bsky.social City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d
Of course, giving the public accurate information is also a political crisis.
ukfires.org/impact/publi...
The most downloaded report of 2022 / 2023 from the University of Cambridge, Absolute Zero is an overview of climate mitigation. For twenty years we’ve been trying to solve the problem with new or breakthrough technologies that supply energy and allow industry to keep growing, so we don’t have to change our lifestyles. But although some exciting new technology options are being developed, it will take a long time to deploy them, and they won’t be operating at scale within thirty years.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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VIDEO: 🇹🇭 🇲🇾 Tens of thousands displaced by floods in Thailand and Malaysia

Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia have been displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 people dead, officials said
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
Deep read from Klein, w/the central pt. being Benjamin's 'wreckage of history.' It's a reminder also that WWI cast a long shadow, setting in motion the rest of the 20th c. and giving us not only Surrealism but the dread in "The Lord of the Rings," by Tolkien, who lost most of his friends in the war.
naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 1d
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful.

So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism.

Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning...

Enjoy!
equatormag.bsky.social Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 1d
New @equatormag.bsky.social: @naomiaklein.bsky.social on how the Surrealists transformed the wreckage of history into revolutionary art – and what their example can teach us about the fight against fascism today www.equator.org/articles/sur...
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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robbieandrew.bsky.social
It's not long ago that most of us never even asked the question where the rubber on our tyres went when we realise we have to replace the worn ones. The obvious answer is: directly into nature.
New report shows that car tyres are the largest source of microplastics in Norway's natural environment.
Opptil tre prosent av Oslofjordens lause massar består av bildekk: – Alvorleg
Ein ny rapport konkluderer med alarmerande mengder mikroplast i norsk natur. Blåskjel er hardt ramma.
www.nrk.no
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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In 2025, we hosted 44 classes for 8,940+ learners, ran mapping events in all five boroughs, and supported community partners.

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November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Here’s another one:

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cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3d
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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courtneymilan.com
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
3 - If 'business as usual' is 'conservative,' and 'doing something' is 'left,' but the consequences of not doing enough are mortality, then prioritizing human welfare could slide into 'extreme left,' unless we decide that 'prioritizing human welfare' is normal.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
So then we can ask, "are there other ways to keep people alive?"

I'd put all of this in quotes just to keep it abstract, and try to keep apples with apples. But that's what we're talking about, and that's how geoengineering is already positioned, as a sort of fire extinguisher.
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
If the geoengineering question has immediate value, it would be to get us to go through this exercise from first principles. For one thing, the big pitch for solar radiation management will be 'to keep people alive,' as in what India does in Kim Stanley Robinson's book.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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katrafiy.bsky.social
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
Also true, and another extremely weird thing. Every pathway is an abrupt or at least marked continuous decline, though business pages, government subsidies and drilling policies don't reflect this.
jgkoomey.bsky.social Jonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 3d
Virtually all high CCS scenarios result in significant declines in fossil fuel use. None of them are compatible with fossil fuel industry business plans/forecasts.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
This is why everything feels so weird.
actuaries.org.uk/media/wqeftm...
A graph showing projected mortality at 3°C of over 4 billion deaths.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
cityatlas.bsky.social
How can we apply this to large economies
laminda.bsky.social Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 6d
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A man in a Batman costume and a pregnant woman in a crowded subway car, their faces obscured by pixelation. Text on top of the image reads: "Fig. 1: An example of the experimental setting, with Batman and a woman simulating pregnancy stand in a crowded metro"
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
Griffith's talk & LinkedIn are both important for understanding climate change beyond revealing a need for longer-lasting gadgets.

17 yrs later the important lesson *now* is that 'business as usual' is perpetrated fully eyes-open, especially from the fields of tech & finance, the STEM centers.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM