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Third Act Maine is Maine elders committed to stopping all new fossil fuel investment and development. Our mission will be accomplished through the joyful practice of nonviolence, uplifting youth and developing community. Visit: thirdact.org/maine
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Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · Nov 8
"Signs of Fascism" today in South Portland courtesy of Third Act Maine's Portland Hub. #resist #nofascism #oldandbold
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Deadline updated! Submit your photos by Friday Dec 19th!
thirdactmaine.bsky.social Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · Nov 22
Open call for photographers of all ages and skill levels. How has climate change affected you?

Click on link to learn more about the project and for the entry form. The submission deadline is December 12th.
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Maine’s Environmental Priorities Coalition seeks photographs to help us illustrate the impacts of climate change on our state, to be used for an advocacy project during the National Make Polluters Pay Week of Action https://makepolluterspay.net/weekofaction/ This year Maine has a chance to pass a groundbreaking piece of climate legislation that would make polluters pay to protect our communities from the climate crisis. It’s called the Climate Superfund Act, and it’s simple: polluters like Exxon and Shell pay for the projects that protect our communities from storms, floods, and rising sea levels. As part of a the Make Polluters Pay Week of Action we are hosting a pop-up art gallery featuring photos that illustrate the impact of the climate crisis on our towns and cities, livelihoods and environment. Mainers from across the state are seeing the damage of the climate crisis first hand and paying the price. Maine legislators can shift the costs to those truly responsible for this damage: Big Oil. This live gallery will be an opportunity to remind Maine legislators of the impacts the climate crisis is having on our state as they go into the 2026 legislative session and vote on the Climate Superfund Act. The gallery showing will take place at the State House on Thursday January 29th from 8am to 12pm. Photographs can address any of the following: Storm Damage / Flooding Mitigation Efforts Health Impacts Natural Habitat and Landscapes Worth Protecting Impacts On Jobs and Our Way of Life Portraits of People Who Have Been Impacted by the Climate Crisis The Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Maine Click in the following link for entry form, the submission deadline is December 12th. https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeSzM2PGA3w.../viewform Photo by Deb Fahy, from the December 2023 flood in Hallowell
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Celebrate snow like never before. It is becoming a rare and precious thing.

Read more in our latest newsletter: thirdactmaine.substack.com/p/amidst-sno...

Image credit: "Remembering Snow" by Maine artist Alison Rector. Reprinted with permission. Available at Courthouse Gallery
A road leads to an island of trees in the distance. Beyond it are purple hills and a yellow strip of sky. Snow is falling. "Remembering Snow" by Maine artist Alison Rector. Reprinted with permission. Available at Courthouse Gallery. We just experienced some bitter cold, but don’t let that fool you. "Along with the Arctic and parts of Europe and China, the northeast US is one of the fastest-warming regions in the world. New England is now heading towards being like the south-eastern US,” says scientist Stephen Young in an article in The Guardian. His research was published in the journal Climate: https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/13/12/246 What are the implications of this? One finding is that “snow cover is decreasing throughout New England, and rapidly in southern New England which has lost over 30–40% of snow cover days between 2000 and 2025.” Celebrate snow like never before. It is becoming a rare and precious thing. This information is from our latest newsletter. Read more here: https://thirdactmaine.substack.com/p/amidst-snow-and-ice
December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Our December newsletter is out!
thirdactmaine.substack.com/p/amidst-sno...
Amidst Snow & ICE
Let's Remember Our Neighbors... and the Power of the Sun
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December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Kevin A. Young's new book, Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social, is an important read for the climate movement. It highlights the ways that economic disruption has historically been an incredibly effective tool to enact change. 🌎🧪🌐

My full review 👇

www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...
Learning from the past: A How-To For Ending Fossil Fuels
A review of Kevin A. Young's Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won
www.briefecology.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The report says deceptive ads.: overstate actions to reduce gg emissions; exaggerates investments in renewable energy; deflects responsibility onto consumers; & falsely promotes nat. gas, carbon capture, hydrogen and algae biofuels as viable solutions. 🌎
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Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds - Inside Climate News
First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"The force that’s slowing down all of this, of course, is the fossil fuel industry, which understands this good news for everybody else as the worst possible news for its future prospects..."

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One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope - Inside Climate News
“Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from hell and how there are no (good) songs written about fracking.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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i mean...

uh...

well...

lordy.

this defies summation. incredible story.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.

In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.

Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.

www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Many Third Actors have served in the military, so when Trump decided to attend the Army-Navy football game in Baltimore last Saturday, we showed up too!

This is no time to sit on the sidelines. It’s time to get in the game! If you’re 60+, join us:

thirdact.org/maryland/join

#NoKings #Democracy
December 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Imagine not having to worry about the cost of keeping the lights on 💡 Solar power is already making that vision a reality.

☀️ Hear how the cleanest, cheapest form of #energy is powering our lives in our award-winning documentary, free to watch on Youtube ⏯️ youtu.be/IDK-3RC5SgY
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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We need renewable energy to take a bite out of the climate crisis but also the authoritarianism crisis

Right now we’re just doing oil piracy

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Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
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December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Our friends at GreenFaith are hosting a virtual gathering of singing, sharing, and storytelling, on the Solstice:
Wednesday, December 17, at 5pm PT / 8pm ET
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Solstice Sing with GreenFaith. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join GreenFaith for an evening of singing, sharing, and community. Many faith traditions celebrate abundance and light in this season as the year closes in on its darkest and longest night. Through so...
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December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Mapping the environmental impact of AI by state that would put the tech industry's climate goals out of reach. Key takeaway: location of a data center matters.
By 2030, how much will data centers contribute to fossil fuel emissions? Scientists mapped it : Short Wave
It’s another news roundup! This time, we cover how, using data analytics – and ironically, some AI – a team at Cornell University has mapped the environmental impact of AI by state. They determined th...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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"Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, solar
is now anytime dispatchable electricity. This is a game-changer for
countries with fast-growing demand and strong solar resources."
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December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"The startup’s first systems are being installed in partnership with philanthropic organizations looking for solar-battery options for low-income communities. That includes the @envdefensefund.bsky.social, which has spent the past few years helping the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico..."
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
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December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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"Pirates of the Anthropocene," Bill McKibben's latest post on The Crucial Years:

"The push for clean energy is the push for peace."
Pirates of the Anthropocene
"I assume we're going to keep the oil."
billmckibben.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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From @fieseler.bsky.social, a wild account of the guy who's spent the best of his years spreading garbage about offshore wind

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
www.canarymedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC 19th!
thirdactmaine.bsky.social Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · Nov 22
Open call for photographers of all ages and skill levels. How has climate change affected you?

Click on link to learn more about the project and for the entry form. The submission deadline is December 12th.
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Maine’s Environmental Priorities Coalition seeks photographs to help us illustrate the impacts of climate change on our state, to be used for an advocacy project during the National Make Polluters Pay Week of Action https://makepolluterspay.net/weekofaction/ This year Maine has a chance to pass a groundbreaking piece of climate legislation that would make polluters pay to protect our communities from the climate crisis. It’s called the Climate Superfund Act, and it’s simple: polluters like Exxon and Shell pay for the projects that protect our communities from storms, floods, and rising sea levels. As part of a the Make Polluters Pay Week of Action we are hosting a pop-up art gallery featuring photos that illustrate the impact of the climate crisis on our towns and cities, livelihoods and environment. Mainers from across the state are seeing the damage of the climate crisis first hand and paying the price. Maine legislators can shift the costs to those truly responsible for this damage: Big Oil. This live gallery will be an opportunity to remind Maine legislators of the impacts the climate crisis is having on our state as they go into the 2026 legislative session and vote on the Climate Superfund Act. The gallery showing will take place at the State House on Thursday January 29th from 8am to 12pm. Photographs can address any of the following: Storm Damage / Flooding Mitigation Efforts Health Impacts Natural Habitat and Landscapes Worth Protecting Impacts On Jobs and Our Way of Life Portraits of People Who Have Been Impacted by the Climate Crisis The Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Maine Click in the following link for entry form, the submission deadline is December 12th. https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeSzM2PGA3w.../viewform Photo by Deb Fahy, from the December 2023 flood in Hallowell
December 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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“This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether, ..."
In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution
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December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Bill McKibben in The New Yorker.
A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change
The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
www.newyorker.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Icymi, here's the webinar recording, Democratizing Solar: How Plug-In Solar Expands Energy Affordability & Resilience.
Putting "power back in people’s hands. Plug-in solar isn’t just a new technology; it’s a new model of energy ownership"
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Our final Coffee Klatch of 2025 is Thursday, so register online and join us for this informal conversation.

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Coffee Klatch
Third Act Faith is filled with people who share at least three things that matter to you: climate change, democracy, and spirituality. Our monthly coffee klatch gives you the opportunity...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Yay for us old people.
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM