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"The revolution in renewable energy is here—but is it too late to make a difference?"

Read my latest Substack post on the ideological clash between climate despair and the inconvenience of hope:

ecologyoftomorrow.substack.com/p/the-simpli...
July 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My new Substack post, “The GOP and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Budget Reconciliation Bill,” is live. Spoiler: I decided that the reason they’re calling it the BBB is because it’s actually short for “Billionaire Buddies will Benefit”.

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The GOP and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Budget Reconciliation Bill
While Moody’s Ratings is downgrading the U.S.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
Was this written about 1908 or 2025?

“He had drawn up a bill, not yet announced, that would take millions of acres out of public land and give them to private interests.”
June 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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mtsw.bsky.social
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
robertferry.bsky.social Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · Jun 22
Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.
Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Batteries are now cheap enough to make 24/7 solar power affordable, unlocking round-the-clock clean energy in the world’s sunniest cities.
electrek.co
June 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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kbmakansi.bsky.social
So this happened! Congrats to my co-authors too! 🎉 🍾
@amirakmakansi.bsky.social
& @foragerart.bsky.social — the best collaborators ever! #booksky 📚
Celebrating over 1 million page reads for The Seeds Trilogy by K. Makansi
June 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
Zen and the Art of Climate Activism: A Buddhist Approach to the Climate Revolution - My latest Substack on The Ecology of Tomorrow is live:

open.substack.com/pub/ecologyo...
Zen and the Art of Climate Activism
A Buddhist Approach to the Climate Revolution
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
“I’m not going to allow my inability to do everything undermine my ability to do something.” - Cory Booker, filibustering for 25+ hours on the floor of the United States Senate.

Words we should all carry with us as we take action and find our place in the movement for collective liberation.
April 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
My newest Substack on THE ECOLOGY OF TOMORROW is live, titled “My Turn to Eco-Futurism” and details how I moved from a philosophy of looking to the past for climate solutions to looking forward. open.substack.com/pub/ecologyo...
My Turn to Eco-Futurism
How I moved from climate traditionalism to climate futurism.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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sunrisemvmt.bsky.social
South Carolina right now...while Republicans chant "drill baby drill".
March 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 10
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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kbmakansi.bsky.social
One of my (amazing, brilliant, talented, brave) daughters has a brand new Substack called The Ecology of Tomorrow. Check it out and please follow @amirakmakansi.bsky.social
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Inbox | Substack
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February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
My latest Substack on THE ECOLOGY OF TOMORROW is now live, entitled The Personal is Political: Dismantling the Illusion of Separation Between Who We Are, What We Do, and What We Believe.

It’s empowering to realize everything you do is an act of resistance.

open.substack.com/pub/ecologyo...
Inbox | Substack
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February 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
I am delighted that my first Substack on THE ECOLOGY OF TOMORROW received almost 50 views. This is where I will explore ideas around the intersection of climate action and policy, the environmental movement, politics, art, and culture.

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February 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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This goes hard
Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the
January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
For those of you looking to boycott or downgrade your support of Amazon—I cancelled my prime membership last year to stop giving them free money, but occasionally order necessities (ex. rare foods I can’t find in my rural area, hearing aid components, uncommon DIY needs). Here’s how I make it work:
January 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
amirakmakansi.bsky.social
I know I’m in my 30s because I had a dream last night about remodeling my bathroom.
January 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM