ecov8tive.ideas
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Nearly two decades of making the built environment a better environment. Focused on improving the spaces we live/work/play through #energyefficiency, #DERs and stakeholder empowerment. Comments on bsky represent my own opinions.
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Since 2000 water use in Santa Cruz has dropped 45%, while the City added 8,000 people. lookout.co/ask-lookout-... #CAwater @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Since 2000 water use in Santa Cruz has dropped 45%, while the City added 8,000 people. lookout.co/ask-lookout-... #CAwater @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social
No matter how dark it gets, I’m grateful music has been there and will always be there. Music is a promise for more light even if we can’t see it.
Helps to bring me back every time.
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Helps to bring me back every time.
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Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
No matter how dark it gets, I’m grateful music has been there and will always be there. Music is a promise for more light even if we can’t see it.
Helps to bring me back every time.
open.spotify.com/track/3IDc87...
Helps to bring me back every time.
open.spotify.com/track/3IDc87...
Thanks NYAG for fighting the good fight, even though it is a stupid fight brought about by stupid people who would rather have us inhale combustion exhaust than have a new energy future.
We won our lawsuit and stopped the Trump administration from blocking an array of new wind energy projects.
This is a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis and protect one of our best sources of clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
This is a big victory in our fight to keep tackling the climate crisis and protect one of our best sources of clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
December 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Thanks NYAG for fighting the good fight, even though it is a stupid fight brought about by stupid people who would rather have us inhale combustion exhaust than have a new energy future.
“At the time, Biden officials were approving new offshore wind projects at “breakneck speed.” Republican opposition was somewhat scant; GOP lawmakers in deep-red South Carolina had just put forth a pro–offshore wind bill.”
Amazing how quickly this dark US cycle came about.
Amazing how quickly this dark US cycle came about.
In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
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 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“At the time, Biden officials were approving new offshore wind projects at “breakneck speed.” Republican opposition was somewhat scant; GOP lawmakers in deep-red South Carolina had just put forth a pro–offshore wind bill.”
Amazing how quickly this dark US cycle came about.
Amazing how quickly this dark US cycle came about.
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In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
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 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In Feb 2023, I attended a climate skeptics conference in Orlando. I was the only reporter.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
David Stevenson told me there that the offshore wind industry would “crumble” before it reached South Carolina. And that he was leading the opposition.
I followed him for 3 years and wrote this story.
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⚛️⚡️ Over the last 24 hours, enough nuclear energy was available to supply 95% of overall electricity demand in northern Illinois.
⏰ Nuclear plants could meet all electricity demand 24% of the last 24 hours.
⏰ Nuclear plants could meet all electricity demand 24% of the last 24 hours.
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
⚛️⚡️ Over the last 24 hours, enough nuclear energy was available to supply 95% of overall electricity demand in northern Illinois.
⏰ Nuclear plants could meet all electricity demand 24% of the last 24 hours.
⏰ Nuclear plants could meet all electricity demand 24% of the last 24 hours.
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BloombergNEF: "Lithium-ion battery pack prices have dropped 8% since 2024 to a record low of $108 per kilowatt-hour." about.bnef.com/insights/cle... 🔌💡
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
BloombergNEF: "Lithium-ion battery pack prices have dropped 8% since 2024 to a record low of $108 per kilowatt-hour." about.bnef.com/insights/cle... 🔌💡
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The hydrogen bubble has burst.
Nearly 60 major low-carbon H₂ projects have been cancelled or paused — far more capacity than the world has actually built. The reason? Fundamentals still don’t add up:
• Demand isn’t there
• Costs remain high
• Infrastructure is missing
www.ft.com/content/b098...
Nearly 60 major low-carbon H₂ projects have been cancelled or paused — far more capacity than the world has actually built. The reason? Fundamentals still don’t add up:
• Demand isn’t there
• Costs remain high
• Infrastructure is missing
www.ft.com/content/b098...
Hydrogen dreams meet reality as oil and gas groups abandon projects
BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low carbon plants in recent months
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The hydrogen bubble has burst.
Nearly 60 major low-carbon H₂ projects have been cancelled or paused — far more capacity than the world has actually built. The reason? Fundamentals still don’t add up:
• Demand isn’t there
• Costs remain high
• Infrastructure is missing
www.ft.com/content/b098...
Nearly 60 major low-carbon H₂ projects have been cancelled or paused — far more capacity than the world has actually built. The reason? Fundamentals still don’t add up:
• Demand isn’t there
• Costs remain high
• Infrastructure is missing
www.ft.com/content/b098...
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NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
NYC’s congestion pricing cleaned the air. This is also what happened when EZ-Pass was put in place in NJ.
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Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time on.ft.com/3MnJ8nQ
Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time
Data shows 2025 is on track to be the third-warmest on record after November temperature rise of 1.54C
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December 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Three-year temperature average set to exceed 1.5C for first time on.ft.com/3MnJ8nQ
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What does a river know about life that we keep forgetting? www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/03/a...
Aldo Leopold on How to Hear the Song of Life
The point, of course, is to see the whole — what Virginia Woolf called “the thing itself.” Not just to uncover the fragments and discover how each works but to understand their ha…
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December 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
What does a river know about life that we keep forgetting? www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/03/a...
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This is bad for my mental health!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is bad for my mental health!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
The sick joke called the Trump administration took the @EPA Climate Indicators website offline on October 10, 'World Mental Health Day'...
I backed up the 800,000 year greenhouse gas graphs and data in the link below, please share!
Come out to #CircularSunday where we got a Repair Cafe, Clothing & Toy Swap and a lot of great neighbors!
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Come out to #CircularSunday where we got a Repair Cafe, Clothing & Toy Swap and a lot of great neighbors!
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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:
Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:
James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”
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December 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."
Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:
Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:
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1) The editor of Cell Reports Sustainable, a new open-access journal from Cell Press, graciously invited me to do a short Q&A about our new paper, "Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification." Pasting the Q&A in a short 🧵 if anyone's interested.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification
Replacing fossil-fueled machines with electric alternatives can reduce emissions,
but Priyadarshan et al. find that reinforcing United States distribution grids to
accommodate complete home and vehicl...
www.cell.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1) The editor of Cell Reports Sustainable, a new open-access journal from Cell Press, graciously invited me to do a short Q&A about our new paper, "Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification." Pasting the Q&A in a short 🧵 if anyone's interested.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Don’t be afraid of the dark
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You'll Never Walk Alone
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December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don’t be afraid of the dark
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China takes 9 of Top 10 polysilicon manufacturer spots, expanding industry dominance #energysky -- via Solar Power World:
China takes 9 of Top 10 polysilicon manufacturer spots, expanding industry dominance
The latest rankings of the the top polysilicon manufacturers in the world show that nine of the Top 10 are based in China. “The Chinese polysilicon
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December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
China takes 9 of Top 10 polysilicon manufacturer spots, expanding industry dominance #energysky -- via Solar Power World:
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How catastrophe bonds are incentivizing adaptation in North Carolina and more climate news in today's Green Daily
The ‘Game Changing’ Cat Bond Incentivizing Adaptation
Insurers are struggling as climate change-fueled damage intensifies. So are homeowners. Clearly something has to change.
bloom.bg
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How catastrophe bonds are incentivizing adaptation in North Carolina and more climate news in today's Green Daily
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I'm delighted that episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast (with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com) is now available at @drilledmedia.bsky.social!
Tune in at Drilled: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Or check out all of our episodes here: cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
Tune in at Drilled: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Or check out all of our episodes here: cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm delighted that episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast (with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com) is now available at @drilledmedia.bsky.social!
Tune in at Drilled: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Or check out all of our episodes here: cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
Tune in at Drilled: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Or check out all of our episodes here: cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
Colombia, the Netherlands and others will draw up a roadmap for abandoning fossil fuels, after another failed COP.
Saving the future will now take leaders, not consensus poisoned by plutocrats.
A world free from #dinojuicedespots is happening.
theconversation.com/cop30-petros...
Saving the future will now take leaders, not consensus poisoned by plutocrats.
A world free from #dinojuicedespots is happening.
theconversation.com/cop30-petros...
COP30: petrostates block climate deal once again, but some countries are taking their own decisive steps to phase out fossil fuels
Saudi Arabia and Russia often veto COP agreements, but Colombia and The Netherlands are taking matters into their own hands.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Colombia, the Netherlands and others will draw up a roadmap for abandoning fossil fuels, after another failed COP.
Saving the future will now take leaders, not consensus poisoned by plutocrats.
A world free from #dinojuicedespots is happening.
theconversation.com/cop30-petros...
Saving the future will now take leaders, not consensus poisoned by plutocrats.
A world free from #dinojuicedespots is happening.
theconversation.com/cop30-petros...
Handling a deteriorating carbon sink would best be handled by the COP, but that is another institution in danger of fossil-fueled irrelevance.
ground.news/article/stud...
ground.news/article/stud...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Handling a deteriorating carbon sink would best be handled by the COP, but that is another institution in danger of fossil-fueled irrelevance.
ground.news/article/stud...
ground.news/article/stud...
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In this episode of Drawdown's Neighborhood, meet Maggie Baird, who founded Support and Feed with a vision to work at the intersection of the climate crisis, food equity, and food insecurity to address hunger.
📹 Watch on our Youtube at link in bio. https://bit.ly/4qKaML
📹 Watch on our Youtube at link in bio. https://bit.ly/4qKaML
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In this episode of Drawdown's Neighborhood, meet Maggie Baird, who founded Support and Feed with a vision to work at the intersection of the climate crisis, food equity, and food insecurity to address hunger.
📹 Watch on our Youtube at link in bio. https://bit.ly/4qKaML
📹 Watch on our Youtube at link in bio. https://bit.ly/4qKaML
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The global oil and gas industry has relied on sharply growing Chinese demand for the last 30 years. China matters a lot just because of its huge demand.
But China's EV, Battery, Solar & Wind booms matter more, because China exports them.
China is manufacturing to supply the world! #energysky
But China's EV, Battery, Solar & Wind booms matter more, because China exports them.
China is manufacturing to supply the world! #energysky
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The global oil and gas industry has relied on sharply growing Chinese demand for the last 30 years. China matters a lot just because of its huge demand.
But China's EV, Battery, Solar & Wind booms matter more, because China exports them.
China is manufacturing to supply the world! #energysky
But China's EV, Battery, Solar & Wind booms matter more, because China exports them.
China is manufacturing to supply the world! #energysky