James Gilbert
@jimgi800guy.bsky.social
Just a dude who abides, cuz it’s all about the love. Passionate about the environment, and what’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? I’m a dad, USATF Masters T&F runner, retired medical device engineer, outdoor enthusiast, and fly fisherman.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say closing NCAR is dumb policy, when a leading conservative skeptic thinks so … I say call the bluff and buy em Colorado
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Shutting Down NCAR Is Vindictive Governance
Damaging the nation to own the libs is dumb policy
rogerpielkejr.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say closing NCAR is dumb policy, when a leading conservative skeptic thinks so … I say call the bluff and buy em Colorado
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/shutting-d...
rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/shutting-d...
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Time to toughen up and start showing everyone you’re willing to do the hardest thing you’ll ever do: answer hate with love. That means every last one of us. Not just people we agree with. That’s leadership. That’s true love.
September 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Time to toughen up and start showing everyone you’re willing to do the hardest thing you’ll ever do: answer hate with love. That means every last one of us. Not just people we agree with. That’s leadership. That’s true love.
Just dropped today: In case you missed it in-person, here's the link to my talk last week on how we can work together to solve our outage problems with community-oriented Sustainable Energy Utilities and Virtual Power Plants. youtu.be/5rrcIRU5YDM?...
Solving the Power Outage Problem
YouTube video by Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES)
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just dropped today: In case you missed it in-person, here's the link to my talk last week on how we can work together to solve our outage problems with community-oriented Sustainable Energy Utilities and Virtual Power Plants. youtu.be/5rrcIRU5YDM?...
Hey all, Annoyed about those pesky outages we seem to have more of lately? Me, too. Bad news: They are going to keep coming. Good news: We can do something about it right here in our communities starting TODAY. Join me in person TOMORROW at 7 PM at the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, Colorado!
August 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Hey all, Annoyed about those pesky outages we seem to have more of lately? Me, too. Bad news: They are going to keep coming. Good news: We can do something about it right here in our communities starting TODAY. Join me in person TOMORROW at 7 PM at the Jefferson Unitarian Church in Golden, Colorado!
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Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit?
That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.
Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.
Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit?
That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.
Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.
Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
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Explain to me like I’m 10 years old: Why would we use our limited renewable energy for carbon dioxide removal instead of using it to curtail the use of fossil fuels?
Will There Be Enough Power to Remove Carbon From the Sky?
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Explain to me like I’m 10 years old: Why would we use our limited renewable energy for carbon dioxide removal instead of using it to curtail the use of fossil fuels?
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“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
www.noaa.gov
February 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
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Every year, my cycling goal is not to be hit by a driver operating a motor vehicle.
January 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Every year, my cycling goal is not to be hit by a driver operating a motor vehicle.
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The Navajo also, and many other Nation leaders across the country are meeting and discussing these things. Native people have already been detained by ICE who failed to recognize Tribal IDs as official documentation.
January 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The Navajo also, and many other Nation leaders across the country are meeting and discussing these things. Native people have already been detained by ICE who failed to recognize Tribal IDs as official documentation.
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Please welcome @xiyebastida.bsky.social to Bluesky!
Mexican climate justice activist, Indigenous rights advocate, former Fridays For Future organizer, she’s now Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative— an international youth-led organization that supports frontline youth across 27 countries.
Mexican climate justice activist, Indigenous rights advocate, former Fridays For Future organizer, she’s now Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative— an international youth-led organization that supports frontline youth across 27 countries.
Xiye Bastida: If you adults won't save the world, we will | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Please welcome @xiyebastida.bsky.social to Bluesky!
Mexican climate justice activist, Indigenous rights advocate, former Fridays For Future organizer, she’s now Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative— an international youth-led organization that supports frontline youth across 27 countries.
Mexican climate justice activist, Indigenous rights advocate, former Fridays For Future organizer, she’s now Executive Director of the Re-Earth Initiative— an international youth-led organization that supports frontline youth across 27 countries.
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The convicted felon Donald Trump plans to declare a "national energy emergency," but there's no emergency. The US produces more oil and fossil gas than any other country. There is, however, a climate emergency.
January 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The convicted felon Donald Trump plans to declare a "national energy emergency," but there's no emergency. The US produces more oil and fossil gas than any other country. There is, however, a climate emergency.
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Wow, today is becoming a really good day to be an apocalyptic optimist! If you're looking for some glimpses of hope embedded in despair, I got you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=do27...
How to Be an “Apocalyptic Optimist” | Dana R. Fisher | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Wow, today is becoming a really good day to be an apocalyptic optimist! If you're looking for some glimpses of hope embedded in despair, I got you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=do27...
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We cannot address climate change unless we tackle the full range of polluting sectors — including food and agriculture. After all, our food system emits 22-34% of our greenhouse gas emissions!
But how?
Here’s a place to start: get the facts right.
Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But how?
Here’s a place to start: get the facts right.
Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it
Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to b...
Go.ted.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We cannot address climate change unless we tackle the full range of polluting sectors — including food and agriculture. After all, our food system emits 22-34% of our greenhouse gas emissions!
But how?
Here’s a place to start: get the facts right.
Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But how?
Here’s a place to start: get the facts right.
Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
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A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement in a lab.
www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-r...
www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-r...
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement in a lab.
www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-r...
www.quantamagazine.org/scientists-r...
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We can’t look at climate change, biodiversity loss, and human wellbeing in separate silos anymore.
Next — we need to look for effective, evidence-based solutions at the intersection of climate, nature, and people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Next — we need to look for effective, evidence-based solutions at the intersection of climate, nature, and people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
www.bbc.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:25 PM
We can’t look at climate change, biodiversity loss, and human wellbeing in separate silos anymore.
Next — we need to look for effective, evidence-based solutions at the intersection of climate, nature, and people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Next — we need to look for effective, evidence-based solutions at the intersection of climate, nature, and people.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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When it comes to climate change, we often underestimate the importance of food and agriculture — especially when our food system generates ~22-34% of the emissions!
But we have powerful solutions to the problem, where we and the planet can thrive.
Want to learn more?
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But we have powerful solutions to the problem, where we and the planet can thrive.
Want to learn more?
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it
Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to b...
go.ted.com
December 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM
When it comes to climate change, we often underestimate the importance of food and agriculture — especially when our food system generates ~22-34% of the emissions!
But we have powerful solutions to the problem, where we and the planet can thrive.
Want to learn more?
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
But we have powerful solutions to the problem, where we and the planet can thrive.
Want to learn more?
go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.
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300,000 women die from cervical cancer every year.
But this is a cancer we can effectively eliminate with the HPV vaccine.
This is something very few people know about.
Article from my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...
But this is a cancer we can effectively eliminate with the HPV vaccine.
This is something very few people know about.
Article from my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...
November 21, 2024 at 7:01 AM
300,000 women die from cervical cancer every year.
But this is a cancer we can effectively eliminate with the HPV vaccine.
This is something very few people know about.
Article from my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...
But this is a cancer we can effectively eliminate with the HPV vaccine.
This is something very few people know about.
Article from my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...
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Poland is getting fond of solar and wind.
Share of electricity:
2021: 11%
2022: 16%
2023: 25%
2024: TBC
Data: @emberenergy.bsky.social
Chart: ourworldindata.org/explorers/en...
Share of electricity:
2021: 11%
2022: 16%
2023: 25%
2024: TBC
Data: @emberenergy.bsky.social
Chart: ourworldindata.org/explorers/en...
November 26, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Poland is getting fond of solar and wind.
Share of electricity:
2021: 11%
2022: 16%
2023: 25%
2024: TBC
Data: @emberenergy.bsky.social
Chart: ourworldindata.org/explorers/en...
Share of electricity:
2021: 11%
2022: 16%
2023: 25%
2024: TBC
Data: @emberenergy.bsky.social
Chart: ourworldindata.org/explorers/en...
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Overall, the global food system does more damage to the planet than anything else we do, even burning fossil fuels.
drawdown.org/insights/how...
drawdown.org/insights/how...
How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth
Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm an...
drawdown.org
November 28, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Overall, the global food system does more damage to the planet than anything else we do, even burning fossil fuels.
drawdown.org/insights/how...
drawdown.org/insights/how...
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Did you know that every French parking lot is going to be covered with solar panels? That Indonesia said it will close down its coal plants? That Nest is building a giant 'virtual powerplant' in Texas
There are things to be thankful for, even in Nov 2024
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tart-but-s...
There are things to be thankful for, even in Nov 2024
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tart-but-s...
Tart but sweet
Thanksgiving, even this year
billmckibben.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Did you know that every French parking lot is going to be covered with solar panels? That Indonesia said it will close down its coal plants? That Nest is building a giant 'virtual powerplant' in Texas
There are things to be thankful for, even in Nov 2024
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tart-but-s...
There are things to be thankful for, even in Nov 2024
billmckibben.substack.com/p/tart-but-s...
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Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.