Tripp Baird
@trippbaird.bsky.social
Impact investing, decarbonization, systems responsibility, a just economy & a livable biosphere. Co-founder, @BuildersFund; Board @PosiGen @TradMed @UrbanRemedy - Home is where I want to b (But I guess Im already there) #impinv www.thebuildersfund.com
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Tripp Baird
@trippbaird.bsky.social
· Nov 18
This week is a stark reminder that climate change is a symptom, it is not the issue. The issue is our disconnection - from eachother and from the systems of the planet. The fragmentation of the world. The issue is with our perception and our understanding of reality.
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This doesn't get talked about enough.
California has about 40 million people and the 4th largest economy in the world.
The amount of battery capacity added to their grid has doubled in past two years, solar has increased by 43% and methane burning for electricity has gone down by over 40%. 🔌💡
California has about 40 million people and the 4th largest economy in the world.
The amount of battery capacity added to their grid has doubled in past two years, solar has increased by 43% and methane burning for electricity has gone down by over 40%. 🔌💡
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This doesn't get talked about enough.
California has about 40 million people and the 4th largest economy in the world.
The amount of battery capacity added to their grid has doubled in past two years, solar has increased by 43% and methane burning for electricity has gone down by over 40%. 🔌💡
California has about 40 million people and the 4th largest economy in the world.
The amount of battery capacity added to their grid has doubled in past two years, solar has increased by 43% and methane burning for electricity has gone down by over 40%. 🔌💡
It’s not rocket science
Trump guts clean energy → less supply → your bills go up 📈 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opinion/trump-energy-bills-prices.html
Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It’s not rocket science
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Trump & his Cabinet say wind & solar are making electricity more expensive.
Federal data say the opposite.
Our analysis showed states w/ > avg wind/solar generation & > avg acceleration of wind/solar since ‘21 were likelier to have < avg power prices.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Federal data say the opposite.
Our analysis showed states w/ > avg wind/solar generation & > avg acceleration of wind/solar since ‘21 were likelier to have < avg power prices.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices
The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...
www.politico.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trump & his Cabinet say wind & solar are making electricity more expensive.
Federal data say the opposite.
Our analysis showed states w/ > avg wind/solar generation & > avg acceleration of wind/solar since ‘21 were likelier to have < avg power prices.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Federal data say the opposite.
Our analysis showed states w/ > avg wind/solar generation & > avg acceleration of wind/solar since ‘21 were likelier to have < avg power prices.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
The Doughnut has evolved!
It now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century, tracking humanity’s progress across social foundations and planetary boundaries. doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...
It now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century, tracking humanity’s progress across social foundations and planetary boundaries. doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...
The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL
A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download
doughnuteconomics.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Doughnut has evolved!
It now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century, tracking humanity’s progress across social foundations and planetary boundaries. doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...
It now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century, tracking humanity’s progress across social foundations and planetary boundaries. doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...
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JP Morgan counters the currently prevailing narrative by which the electricy demand fromdata centers justified new gas power plants. JP Morgan: solar + wind are the 'strategic solution' as they can be 'deployed faster' than gas. www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
www.jpmorgan.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
JP Morgan counters the currently prevailing narrative by which the electricy demand fromdata centers justified new gas power plants. JP Morgan: solar + wind are the 'strategic solution' as they can be 'deployed faster' than gas. www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
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Headline: Trump lied about ability to halve electricity bills to get elected.
Surging US power costs defy Donald Trump’s pledge to halve bills
Electricity price inflation sparks political debate ahead of elections
www.ft.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Headline: Trump lied about ability to halve electricity bills to get elected.
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this is a super key point. you (largely) don't need any traditional environmentalist eat-your-vegetables austerity or degrowth. we're talking about a future of nearly free, clean energy bsky.app/profile/suew...
Heard Bill McKibben last night. No scolding or rationing mentioned.
Read his latest book. There is no reason to suggest we give up trying to have a future on a planet that will sustain human life the way it does today. It’s the bare minimum.
Read his latest book. There is no reason to suggest we give up trying to have a future on a planet that will sustain human life the way it does today. It’s the bare minimum.
September 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
this is a super key point. you (largely) don't need any traditional environmentalist eat-your-vegetables austerity or degrowth. we're talking about a future of nearly free, clean energy bsky.app/profile/suew...
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Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent
September 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent
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NEW: As America strives to meet skyrocketing energy demands, @SEIA has released a policy blueprint to chart the course for an affordable and reliable energy future.
Read more: seia.org/news/reliabi...
Read more: seia.org/news/reliabi...
Solar and Storage Industry Releases Policy Agenda to Strengthen America’s Electric Grid with Solar and Storage – SEIA
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is leading the transformation to a clean energy economy. Learn more at seia.org
seia.org
September 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: As America strives to meet skyrocketing energy demands, @SEIA has released a policy blueprint to chart the course for an affordable and reliable energy future.
Read more: seia.org/news/reliabi...
Read more: seia.org/news/reliabi...
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Listening to this now, immediately requesting this book from the library. @peterbrannen.bsky.social 's "The Ends of the World" was one of my favorite books, and I still think about it regularly. Excited to dive into this one.
NEW SHIFT KEY
WHY THE STORY OF CO₂ IS THE STORY OF LIFE ITSELF
I talk to the great @peterbrannen.bsky.social about his tremendous new history of carbon dioxide from the Big Bang to now.
Listen at Heatmap: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
Or wherever you get your pods: shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
WHY THE STORY OF CO₂ IS THE STORY OF LIFE ITSELF
I talk to the great @peterbrannen.bsky.social about his tremendous new history of carbon dioxide from the Big Bang to now.
Listen at Heatmap: heatmap.news/podcast/shif...
Or wherever you get your pods: shows.acast.com/65bac3af0334...
What Carbon Dioxide Has to Do With the Meaning of Life | Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins
Rob talks to Peter Brannen, author of the new book The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.
shows.acast.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Listening to this now, immediately requesting this book from the library. @peterbrannen.bsky.social 's "The Ends of the World" was one of my favorite books, and I still think about it regularly. Excited to dive into this one.
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More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
n.pr
September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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After 60 years of trying to electrify populations with fossil fuels, people finally figured out there was a much better way. One with less corruption. Electricity poverty is real and clean energy is now at scale to solve it. This will unleash human flourishing.
For a long time renewable energy uptake in Africa was lacklustre at best.
But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new Ember analysis shows.
But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new Ember analysis shows.
August 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
After 60 years of trying to electrify populations with fossil fuels, people finally figured out there was a much better way. One with less corruption. Electricity poverty is real and clean energy is now at scale to solve it. This will unleash human flourishing.
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This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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President Donald Trump’s attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that’s already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn. 🔌💡
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
Solar executives warn that Trump attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices
Renewable power executives say difficulty getting permits, rising costs due to tariffs and the end of key tax credits are making it tough to plan.
www.cnbc.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
President Donald Trump’s attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that’s already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn. 🔌💡
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
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It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
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Glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
At Europe's melting glaciers, signs of climate peril are everywhere
Europe's glaciers are shrinking faster than anywhere else on Earth, leaving behind unstable landscapes.
www.nbcnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Climate report commissioned by the US Department of Energy contains more than 100 false or misleading statements. Great work by @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
interactive.carbonbrief.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Climate report commissioned by the US Department of Energy contains more than 100 false or misleading statements. Great work by @carbonbrief.org
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...
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1 million people are employed by #BCorps!
A new report from B Lab shows how better jobs lead to better outcomes and how #BCorps around the world are adopting practices to support individual wellbeing, stronger communities & a fairer economy.
blab.infogram.com/1t0dlzmk02o3...
A new report from B Lab shows how better jobs lead to better outcomes and how #BCorps around the world are adopting practices to support individual wellbeing, stronger communities & a fairer economy.
blab.infogram.com/1t0dlzmk02o3...
Insights Series: Good Jobs - Infogram
blab.infogram.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
1 million people are employed by #BCorps!
A new report from B Lab shows how better jobs lead to better outcomes and how #BCorps around the world are adopting practices to support individual wellbeing, stronger communities & a fairer economy.
blab.infogram.com/1t0dlzmk02o3...
A new report from B Lab shows how better jobs lead to better outcomes and how #BCorps around the world are adopting practices to support individual wellbeing, stronger communities & a fairer economy.
blab.infogram.com/1t0dlzmk02o3...
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People say "you shouldn't live in the desert" but remember we have always lived & thrived here. it's home. Instead, remember that what is happening in AZ is a case study for the rest of the country as climate change engulfs us & inactive federal policies fail to protect us. Your community is next.
August 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
People say "you shouldn't live in the desert" but remember we have always lived & thrived here. it's home. Instead, remember that what is happening in AZ is a case study for the rest of the country as climate change engulfs us & inactive federal policies fail to protect us. Your community is next.
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As the clock ticks down on clean energy tax credits, states are stepping in to "accelerate renewable energy projects and get as many underway as possible before the new deadlines take effect," reports @emilypont.bsky.social.
More below, feat. @evergreenaction.bsky.social's Justin Backal Balik.
More below, feat. @evergreenaction.bsky.social's Justin Backal Balik.
States Race to Help Renewables Beat the Tax Credit Clock
Governors, legislators, and regulators are all mustering to help push clean energy past the starting line in time to meet Republicans’ new deadlines.
heatmap.news
August 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As the clock ticks down on clean energy tax credits, states are stepping in to "accelerate renewable energy projects and get as many underway as possible before the new deadlines take effect," reports @emilypont.bsky.social.
More below, feat. @evergreenaction.bsky.social's Justin Backal Balik.
More below, feat. @evergreenaction.bsky.social's Justin Backal Balik.