“How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero”
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“How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero”
When people across the Tennessee Valley came together to build the Tennessee Valley Authority, they weren’t just building dams and power lines — they were building public opportunity. Help us remind the TVA board that public power belongs to the people. TVA is not for sale! https://loom.ly/GDF1W2w
"So the U.S. war against Iran is making a strong case for nations around the world to seek energy independence. And for those nations that don’t have large fossil fuel reserves, that means wind and solar"
March 10th!
Rebecca Solnit Discusses "The Beginning Comes After the End" With Bill McKibben. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/topic...
This looks good on March 11th!
Part One: Fighting Authoritarianism In Our Third Act. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/part-...
Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich. Read our deep dive: oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...
It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).
The Coastal Plain is a 1.56-million-acre national treasure — sacred ground where the Porcupine caribou herd gives birth, migratory birds flock from all around the globe, and polar bears build their dens.
The Trump administration wants to drill there.
We can't let that happen ➡️ bit.ly/3MyKNYb
“The #Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has prioritized this destructive and dangerous #pipeline over the safety and health of its own communities,” said Will Harlan, Southeast Director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
We seem to be nearing the heart of the story, and a lot will depend on the nerve of the journalists--NPR, the NYT, etc--to stay on this story relentlessly. Will they give it the same kind of coverage they gave Biden's age--i.e., full bore, around the clock, 50 opeds?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
@michaelemann.bsky.social on the increase in intensity in winds & snow fall amounts in nor’easters:
"...we expect to see that increase as long as we continue to warm up the planet by burning fossil fuels and putting carbon pollution into the atmosphere."
www.democracynow.org/2026/2/24/no...
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies
Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling
Join us March 8th in Durham for Communities Over Corporate Profits!
Learn directly from leaders who are advancing renewable energy projects, pushing back on pipelines and data centers, supporting education and labor rights, and creating sustainable food systems and climate resilience!
Simplify Solar Permitting: An Introduction to SolarAPP+; Wed., Feb. 25, 2026, 1 pm ET
Learn why solar roof installations in the U.S. take 3-6 mo. from contract to activation (mostly admin. delays)--in many European countries and Australia, just a few days to weeks--and how to speed up the process.
Yesterday, we joined Sierra Club, Wild Virginia and the Center for Biological Diversity in launching a legal challenge to Virginia regulators' approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline's Southgate extension. #NoMVPSouthgate
https://appvoices.org/2026/02/23/va-southgate-401-challenge/
“This unwanted and unnecessary pipeline means more sediment flowing into a river that has been devastated by a coal ash spill just 11 years ago, where only ten percent of the ash was recovered." Buck Purgason
www.davidsonlocal.com/news/c5eyox9...
Big Oil companies are lobbying Congress for blanket immunity from any laws or lawsuits that could hold them accountable for fueling the crisis. Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
“Joy is an act of resistance.” Or, as Rebecca Solnit wrote in Hope in the Dark, “Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
"financial institute that a company chooses to partner with may be their largest source of indirect emissions"
Soon, the #VA legislature will vote on bills that could determine what kind of impact the data center industry has on our communities, our 🩺 & our electric grid. Tell yr legislators: Put communities and the environment before data centers! #VALeg https://loom.ly/5gbJMXM
“For the Corps to endorse unchecked expansion of methane pipelines while the wounds from repeat flooding due to climate chaos are still raw across our region is unconscionable and immoral.”
@powhr.org's @baristanomics.blog
appvoices.org/2026/02/20/s...
“TVA already found these coal plants to be uneconomical & unreliable, & that hasn’t changed just because the administration wants to keep coal online. For TVA to take this action without public input is contrary to the public power model these new board members all recently affirmed." — Leah McCord
The Beginning Comes After the End Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
I wrote a book! It's trickling out, already in some bookstores. And I'm doing a bunch of events for it (see below). More info on book in alt text.
A crown with a large red X through it. No Kings. On March 28, we are coming together again. Where will you march? Hand holding up a sign that reads We the People Reject Fascism.
No Kings March 28
@thirdactorg.bsky.social, alongside hundreds of organizations, will mobilize millions of Americans to stand together and say:
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Find an event near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
“The EPA’s decision to abandon its responsibility to regulate greenhouse gases ignores the severe dangers our communities face and the economic benefits of responsibly preparing for a changing world.”
@appvoices.orgs Ridge Graham
appvoices.org/2026/02/10/e...
📣 NEW REPORT 📣 Major companies and nonprofits issue millions of co-branded credit cards with the largest U.S. banks. 💳
Those partnerships represent enormous market power - and real leverage to demand climate responsibility from the financial sector. 🏦
Read the report at betteroptionsreport.org
At Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social we're quite old. Not quite as old as honest Abe, but still!
dcmediagroup.us/2026/02/16/t...
Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
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An excellent account from a visitor to Minneapolis of the bravery, creativity, and fortitude of the people shouldering America’s burden of resistance
