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Project Drawdown welcomes Amanda Bielawski, Ph.D., as director of global strategic partnerships Project Drawdown welcomes Amanda Bielawski, Ph.D., as director of global strategic partnerships

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🌍 Meet Dr. Amanda Bielawski — the newest member of the Project Drawdown team! 🎉

She brings deep experience in impact strategy, corporate engagement & sustainability leadership from roles at Pacific Institute, UN Global Compact & more.

Welcome, @amandabielawski.bsky.social ! 💚

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Exciting news!

Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

Interesting.

We are in another giant tech hype cycle with AI — where people are throwing ungodly sums of money at something they don't understand, making promises they cannot keep — without thinking of the fundamentals.

All the ingredients of another crash.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-...

Will data centers crash the economy? This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

Interesting.

We are in another giant tech hype cycle with AI — where people are throwing ungodly sums of money at something they don't understand, making promises they cannot keep — without thinking of the fundamentals.

All the ingredients of another crash.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-...

Mitsubishi unveils line of next-gen HVACs that could dramatically transform your energy bills: 'This…ushers in significant technological advancement' - NewsBreak "Engineered to provide efficiency and reliability." Mitsubishi unveils line of next-gen HVACs that could dramatically transform your energy bills: 'This…u

Solutions on solutions! Heat pumps + climate-friendly refrigerants = Another excellent option for consumers. 👏

"Mitsubishi has announced that it's following global trends and legislation by updating its heat pump lineup with more climate-friendly refrigerants."

www.newsbreak.com/the-cool-dow...

I have no idea. As a joke, I think a bunch of people should get there early in the morning and start walking in the other direction — just to see if they can get the crowds going that way later in the day?

Let’s go back to the 1800s.
Let’s go back to burning rocks.
Let’s go back to more expensive energy.
Let’s go back to choking, dirty air.
Let’s go back to black lung disease.

Brought to you by Trump’s Department of Backward Energy.

YouTube video by Vattenfall A taste of fossil freedom

I love this. “Motherf___ing Wind Farms!”

youtu.be/bunG-GGqzQc?...

YouTube video by AP Archive Trump's AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here's how it may affect energy in the U.S.

Trump's "AI Action Plan" calls for building data centers fast by weakening environmental safeguards and ramping up fossil fuels. 💻

@amandadsmith.bsky.social explains that if left unchecked, consumers could be left footing the bill and bearing the environmental consequences. @apnews.com
#aienergy

Let’s go back to the 1800s.
Let’s go back to burning rocks.
Let’s go back to more expensive energy.
Let’s go back to choking, dirty air.
Let’s go back to black lung disease.

Brought to you by Trump’s Department of Backward Energy.

YouTube video by Vattenfall A taste of fossil freedom

I love this. “Motherf___ing Wind Farms!”

youtu.be/bunG-GGqzQc?...

I don’t know. We have had them before.

I think it can. But it needs more champions.

We love to see it! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A new report finds that:

“Community-based strategies yield meaningful, scalable, and durable results when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and show strong returns on investment (ROI).”

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#actlocal

Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification' “If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”

Okay, I think I get it…

— “We” can’t change the weather — i.e. climate change.

— But “they” can change the weather — conspiracy theories.

🙄

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification' “If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”

Okay, I think I get it…

— “We” can’t change the weather — i.e. climate change.

— But “they” can change the weather — conspiracy theories.

🙄

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The Country Where 76% of Cars Sold Are Electric

Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

Well, the data are clear that wages overall have more than kept up with inflation. Also, many people are also raising their expectations of nicer / larger housing, newer / better cars, and so on.

The things that have actually gotten more expensive, compared to wages, are health care and higher ed.

Infographic: Real Wages Rise Again as Wage Growth Outpaces Inflation This chart shows the year-over-year change in consumer prices, real and nominal hourly earnings in the United States.

That’s simply not true. Wage growth is exceeding inflation.

For housing, most of the increase is because people are building much larger and much fancier houses in far more expensive cities.

www.statista.com/chart/27610/...

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I don’t know too many people who dream about the future anymore.

When I was a kid, we all did. We talked about the year 2000. Sometimes with dread. But mostly with anticipation and excitement.

We saw a bright future — at least as a possibility — out there on the horizon.

I hear you. But the future was still dreamed about. Even then.

But now that the world is much safer and much better, we ironically seem to have given up on the future and are more cynical, divided, and fearful — but have no real objective reason to feel that way.

Amen

Certainly not all the groups you listed. But any organization or group that profits — for attention, power, or money — by creating division and fear. Left or right.

Groups that stoke fear instead of solutions.

That’s been, what, six months? We can turn that around.

The fear of nuclear war was even greater in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I think we overcame that fear, mostly, and still imagined a better future.

Today, the world is much safer and much better — despite what we think — and yet we are more pessimistic and afraid.

I would suggest a different framing.

Yes, we have done some damage to the planet already, but it is still an incredibly vibrant, beautiful, and amazing place.

We can live incredibly rich and full lives here, shared with nature and future generations, and turn things around.

Thanks! I’ll take a look.

Instead of the polarizing nightmares that our politicians, activists, and pundits are pushing on us — which keep them rich and powerful, while we remain afraid and divided — we can dream of something better, together.

I think we need to recapture those dreams of a better future, which can help remember the best of who we are.

These dreams — born of the heroic work of our ancestors who gave everything so we could have the opportunities we have today — can help propel us to build a better world.