Dave Kirkpatrick

No Kings in Abingdon, VA!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

YouTube video by CBS Evening News Pope Leo denounces "an economy that kills" and "imbalances of wealth"

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To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are… | Dave... To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are holding...

SJF - 25 years of impact investing, needed now more than ever!
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YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix

Thank you Jane Goodall. youtu.be/lfLKHY52ERc?...

Back in 2017, when the US was pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord the first time, SJF Ventures signed on the 'We Are Still In' pledge with many other investors, cities, states and companies... Back in 2017, when the US was pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord the first time, SJF Ventures signed on the 'We Are Still In' pledge with many other investors, cities, states and companies. In 20...

We Are Still In on the Paris Accord, despite current Administration. #energysky www.linkedin.com/posts/davidk...

At Global Climate Summit This Week, U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display

Alas for USA but good for the rest of the world. #energysky www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

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Sunrise over the Outer Banks

Our planet has life thanks to the sun... and the sun overs the promise for us to keep our planet livable for humans for generations.Since SunShares in the early 1980's for passive and thermal solar, solar PV has since scaled to be the most affordable power globally! www.linkedin.com/posts/davidk...

No Kings on Oct 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Get to planning in your community asap. nokings.org

#solar #storage #impinv | Dave Kirkpatrick For our 25th anniversary at SJF Ventures we are making one minute videos on our journey. This one features five solar portfolio companies where SJF led a financing - groSolar (sold to EDF power solu...

For our 25th anniversary, SJF Ventures is producing one minute videos on our journey... here is the first on our solar investments over 20 years in groSolar, Community Energy, Nextracker, Terabase and NewEdge Power. #energysky #solar #storage #impinv www.linkedin.com/posts/davidk...

Opinion | I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back.

I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
An honorable Israeli soldier. Serving his country through dissent from a despotic leader. Sadly, our country may come to needing such honor among our troops as well.

Wildflowers > Lawn

Opinion | I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.

I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security Trump said Putin told him that "it's impossible" to have honest elections with mail-in voting.

Trump getting advised from Putin on how to run elections to assure authoritarian control. Navalny, Reagan & Washington are rolling in their graves. www.axios.com/2025/08/18/t...

Opinion | A Jungle Grows in the Backyard

A Jungle Grows in the Backyard www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Love it @margaretrenkl.bsky.social 72 trees on a half an acre! I counted about 80 but we have ~2 acres. I need to let nature get busy. Though at least most of the space without trees is in wildflower meadows now.

I recommend this book to shake up your sense of America’s history with Asia and China and Vietnam and Korea. #booksky

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

I visited DC a few times recently and found it lovely and peaceful. May our country live up to its beauty. (Peace Monument in front of Capitol.)

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Trump's jobs report retaliation Podcast Episode · Marketplace · 08/01/2025 · 27m

@kairyssdal.bsky.social good for you on telling it like it is on the job report and the crazy firing in the Friday show and congrats on 20 years of excellent journalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The Cost of Carelessness: A Response to Chris Wright’s Climate Dismissal: the latest from Managing Partner @trippbaird.bsky.social on what the climate science really says & why investing in decarbonization is necessary for long-term public interest & U.S. progress.

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This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... | Dave Kirkpatrick This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... they are until they aren't and then you have a GW scale problem vs decentralized solar/wind/batteries/VPPs/D...

Coal, gas, nuclear... NOT base load but big generators that can unexpectedly go offline. #energysky www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour A Brief But Spectacular take on agrivoltaics

Agrivoltaics!! #energysky youtu.be/wh14fnQcgXc?...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Excellent essay by @billmckibben.bsky.social on solar saving the world. #energysky www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

This one’s been on our bulletin board for years, but sadly still relevant. #energysky

Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again

Yes. @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o... #energysky

@stephenplatt.bsky.social great work!!

The Raider by Steven Platt is a fascinating story of a New England boy who becomes a marine in China in the 1930s and is inspired by the early Red Army and later founded the first U.S. special forces - Evan Carlson. #booksky