Bill McKibben

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

Australians and Europeans are installing rooftop solar for a third of the price that Americans pay. Overly complicated local regulations and slow permitting are to blame. But mayors and state legislatures have the power to fix it. By @billmckibben.bsky.social for @motherjones.com

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.

Want some fresh mental oxygen? Read this from @billmckibben.bsky.social " Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I'm with you on the topic of Canada, but running one show you don't like does not seem sufficient reason to shut down the whole system. The CBC is a great national asset for Canadians--please guard it!

I was 6 when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967, so my whole conscious life has been enriched by its work.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.

It’s burgum. And that black and white pic of his ravaged face is disturbing too…
Thanks for good reporting

even Oscar

it could be an early sign, however!

being an utter moron, i'm very grateful for our new cleverer world

If this is the first administration fully immersed in AI, what does it mean that all its decisions are so terminally stupid?

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

This is so dumb it makes my head hurt

just so. learn from our craziness

just so. learn from our craziness

I was 6 when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967, so my whole conscious life has been enriched by its work.
So many thanks to the good and creative people who worked hard to try and educate and enlighten us all.

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

Antonique Smith Named Global Ambassador for Climate Celebration Sun Day Actor and singer Antonique Smith has been announced as the official Ambassador for Sun Day, a new global celebration of clean energy and climate action launching Sept. 21, 2025. Smith, known for he…

The great Antonique Smith is crisscrossing the country for @sundayofaction.bsky.social Sun Day. Her rendition of Here Comes the Sun is def our theme song! www.urbanmag-online.com/antonique-sm...

The world’s fourth-largest economy, California, is generating power using 40% less natural gas than it did two years ago

“If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

Solar Is Liberation Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.

"Our local star already provides us with warmth and light and photosynthesis, and now it would like to give us all the power we need, and then do the same tomorrow, ad infinitum." — @billmckibben.bsky.social 🌞

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.

The New Yorker just did an excellent article on solar power. Unfortunately no one in the Trump administration knows how to read.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Just what I needed to read today. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @billmckibben.bsky.social

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

"It's really beautiful to imagine relying on a power source that you can't hoard."

If you feel yourself slipping into climate doomerism like I have lately, I implore you to read/listen to this convo with @billmckibben.bsky.social. It genuinely helped me see a path forward

Talking with Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social is tonic--she's the embodiment of the fighting journalist, and it's an honor to be her colleague

Yep. It's almost as if they have a different, unspoken goal...

Trump is pulling a con on Americans, but the rest of the world is starting to roll him

or hate

Doug Burgum has to eat every quarter hour all day and all night or his body shuts down

Outside of the U.S., people aren't having to imagine what it must be like to have easy access to solar energy because they already have it. 👉 @billmckibben.bsky.social writes for @motherjones.com, "If we aren’t going to be left behind, we’re going to have to push." (...and take part in Sun Day) ⚡️☀️

Trump is pulling a con on Americans, but the rest of the world is starting to roll him

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.

It's disturbing that the story has hardly been told, so people hardly grasp how profoundly different (as in better) the possibilities are than they were not long ago. And that California, among other places, is realizing those possibilities. @billmckibben.bsky.social did a great piece on that:

How the Grift Works Trump pulls off a nasty con--and maybe he gets rolled too

1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...