Bill McKibben

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Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

It's hard to drone a solar panel The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

Great @billmckibben.bsky.social piece on the natsec benefits of solar. This is exactly what @councilonstrategicrisks.org has found in our Renewable Energy is National Security project -- countries that invest in clean energy are more resilient in today's competitive geopolitical environment.

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Is that because of the close association between pirates and poultry?

Svitlana is a real hero

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

There literally *is* a sentence about it, and a link to the latest article describing the crisis in Zaporizhzhia. It wasn't the main subject of my article, but of course I described it.
Reading before making such charges is recommended! (and thank you for your concern about the trouble!)

thank you. this is how it's done.

Distributed energy networks are far more secure for energy supply than centralised systems

Energy security in the widest sense.

What's not to like and why do the Right seem to like the more controlling centralised systems? Maybe they have shares in them!!

It's hard to drone a solar panel The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis
But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

In New York (world's 10th largest economy), activists coming together to tell the governor that we don't need pipelines--instead, Hochul needs to build out renewables as promised.
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A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech An afternoon with the Pope

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...

A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech An afternoon with the Pope

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-differen...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

good to see you friend!

That makes my day!

Bringing back cavalry charges, that’s what I heard.

Happy birthday and many thanks for a sage review!

Valuable context: Christopher Wright's drink of choice is...fracking fluid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJP...

In a hot world lots of crops want shade and moisture

Fun true fact: the yield of chardonnay grapes goes up 60% when grown in a field with solar panels.
Chardonnay--helping solar, hurting coal. It's working hard, man!

Valuable context: Christopher Wright's drink of choice is...fracking fluid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJP...

Fun true fact: the yield of chardonnay grapes goes up 60% when grown in a field with solar panels.
Chardonnay--helping solar, hurting coal. It's working hard, man!

very true!