Jackie Savitz (@jackiesavitz) — Bluesky Profile

3 months ago

Beer yeast leftovers spun into a promising sustainable yarn 50% stronger than wool Brewery waste can be turned into a cheap, environmentally-friendly textile

Thoughts? www.chemistryworld.com/news/beer-ye...

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3 months ago

California Leaders Blast Trump’s ‘Idiotic’ Plan to Kickstart Offshore Oil Drilling | KQED The Interior Department released its plan to open up federal waters off California’s coast to oil drilling, setting up a direct confrontation with Sacramento on energy and climate change.

Trump's plan to capitalize on the energy of the past while blocking the energy of the future is so 24 years ago. We are in the second quarter of the 21st century, let's start acting like it. www.kqed.org/science/1999...

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3 months ago

“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” Lately I’ve been thinking about murmurations of starlings. The direction of these flights of millions of birds is not determined by any single leader or delegation, but by the responses of each bird....

Well Said: Mackenzie Scott: mackenzie-scott.medium.com/we-are-the-o...

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4 months ago

10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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5 months ago

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists

An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

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6 months ago

Study finds critically endangered sharks being sold as food in U.S. grocery stores A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has uncovered that shark meat sold in U.S. grocery stores, seafood markets, and online vendors often comes from endangered species and ...

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6 months ago

A New, ‘Adorable’ Deep-Sea Fish Swims Into View

A New, ‘Adorable’ Deep-Sea Fish Swims Into View www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

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6 months ago

Electric Vehicle vs. Gas Car Calculator There’s one month left to get a federal subsidy. Our calculator lets you compare models and see whether an E.V. is cheaper in the long run.

Fascinating and fun finally! A calculator for cost and carbon savings for EVs. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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6 months ago

Here's something we can do now to make sure people can vote in elections: www.mobilize.us/ncdems/event...

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6 months ago

New 'forever chemicals' found in killer whale blubber - Oceanographic Previously undocumented in wildlife, a new group of forever chemicals - PFAS - have been found in the blubber of killer whales in the Arctic.

Of course they are. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-for... #regulatetoxicchemicals #dontdefertocorporates

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6 months ago

How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon Irene Gilbert is a 76-year-old retired state employee on a mission, fighting energy projects like large wind farms in Oregon’s rural communities. Renewable energy advocates and lawmakers treat activis...

The onerous process Oregon put in place in the 1970s to stymie nuclear plants is now being used to stall wind and solar projects, and one 76-year-old has filed more challenges to green energy proposals than anyone in the state.

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6 months ago

Ford announces $2 billion investment in Louisville assembly plant aimed at cheap EVs The Detroit automaker plans to produce a midsize, four-door electric pickup at the Louisville Assembly Plant, slated for 2027.

EV investment that drives accessibility to affordable electric cars is a key component to addressing the climate crisis. #climate #crisis #EV #Fossilfuel

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/f...

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7 months ago

The Largest US Offshore Wind Project Is Ready to Go Despite Trump’s Vendetta But his tariff war could add hundreds of millions to the price tag

Offshore wind is moving ahead - it is an important part of the solution to our planet's most pressing, existential crisis. The shift from the energy of the past to the energy of the future. #oceansolution #climatecrisis #offshorewind

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/large...

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7 months ago

100%. More than what they paid for.

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7 months ago

New carbon-removals fund aims to accelerate decarbonization A new revolving fund from climate non-profit Terraset could reduce upfront risk for investors in carbon removals.

Carbon removals fund kicks off to speed decarbonization.
#ClimateCrisis #solutions
trellis.net/article/revo...

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7 months ago

COMIC: Exploring the ocean's wonderous, mysterious depths Did you know that we know less about the sea than we do about space? With this comic, we explore some of what scientists do know about Earth's ocean.

Exploring the ocean's depths: www.npr.org/2025/07/21/g...

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7 months ago

Raging Al Gore is back 🤬 And we need every second of it. | Yoann Berno Raging Al Gore is back 🤬 And we need every second of it. When he gets mad, the truth gets louder. He just ripped into the fossil fuel industry’s latest PR stunt: “Climate realism.” That we can'...

Enough said. Here is all we need to know to attack the #climatecrisis from the man who could/would have turned it around. www.linkedin.com/posts/yberno...

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8 months ago

“The Senator’s wake-up calls about government inaction take on a new urgency in Trump 2.0.”

Link in bio.

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8 months ago

Our national security depends on our ability to harness domestically sourced energy

Our national security depends on our ability to harness domestically sourced energy www.stripes.com/opinion/2025... #cliimate #ocean #blueeconomy

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8 months ago

Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power

Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/c... #ClimateCrisis #Jobs

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8 months ago

Interior Streamlines Offshore Mineral Policies to Strengthen U.S. Supply Chains and Security | U.S. Department of the Interior The Department of the Interior today announced new policy steps to speed up the search and development of critical minerals offshore—resources vital to the nation’s energy, technology and defense need...

Fast-tracking offshore mining is disturbing. We have little experience or precedent, and we need standards and precautions. www.doi.gov/pressrelease... #oceans #mining

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8 months ago

Good Ideas and Bright People Working on Climate Change by Rob Etgen - Talbot Spy I have often heard it said that the Delmarva Peninsula is the third most vulnerable region to sea level rise in America. Whatever our rank, we are certainly

Good Ideas and Bright People Working on Climate Change by Rob Etgen talbotspy.org/good-ideas-a...

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8 months ago

Ours is the first study to demonstrate an historical increase (by a factor of three!) in the occurrence of atmospheric resonance, which is associated with many of the most devastating and deadly persistent summer weather extremes in recent years (e.g. Pacific Northwest Heat Dome of summer '21) 🧵

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9 months ago