Third Act Maryland

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Tomorrow, let's all show up for each other--joyfully.
“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection." - Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

We Have Friends Everywhere, including many drivers on Gorman Rd and I-95, Maryland. @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social #NoKings #NoKingsBaltimore #NoKingsDC
@thirdactorg.bsky.social

YouTube video by Evergreen Action Powering Forward: Defending and Delivering Clean Energy in Every Community

Icymi: Powering Forward: Defending and Delivering Clean Energy in Every Community

YouTube video by Stand.earth Investing Your Retirement Plan in a Climate-Safe Future

Icymi: Investing your Retirement Plan in a Climate Safe Future.
Tools, guides, and resources to help you align your retirement investments with your values. See also thirdact.org/our-work/ban...

NASEM webinar, Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk, Thurs., 10/16/25, 10:30 am EDT. Insurance crisis for property owners, risk tolerance, what drives decisions, and community dynamics that can help or hinder risk mitigation, ... To attend: tinyurl.com/2hn4ad4y

Graphic showing the benefits of clean heat for Maryland families, including cost savings, cleaner air, and healthier homes.

New Report: Maryland’s Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standards (ZEHES) could save low-income families $350M a year by 2050--if the state funds equitable implementation. Significant return on investment for all Marylanders.
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#ClimateJustice #CleanEnergy

No Kings Day- October 18th Suggestions for posters

No Kings Day- October 18th

No Kings. No Billionaires. No Pedophiles. No Fascists. No ICE.

Photos from #TeslaTakedown last Saturday, 1300 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. We'll be at #NoKingsDay events next Saturday but return to Rockville Tesla 10/25 at 11 a.m. Photos by Margaret Loomis.

@thirdactorg.bsky.social

Icymi: Recording of the webinar on why PJM is driving up your electricity prices.

Powering Forward: Defending and Delivering Clean Energy in Every Community

This energy event is going to be, in a word, lit.
Join us
events.zoom.us/ev/At4Eo8n6b...

Illustration of a crown with a red X through it. The crown is yellow outlined in black. Below it is large black text reading We have friends everywhere. No kings. October 18. nokings.org. In the background are the names of numerous cities, all run together, separated by bullets, and printed in gray as a wallpaper effect.

We Have Friends Everywhere

Families fight to survive while billionaires get richer. Dictators take, people protect. WE decide, not dictators. Oct 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...

#NoKings #NoKingsBaltimore #NoKingsDC @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Chair Hoover on the Future of Gas in Maryland In February of 2023 the Maryland People’s Counsel initiated a docket at the Public Service Commission to consider the future of gas in Maryland.

Informative overview of the Future of Gas proceedings in MD and how the MD Public Service Commission is carrying out the process (tinyurl.com/yc2jh2pr). #climatechange #climatecrisis #climatejustice @jamiedemarco.bsky.social

YouTube video by Project Drawdown Introducing Drawdown Explorer: The world's most comprehensive platform for climate solutions

Icymi: Informative intro video to Drawdown Explorer, an "all-encompassing platform using the best available data to provide decision-makers with actionable intelligence on the most effective climate solutions."

Something extraordinary just happened But of course there's a but. Or two.

"for the first half of 2025 renewable energy produced more electricity than coal. ... covered all the growth in demand for electricity so far this year, with room to spare." "fossil fuel emissions for producing electricity plateaued—even fell slightly ..."

Electric Grid and Fossil Fuels: Join the webinar I just signed up for an extremely important and interesting webinar about fossil fuels in our regional electric grid on Thursday, October 9 at 6pm ET. Join me!

Not a new sandwich spread, PJM, an organization most people have never heard of, is the largest power grid operator in the U.S. Learn why PJM is driving up your electricity prices. Thursday, Oct. 9, 6 pm ET.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

"Every citizen has a role to play in helping democratic movements succeed. Opposition figures need courage to unify and lead. Judges, business executives, lawyers and journalists need courage to withstand intimidation."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

At TeslaTakedown in Rockville MD, a man holding a sign that is a takeoff of the iconic Uncle Sam I Want You poster, with Join Antifa instead of Join U.S. Army.

Also seen at this morning's #TeslaTakedown Rockville MD.
Our favorite aunt, Tifa, approves this message.

#TeslaTakedown Rockville MD still happening (week 33 +/-)! We're still here, because all you amazing and inspiring people still show up, whether the sun shines or not, as we continue to build and strengthen community. This morning, we tried to give the "shy" drivers some encouragement. 😆

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Webinar alert!

The Drawdown Explorer, containing detailed analysis and actionable insights on 140+ solutions, is live and free for all!

Tune into our upcoming webinar where Jonathan Foley, exec. director of Project Drawdown, will guide us through the platform.

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Make Solar Ubiquitous. Sign the Petition Today!

We just broke social media norms by using a big word in our headline. Now let's break bureaucratic norms.

Tell your local leaders you want solar . . . er . . . everywhere.

Sign the petition today: qrco.de/sun-day-petition

#SolarEnergy

How Did Solar Power Get Cheap? Part I Solar photovoltaics (PV) have become one of the cheapest sources of electricity. Lazard’s estimate of unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE)

Post-Sun Day (sunday.earth), seems appropriate to read how it came to be: compact, fascinating history of solar power, w/ many lessons learned--or not. From 2+ yrs ago, so a bit dated, esp. about China; but basic story remains amazing and transformative implications hopeful.

A win for Maryland gas utility customers - Maryland Matters Natural gas customers will save $1 billion over the next decade under a new Maryland policy that puts that cost where it belongs, writes Emily Scarr, on the utilities, which now earn $3 from existing ...

Thanks to MD PSC (www.psc.state.md.us), gas corporations can no longer unfairly charge existing customers big $ to add new customers--saves customers $1B in hidden fees & helps reduce the $1.3B in annual health costs due to gas burning equipment in MD.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Would be interesting and useful to track these numbers over time and to know how many of the % reactions are or are becoming part of Erica Chenoweth's 3.5% (tinyurl.com/yjbcd6sm).

More sampling last Friday at @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social's Gorman Rd/I-95 banner drop in MD. 1-hr period, 10 samples @ of # vehicles/min and # reactions/min (honking, flashing lights, hand waving), both directions I-95: avg ~100 vehicles/min, reactions ~14% southbound and ~10% northbound.

Avelo Airlines contracts with ICE to deport people abducted from their homes & communities. We join a nationwide movement to say NO! We are calling on Gov Moore to (easily & legally) end Maryland’s contract with Avelo. Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/go... #AveloOutOfBWI

Project Drawdown launches Drawdown Explorer, the world’s most comprehensive climate solutions platform The Drawdown Explorer provides actionable intelligence for the most effective science-based climate solutions

"Actionable intelligence for the most effective science-based climate solutions"; a useful guide to focusing efforts on what works *today*.