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Australia offers free solar power, one roof at a time Home solar is a node in a vast, decentralized clean power network

The @globalsolarcouncil.bsky.social is at #COP30 with a bold new target: 300 Million Solar Homes by 2030—to deliver clean, reliable, affordable power

@petermckillop.bsky.social: solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.

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Dispatch from COP: Hunter Lovins arrives at COP30 in sweltering ‘Belhell’ Belém - Climate and Capital Media ‘30 Years of climate talks, emissions doubled, but I’m still fighting’

Read Climate and Capital Media contributing editor, @hlovins.bsky.social’ first on-the-ground report from #COP30 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon.

Vancouver’s climate leadership is a promise we can’t break Eliminating the city’s climate and sustainability department is a betrayal of our collective future, write Carol Liao and Naomi Klein

We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...

Dispatch from COP: Hunter Lovins arrives at COP30 in sweltering ‘Belhell’ Belém ‘30 Years of climate talks, emissions doubled, but I’m still fighting’

Read Climate and Capital Media contributing editor, @hlovins.bsky.social’ first on-the-ground report from #COP30 in Belém in the Brazilian Amazon.

www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/dispatch-fro...

Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying Claude Code carried out 80-90% of the attack on its own, according to Anthropic.

This is the first documented case of a foreign government using AI to fully automate a cyber operation, Anthropic warned.

Bhutan and beyond: Surprising smaller countries accelerating into renewables and EVs Where economics and self-reliance are reason enough to pivot

Renewables have toppled coal as the world’s top power source.

While the US & EU stall, countries like 🇧🇹 Bhutan, 🇳🇵Nepal, 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka & 🇲🇻 Maldives are accelerating toward clean energy for economics, self‑reliance & resilience.

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Supported by the @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social, the initiative builds on findings from the @iea.org, @un.org & @irena-official.bsky.social showing solar’s accelerating momentum 🔁

🔬 Rooftop adoption at this scale could push solar past its tipping point into global market dominance.

Rooftop solar is the "fast-breeder superpower reactor" of energy ⚡

🌞 300M homes = upto 2.5 TW of capacity, nearly double today’s global solar fleet
🌍 Cuts 1–2 Gt CO₂ each year — like removing hundreds of millions of cars from the road

Australia offers free solar power, one roof at a time Home solar is a node in a vast, decentralized clean power network

The @globalsolarcouncil.bsky.social is at #COP30 with a bold new target: 300 Million Solar Homes by 2030—to deliver clean, reliable, affordable power.

@petermckillop.bsky.social: Solar power is on its way to being as cheap & ubiquitous as the internet.
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Australia offers free solar power, one roof at a time Home solar is a node in a vast, decentralized clean power network

🇦🇺 Australia’s rooftop solar rise is nothing short of transformational, writes @petermckillop.bsky.social.

Homeowners have installed so many panels that some states will offer three hours of “free electricity” every day, even if you don’t have solar.⚡️

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Tony Lent's Top 5 Deals: Standard Chartered signs $150 million carbon credit deal with Brazil’s Acre State Standard Chartered has signed a five‑year exclusive agreement with the Brazilian State of Acre to bring up to 5 million jurisdictional forest carbon credits to market, starting in 2026, potentially un...

As #COP30 kicks off -

1️⃣ Standard Chartered signs $150 million carbon credit deal with Brazil’s Acre State

2️⃣ European governments & IDB invest $60 million in zero-deforestation soy fund in Brazil

Read Tony Lent of Capital for Climate’s top 5 deals

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Farming smarter: How AI can help farmers regenerate land, empower workers and feed the future Investors look to AI integration of data to create scalable systems

🌾 How #AI can help farmers regenerate land, empower workers and feed the future?

Craig Wichner of Farmland LP shares how his organisation is working to help achieve these goals 👇

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#RegenerativeAgriculture

Perhaps the most striking thing about Bill Gates' lil memo "three tough truths about climate" is quite how many responses there have been. A wee thread to gather some together (add others that I've missed, please)

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Bill Gates is just plain wrong about climate change After 20 years positioning himself as a climate expert, Gates is now making straw man arguments and exposing the 'audacity' of a billionaire who thinks he can lecture the world.

Adele Peters - Bill Gates is just plain wrong about climate change

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You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

Michael E Mann - You can't reboot the planet if you crash it

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Climate Gates Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything

Bill McKibben - Climate Gates

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I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between September and October by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 520,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,440,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,170,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,410,000 km² below the 1980s mean

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Now this is interesting…

THEY FOUND THE ANTIFA HANDBOOK! IT'S THE CONSTITUTION!

Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.

If you can afford it in the UK. Our policy is for universal, free availability of vaccines. This ultimately saves the NHS money. #GreensAgainstCovid @greenparty.org.uk

The underlying fundamental economics have changed dramatically: solar is now so cheap that businesses and households all around the world install it often without subsidies. Throw in batteries and the business case just keeps improving.

This is a striking statement. You can look at it pastorally, if you’re disposed to that. But it is a political statement. He hasn’t been there long. He is in a position of strength, and he knows it.

If you delete the SNAP contingency fund language from the USDA site, what you’re really saying is that you know that you could feed people and you’d rather not.

China Press Review 10/26 Themes from the state-controlled media emphasize self-reliance, technological sovereignty, and global leadership, framing climate action as proof of China’s moral and political ascendancy and defining...

In CCM’s latest China media roundup on climate & finance: State-run media frame climate action as a pillar of national identity — emphasising self-reliance, tech sovereignty & global leadership, calling carbon neutrality a “great power responsibility”

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ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

There’s a name for this.

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