CharleyinMA
@charleyinma.bsky.social
Lover of clean air & water. Working for an equitable energy transition. Grow food. Limit snark.
Improving energy efficiency in buildings, transportation, and industry in the U.S. could save about $4.8 trillion in energy and related costs in the next decades—equivalent to almost $31,000 per household. Our new report⬇️ https://www.aceee.org/efficiency-saves
Yes and also should a climate disaster strike research and experience shows that local small businesses are a key part of the recovery, so you are investing in resilience too!!
Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · 8mo agoSupporting my local hardware store is a simple act of “multi-solving” that strengthens my community, my country, and makes me feel good. #Shop local @bethsawin.bsky.social
This is an amazing and, in my experience, almost entirely unappreciated benefit of electric vehicles that have vehicle-to-load or -home capabilities. (Most have V2L but few have V2H today.) EV companies should cultivate this capability and hit it much harder in their advertising.
Patrick Herd@patrickherd.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe recently had a ~30hour outage, neighbours were stunned that we even ran the dishwasher powered from the car.
Add Pennsylvania to the list of states with a credible accounting of how disastrous dedication to market fundamentalism has been. We talked about this in our Overcharged report: climateandcommunity.org/research/ove...
Brendon Slotterback@bslotterback.bsky.social · 8mo agoHere's an easy and fast fix for energy affordability: rein in the excesses of deregulated electricity. In PA, providers are allowed to hook people with teaser rates. Since 2015, customers have paid $2.2b more than if they'd stayed with a default provider www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
Ugh. “Mississippi residents who say they were sickened by toxic emissions from bioenergy giant Drax face painful setbacks: an increased pollution quota for Drax & uncertainty about whether a key federally funded study will provide any answers” New story with Alex Rozier & @mississippitoday.org
“Adding wood pellets to the combustion process was well-intentioned—to clean coal [as] the leading method of electricity generation. [Changes since then:] sharp drop in wind & solar prices, new studies showing that the pellets did not fulfill their promises.” #biomass www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...
Are Wood Pellets Worth Billions In Subsidies? Drax Faces A Reckoning
Policymakers are rethinking biomass as new research shows wood pellets may increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them. The focus is now on subsidies.
forbes.com
It’s time for a new business model RE public utilities, says @regassistproj.bsky.social reurt-zgpvh.campaign-view.com/ua/viewinbro...
Building a regulatory system for the 21st century
Building a regulatory system for the 21st century
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Not OK!
Emily Pontecorvo@emilypont.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe DOE revealed today that it cancelled some $30 billion in loan guarantees for Biden-era clean energy projects and is "revising" another $53 billion worth. Those numbers include public cancellations from last year like Grain Belt, but the remainder is ???? heatmap.news/sparks/83-bi...
One thing we are focusing on @multisolving.bsky.social these days are Seeds for the Future, examples of people/ communities meeting destabilization by building life sustaining futures. More soon about the project, but for now, this strikes me as an example. 19thnews.org/2026/01/eato...
She lost her school to a wildfire. What she saved was more important.
When the Eaton Fire destroyed Pasadena Rosebud Academy, its executive director focused on keeping her students engaged and her community intact, even without a campus.
19thnews.org
Anyone on here live in Brooklyn and participate in Con Ed's "Smart usage partner" program? (basically a demand response program)? Curious which partner you went with and about your experience!
In light of policy arguments over the cost of climate action, a trio of economists ask: how much is climate change costing Americans right now? heatmap.news/economy/clim...
Climate Change Is Already Costing U.S. Households Up to $900 Per Year
A new working paper from a trio of eminent economists tallies the effects of warming — particularly extreme weather — on Americans’ budgets.
heatmap.news
Between July 2024 and June 2025, the Southeast continued to experience record-setting growth in EV sales, with Florida leading the charge ⚡ To see how your state performed, check out our “Transportation Electrification in the Southeast” report: bit.ly/SACEETReport25 🔌💡
Welcome to another day where the failures of the dominant system are apparent & existentially threatening but the infrastructure of life sustaining societies is fragile or yet to be created. Keeping building anyway. And give yourself some grace for the contradictions inherent in this stage of things
ICYMI a chance to preserve educational / interpretive info that matters… National Parks, Smithsonian Museums, etc: sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
Sister Projects
Sister Projects
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🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of new power globally came from #cleanenergy sources. 🔌💡 Announced in July: solar power is now on average 41% cheaper than fossil fuels. Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day
“domination wears many masks,” writes John Seed journal.workthatreconnects.org/2025/09/29/r... @workthatreconnects.bsky.social via latest Deep Times Journal
Book Review: Coming Together in the Great Turning | Deep Times Journal
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Why are electric bills so high? If your monopoly utility spends $10 million on wires and transformers, your state will let them increase prices to recover the $10M plus ~$1M per year, every year for the foreseeable future. You and your neighbors will pay ~$35M for ~$10M of infrastructure.
Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!
NPR@npr.org · last yr.In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.
Extreme summer heat is our new reality - an intensifying crisis straining health, infrastructure, and wallets. ”when the heat was at its worst, it wasn’t fossil fuels that kept the power on: it was clean energy” 🔌💡 www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...
How clean energy met the moment in the New England summer of 2025 (Viewpoint)
This summer proved that renewables aren’t just a future promise; they are already delivering reliable, affordable, and resilient power when New England needs it most.
masslive.com
🔌💡 Last year, over 90% of new power globally came from #cleanenergy sources. 🔌💡 Announced in July: solar power is now on average 41% cheaper than fossil fuels. Source: Sept 2025 NYT interview w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social about Sun Day
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.
Dear NPR. No. Just no. This is not how you help. One of the several thousand actual road safety experts here. We are easy to find. Maybe give one of us a call next time, ok?
NPR@npr.org · last yr.In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed on the road, and in recent years, more than 1,000 cyclists have been hit and killed annually. Safety experts explain how bikers and walkers can stay safe.
