Third Act Maine
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Third Act Maine is Maine elders committed to stopping all new fossil fuel investment and development. Our mission will be accomplished through the joyful practice of nonviolence, uplifting youth and developing community. Visit: thirdact.org/maine
Oppressive heat. Species extinctions. Pollution-choked skies. This will continue and worsen unless humanity takes drastic steps to end a series of mushrooming environmental crises, finds #GEO7. See more: https://unep.org/news-and-stories/story/without-big-changes-what-environment-will-look-2050
The very good and bad news on climate "Here’s the good news: Green energy is getting better and cheaper, faster than we had ever dared hope." @billmckibben.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
Opinion | The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.
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Trump vs. McKibben on the Costs of Blocking Clean Energy www.laprogressive.com/the-environm... @billmckibben.bsky.social @laprogressive.bsky.social
Trump vs. McKibben on the Costs of Blocking Clean Energy
One side promises that fossil fuels will bring prosperity; the evidence points instead to lost jobs, shrinking growth and increasingly costly climate disasters.
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The MAGA response to wildfire smoke is like a CT scan of their raddled bellicosity open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be
MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity
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Deeply important work. Thanks to @rebleber.bsky.social and team
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w agoNEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
Bloated and Gassy. Trump's...energy policy, and what it's going to cost us all open.substack.com/pub/billmcki... @billmckibben.bsky.social
Bloated and Gassy
Trump's...energy policy, and what it's going to cost us all
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this is absolutely excellent and essential, clear, as hopeful as it is urgent, and we should all demand that — to win our votes, and a future for our species — McKibben’s message here becomes core to the platform of every person in, or running for, public office: energy from heaven not from hell
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
"Energy from heaven, not from hell" Watch TA Founder @billmckibben.bsky.social break down how energy from the sun became the best option on Earth — and why this narrow window of time may be our last real shot at a different future. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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I keep sayin' that the economics of solar would/might save us. Better to hear it from someone with street cred. Please send this TED talk to everyone you know. Tell any and all politicians that they need to get on board. Don't fire up coal, gas, or nuclear—solar/wind is the only way. #billmckibben
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
“Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, but none of those miles go through the strait of Hormuz.” Bill McKibben on why solar energy is a no brainer.
Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · last wk.So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
ted.com
Having put federal lands off limits to solar panels, the Trump administration is opening them up to...data centers www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...
Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers
In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.
nytimes.com
"The officials wrote that most of their constituents live in apartment buildings without access to yards or roofs suitable for larger solar installations. They argue that plug-in panels could give those residents a cheaper and more accessible way to participate in the solar economy."
NYC officials urge Hochul to sign balcony solar bill
Nearly 30 NYC officials are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill clearing utility barriers for plug-in balcony solar panels.
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As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
"This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed. It's corruption on steroids."
'Corruption on Steroids': Republicans Kill Effort to Prevent Trump Tax Audit Immunity
"Trump’s sweetheart audit immunity deal is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt action taken by a president in American history," said one top Senate Democrat.
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"What we’re seeing is a clear sign of the escalating impacts of [human-caused] warming.” "all countries must move faster from fossil fuels to renewables and protect people from worsening climate impacts, from wildfires, to megastorms and floods, to droughts hitting food production.”
‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather
Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely
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“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
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Green Century reports that "The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States with more than 1 million parishioners, recently made an historic decision to remove the great bulk of its investments from the fossil fuel industry." tinyurl.com/Presb-Church...
New Yorkers must push back against the misinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry and anti-solar influencers. Share this article with your friends. Spread the facts, stop the misinformation! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
New York takes on the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
As the White House and viral influencers push misleading info about solar, New York says the facts show the clean energy source and agriculture can thrive…
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Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets
ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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HANDS OFF OUR VOTE! Trump is trying to sabotage the midterms and we can't let him succeed. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. Use this link to join us. share.indvs.org/s/lHrecdcp
We are democracy's strongest line of defense.
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All of these plans are to keep the attacks, assaults and abductions of kids out of our view. The regime has seen what happens when everyday people catch wind of the crimes committed against kids. We clap back and we get results. (image credit: www.instagram.com/p/DUMQfbzkeA3/)
As of the end of today, RFK and his henchman at the Department of Health and Human Services have put themselves in charge of 20,000 immigrant kids on their own in America. (image credit - supportkind.org/unaccompanie...)
After seven months of not paying what they owe the lawyers on contract to represent unaccompanied kids, HHS has ended that contract for these kids to have any representation at all. imprintnews.org/top-stories/...
Lawyers for Migrant Children Speak Out: Kids Could be Left Alone in Court | The Imprint
Tens of thousands of migrant children may soon face deportation without proper representation, their legal advocates said at a press briefing Tuesday.
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Look up just who is funding the people you are thinking of voting for.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d agoNonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. Use our database (just updated!) to more easily search these organizations’ finances 👇
Please pay attention. If we do not pivot public spending into climate resiliency, things will get real ugly real fast.
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 5d ago‘It’s too fast, too big’ Yup - the penny is dropping Across the entire geological record, our world has NEVER heated up as rapidly as it has in the last hundred years or so www.theguardian.com/environment/...
