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Renewable Friday: Sun Day is the Day After Tomorrow Worldwide! [1]

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Date: 2025-09-19

After decades of Gloom and Doom, such as his book The End of Nature, Bill McKibben is now full of joyous gratitude and optimism, because we have the solutions to Global Warming at last. First and foremost, we have a vast fusion reactor in the sky giving us many times more sunlight than we can use, powering solar panels, wind turbines, and the tides (along with the Moon, of course).

Production Note Bluesky recently added the ability to bookmark posts, which I find vastly useful for collecting information for this and other topics I write about. I don’t have to go back and forth between Bluesky and several Diary drafts now. I can divide my time between marking items and embedding them. Division of labor, per Adam Smith. So here they are.

The only problem with this is that there are far too many items to fit in here.

x No one gets this moment any better than the ever-eloquent @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, so much fun to be working with her on Sun Day

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-future-i...



[image or embed] — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM

I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar concentrator power plants, the kind where rings of mirrors reflect sun onto a central tower, which I think is now an outdated model, but it was striking to see the literally dazzling array; the second was a big field of solar panels around the town of Mojave that appeared to be tipping toward the setting sun; and then a long array of wind turbines just before the desert ends as the road heads uphill into Tehachapi, the town that straddles the pass between the Central Valley and the desert. Renewables are the future and they're inevitable; the one question is whether we'll make the transition swiftly enough to forestall the worst of climate change. We could. We know exactly how to do it, and we know exactly what the obstacles to doing it are.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

174.4K followers 1.4K following 3.9K posts Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com

Rebecca Solnit - Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

x I spent some time with @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about solar energy and walked away with a feeling that I almost had forgotten about: hope. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...



[image or embed] — Sabrina Shankman (@shankman.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM

x Journalists! Join us tomorrow for an editorial meeting to talk about Phase 2 of the 89% Project. Learn all about the project and how your newsroom can participate here: 89percent.org. And join us tomorrow to talk with colleagues from around the world. #the89percent



[image or embed] — Covering Climate Now (@coveringclimatenow.org) September 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM

You might have heard that Africa is getting into the solar transition in a big way, but it’s much more helpful to have the data. Look at those near-vertical lines, now that solar panels are cheap enough, and international funding is available. Whatever you thought you knew is now wildly out of date.

This is not the story any more.

Old news, baby steps back then

This car is not coming to the US any time soon, but the company has plans to sell it all over Latin America.

Olinia: Mexico’s $4,500 EV Challenges Tesla & Nissan

x Goodbye Tesla, hello OLINIA! Mexico takes a giant step in the automotive industry with OLINIA, the first 100% Mexican electric car. Innovation, technology and national pride in every design. Clean energy, efficiency and cutting edge. Made in Mexico, for the world.



[image or embed] — Democratic Activists (@democratswin.bsky.social) March 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM

x My sleepover in a subzero climate lab with a heat pump

->The Times | #HeatPump #Climate | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) September 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM

x High-speed rail is coming to #Canada! This week, federal government fast-tracked the Alto project. Will link #Quebec City- #Montreal - #Ottawa - #Toronto , a corridor with half Canada's population. Projected to carry 30 million passengers a year—twice US Northeast Corridor—on 300 km/h trains. 🚄🧵



[image or embed] — 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (@taras-grescoe.com) September 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM

Mozambique is in the throes of a democratic revolution right now. I plan to write about that for the More and Better Democracies group. This is one of many factors making that possible.

See also the item on Total under Denial.

x Mozambique has won World Bank backing for a $6 billion hydroelectric plant, southern Africa’s biggest such project in 50 years. Mozambique is one of the world’s poorest countries by per capita income, and it aims to connect all of its 33 million mostly rural citizens to electricity by 2030.



[image or embed] — The Associated Press (@apnews.com) September 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM

The Pakistani government is clueless about the country’s vast pollution, among many other things. This is people power, privately installed on roofs and balconies.

x "Pakistanis installed the equivalent of half the national grid in solar capacity in 2024, often figuring out how to do it themselves from videos on TikTok and YouTube." www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-S...



[image or embed] — Colin Schultz (@colinschultz.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM

x Cascading, Compound, Concurrent — watchwords you'll be seeing a LOT more as climate risks ramp up Interaction of physical hazards with socioeconomic context, factors & mechanisms will be hugely important in terms of what & how impacts eventuate For instance, are a large number of people directly..



[image or embed] — Yung En Chee (@yungenchee.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM

x Anyone who wants to stream or show this film, please do! It's a powerful way to get folks thinking about solar



[image or embed] — Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™

The current corrupt EPA leader Lee Zeldin has tried to deny that there is such a thing as Global Warming, and that CO 2 is its main cause.

x In another strike against US climate policy, Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced on Friday afternoon that the agency is proposing to end the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). cen.acs.org/policy/EPA-p... #chemsky 🧪



[image or embed] — C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) (@cenmag.bsky.social) September 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM

x 📣The report says EPA’s Endangerment Finding was “accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence. Much of the understanding of climate change that was uncertain or tentative in 2009 has now been resolved by scientific research.” bit.ly/4mp2kxI



[image or embed] — UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns (@ucsclimate.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM

x In Mozambique, Total is ripping apart land and communities to feed its monstrous gas empire, relying on a global architecture of impunity to shield it. This is organised plunder. But the struggle continues as we build a system to achieve climate justice, rooted in people power and centred on life.



[image or embed] — Friends of the Earth International (@foeint.bsky.social) July 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM

As the Scots say,

Many a mickle makes a muckle.

x Did you know that 1000s of oil spills take place in the ocean every year? 🛢️⚠️ When disasters like Deepwater Horizon happen, WHOI scientists work with first responders to track & mitigate the damage. 📲Learn how science helps us prepare for the worst: go.whoi.edu/oilspills #TogetherforScience



[image or embed] — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (@whoi.edu) September 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Do the suits in Detroit WANT their lunch eaten? Again?

Beef has the highest carbon footprint of any meat. Adding in a few organic apples does not help, but can create the illusion that it does.

x 🛒 The green shopping illusion



A new study shows we often think adding eco-friendly items lowers our total footprint, but it actually raises it. This 'negative footprint illusion' can mislead shoppers, businesses & even policies



🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AB....



#SciComm 🧪 #Psychology #CarbonFootprint



[image or embed] — Prof Sam Illingworth (@samillingworth.com) September 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM

x The amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/clim...



[image or embed] — Josie Glausiusz (@josiegz.bsky.social) September 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Investing teradollars now will save hundreds of teradollars to come.

x Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton Species That Fuels the Food Web

->The Energy Mix | #Food #Biodiversity #Species #Phytoplankton | More info from EcoSearch



[image or embed] — Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry (@bigearthdata.bsky.social) September 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM

x Good to see National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigating #Tesla over doors that fail to open. Some owners reportedly resorted to breaking windows to rescue children who were trapped inside. @teslatakedown.com @shuasanchez.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...



[image or embed] — Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (@autosafety4all.bsky.social) September 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM

This is good news, right? Not so fast (ha-ha) says the BBC.

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