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– Bryan Bixcul, SIRGE Coalition (Securing
Indigenous Rights in the Green Economy)
Head and Heart Appeals: We're Doing It, It's Happening
From energy risk management firm DNV's remarkable short firm The Great Energy Transition: A Future Worth Building We've already started,...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 26
Solar Grows 30% YoY: Here's the Global Energy Mix
From IEA's new Global Energy Review 2025 Too much coal, too much natural gas, solar up 30% year over year, in its 22nd consecutive year...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 25
There's a Beaver for That!
The group Southern Oregon Climate Action Now has testified in favor of Oregon bill HB 3932: Relating to Protecting Beavers . The bill...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 24
Donald Trump does not hate trees
He hates programs to plant trees in poor Black neighborhoods. Trump may hate trees too, I'm sure he doesn't appreciate them, but the...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 21
1.5C Surpassed, but Still Within Reach, UN Says
The UN highlighted the work of photographer Muhammad Amdad Hossain in its announcement " The latest State of the Global Climate report...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 19
Science Based Targets Grow Stronger
Starting with Z, companies in the US who have set SBTi targets. If your company sells to enterprise-scale customers, some big new...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 19
Raise the ceiling or the floor?
The top story in green tech and sustainability today is the English government's announcement that it will pause and rewrite its program...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 18
Monday Morning Update
Today's Updates Table of Contents Agriculture  (4 stories) - Microplastic crop impacts, fog-harvesting nets in Morocco/Chile, solar...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 17
FBI Action Against Climate Orgs and Green Banks: What, Why, and What it Means
I don't know why anything is shocking anymore, but the top story today in sustainability today is undoubtedly the FBI and EPA's move...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 13
Northvolt's battery bankruptcy
F The ambitious European battery project Northvolt  will file for bankruptcy, after raising $15B in financing, due to a list of...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 12
Don't Lower Your Standards; Up Your Game!
Don't lower your standards; up your game! That seems to be the lesson from Australia's "Faster to yes, faster to no" strategy. While the...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 11
Could Canadian Leadership Bring Smart Transition Strategy?
Canada will be led by a renewable energy advocate, Mark Carney, until a national election is held. Below, an image from a keynote he gave...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 10
Coca-Cola Invests in Carbon Insetting
Coca-Cola announced this week that it is investing in Avalo , an AI-powered "plant evolution startup," to reduce the water and fertilizer...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 7
21 Inspiring Transformation Changemakers
If you'd like some inspiring examples of deep transformative work to change humanity's current relationship with the rest of the earth,...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 6
How the Biodiversity Breakthrough This Week Was Made
From EDF's Building Trust and Consensus at CBD COP16: A Breakthrough for Biodiversity Finance A major international negotiation to...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mar 5
States Graded on Support For Local Clean Energy
We know it's up to cities and states to deal with climate change in the US now, right? That means it's time to look at how well equipped...
Andrea Gonzales
Mar 4
In Downturns, Future Leaders Innovate
"History shows that those who are strategic in their investments in innovation during challenging times often emerge as leaders," writes...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Feb 28
Investing to Loosen Bottlenecks
(Almost) Everyone wants to decarbonize the economy, but there are bottlenecks. Including in the continent where a huge amount of the...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Feb 27
BP Refocuses on Petroleum
Good afternoon. BP has " fundamentally reset " its relationship to net zero plans, slashing investment in renewables, boosting investment...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Feb 26
Record breaking renewables
Despite everything in the US, the Energy Information Administration STILL expects 93% of the record breaking new energy capacity to be...
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Feb 25
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