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Earth Catalyst gathers & hand-filters the most recent updates from over 1,000 green tech and sustainability organizations. Here are all of the updates; if you subscribe to our free newsletter, we'll send you 3 each weekday we think will be meaningful to you.

When you see a hole, run through it

Writer: Marshall KirkpatrickMarshall Kirkpatrick

Today's a quiet day so far in the climate and sustainability news front as far as I can tell - let's take advantage of that to move our projects forward.


Mark Schaefer, a longtime leader in the marketing world and really smart guy, once used a football metaphor and told me there's a lot of power in watching for openings in the line of scrimmage and running through them to move the ball down the field.


What does that mean? It means sometimes your allies are able to open up a hole in the tangle of adversaries trying to stop your forward progress. When those quiet, brief, glorious openings emerge - run through them!


And so we offer you the best updates from around the green tech and sustainability world today. Email subscribers get 3 just for you.


Let's dig in.


-Marshall Kirkpatrick

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  • A digest-style Table of Contents for 206 selected updates from around the green tech and sustainability world

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Visual of the Day

How hot is unsafe? How hot is unsurvivable? It depends on where.

Uncharted territory lies ahead on our warming planet: a new set of data reveals the global regions where rising temperatures will cross critical human survival thresholds.


Published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, the findings paint a stark picture: at 2°C of warming above pre-industrial levels (a threshold we're rapidly approaching), around 6.7% of Earth's land area - roughly the size of the United States - will experience heat that overwhelms young, healthy adults' ability to regulate their body temperature. ("Uncompensable" temperatures.) For vulnerable populations like the elderly, the affected area expands to 35% of global land mass, with regions in South Asia and Africa facing the gravest risks first.




Today's Updates

Table of Contents

  • Agriculture (14 stories) - Brevel's microalgae protein deal, solar grazing sheep studies, DOE agrivoltaic prize in Colorado, while Brazilian soy threatens traditional farming and West African cocoa hits record prices


  • Carbon (14 stories) - Hansen warns 2°C target unreachable as LEGO invests $3.3M in biochar and enhanced rock weathering, while first ERW carbon credits launch in Brazil


  • Circular (6 stories) - Asset manager joins C2C Institute for furniture reuse; energy storage firm boosts recycling; NFL-Good360 repurpose game apparel; fashion sustainability lags; Chelan facility hits waste collection record


  • Ecosystems (22 stories) - Extreme weather hits Australia and Madagascar as Goodall-Earle conservation summit raises S$150k; monarch butterflies crash 96%, while dam removals aid Northeast rivers and AI tackles wildlife conflicts


  • Efficiency (4 stories) - Tax credits drive 350K efficient homes; Florida heat pump success; New Mexico's building emissions plan; DeepSeek's efficient AI model


  • Finance (7 stories) - Investor coalition, State Farm rate hikes, EU Hydrogen Bank reforms, and Texas renewables drive major financial moves amid climate risks


  • Grid (17 stories) - Grid modernization efforts span PG&E's AI storm prep, CPUC's $63B expansion plans, CenterPoint's $5.75B Houston upgrades, while UK's Drax and RenewableUK push storage integration amid transmission challenges in Oklahoma and Australia


  • Indigenous (12 stories) - Indigenous fire management expands across 8 states while USAID cuts threaten Amazon programs; Pomo, Sámi, and Olympic Peninsula tribes tackle watershed restoration, forestry training amid land rights challenges


  • Industry (26 stories) - BNEF reports US clean energy manufacturing delays, KORE Power cancels Arizona gigafactory, while ES Foundry and Solex Energy expand solar production; nuclear firms partner with Texas A&M for SMR development


  • Policy (64 stories) - USAID climate programs threatened by Trump shutdown; federal climate data removed; Senate battles methane rules; state-level clean energy initiatives face funding cuts amid policy shifts


  • Renewables (14 stories) - Record solar projects in NZ and India, Kinematics-P4Q merger creates largest tracker supplier, CIGS-perovskite efficiency breakthrough, Eco Wave Power's grid milestone, plus major wind developments in Tasmania, Virginia, and Australia


  • Transport (6 stories) - African nations back CNG, Poland debuts EV subsidies, Renault leads French EV surge, NASA plans hydrogen aircraft tests, Tesla sees European sales slump



Agriculture

Brevel's microalgae protein deal, solar grazing sheep studies, DOE agrivoltaic prize in Colorado, while Brazilian soy threatens traditional farming and West African cocoa hits record prices



Carbon

Hansen warns 2°C target unreachable as LEGO invests $3.3M in biochar and enhanced rock weathering, while first ERW carbon credits launch in Brazil



Circular

Asset manager joins C2C Institute for furniture reuse; energy storage firm boosts recycling; NFL-Good360 repurpose game apparel; fashion sustainability lags; Chelan facility hits waste collection record



Ecosystems

Extreme weather hits Australia and Madagascar as Goodall-Earle conservation summit raises S$150k; monarch butterflies crash 96%, while dam removals aid Northeast rivers and AI tackles wildlife conflicts



Efficiency

Tax credits drive 350K efficient homes; Florida heat pump success; New Mexico's building emissions plan; DeepSeek's efficient AI model



Finance

Investor coalition, State Farm rate hikes, EU Hydrogen Bank reforms, and Texas renewables drive major financial moves amid climate risks



Grid

Grid modernization efforts span PG&E's AI storm prep, CPUC's $63B expansion plans, CenterPoint's $5.75B Houston upgrades, while UK's Drax and RenewableUK push storage integration amid transmission challenges in Oklahoma and Australia



Indigenous

Indigenous fire management expands across 8 states while USAID cuts threaten Amazon programs; Pomo, Sámi, and Olympic Peninsula tribes tackle watershed restoration, forestry training amid land rights challenges



Industry

BNEF reports US clean energy manufacturing delays, KORE Power cancels Arizona gigafactory, while ES Foundry and Solex Energy expand solar production; nuclear firms partner with Texas A&M for SMR development



Policy

USAID climate programs threatened by Trump shutdown; federal climate data removed; Senate battles methane rules; state-level clean energy initiatives face funding cuts amid policy shifts



Renewables

Record solar projects in NZ and India, Kinematics-P4Q merger creates largest tracker supplier, CIGS-perovskite efficiency breakthrough, Eco Wave Power's grid milestone, plus major wind developments in Tasmania, Virginia, and Australia



Transport

African nations back CNG, Poland debuts EV subsidies, Renault leads French EV surge, NASA plans hydrogen aircraft tests, Tesla sees European sales slump


 
 
 

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