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Electricity for all, public power, green social housing, and a livable climate 💛 🌏🚰🔌🌱 they in San Francisco
Latest: “On Queer People in Climate and Energy” isaacsevier.com/notes/lgbtq-queer-in-stem-for-climate-energy-utility-justice-policy/
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s. e. smith
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Just my luck that I covered California’s fight for an indoor heat standard and the feds finally announced that they’re getting serious about federal guidance. Anyway read my article about California!
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isaac
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The "inexorable" march of renewables continues.
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isaac
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Just an enormous amount of infrastructure that liberal donors invest comparatively nothing in.
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isaac
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when the cat has a little dream
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isaac
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Thanks for your work. It is so important. I get asked by early career folks what could be most useful as they try to find their path and one of my answers is to do what you're doing. We need many more progressive public servants. I hope you can build community that supports and needs you.
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isaac
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Can't wait to read this!
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J. Mijin Cha
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Ahh, it’s so real now!! Pre-order sale next week :)
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isaac
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"RAGA is incredibly well-funded. Federalist Society Svengali Leonard Leo is a donor, as are all the usual GOP donor-class supervillains, including Koch Industries, the National Rifle Association, the American Petroleum Institute...corporations, from ExxonMobil to CVS."
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isaac
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Joining RAGA in filing the appeals court case of Ohio was the Western States Petroleum Association and the Texas Oil & Gas Association, familiar parties for all in climate.
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isaac
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You can always tell when RAGA is involved. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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isaac
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ICYMI (i did): Between the gratuities case (Snyder v U.S.) and the homelessness case (Grants Pass v. Johnson) was this case where far right attorneys general blocked EPA rules limiting ozone pollution (Ohio v. EPA) saying EPA used a “dictatorial approach”: www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supr...
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isaac
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OTOH this $5-10 Billion is going to natural gas power plants. Frustrating. www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
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isaac
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"The PACE program...funded for up to $1 billion under the Inflation Reduction Act, offers rural co-ops and other power providers infrastructure loans with repayment forgiveness of 20% to 40% ... in underserved rural communities and up to 60% in tribal communities."
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isaac
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I think we're in different stages of these subindustries which means different options are on the table but yes, in principle, i think cementing a profit motive into the electricity industry has been a net negative for everyone.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too
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Je Hyeon Sim 심제현 grampy radish
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when your a hammer* the whole world looks like nails** *hungry **dumplings
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Ursula
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I return to this quote a lot. It coaxes me away from my two worst impulses—overwhelming urgency and doomerism—and reminds me to act, daily, as best I can, because one never knows the exact historical coordinates of windows of possibility.
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isaac
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Agree. 200 postcards among 10 people feels a lot more sustainable, too, from a perspective of “will I do this again with others?”
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isaac
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I also am skeptical of the studies they produced themselves showing that it was better than other options. It is impossible to isolate and describe the effect of one or two pieces of mail especially in the types of races and the types of voters they target.
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isaac
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There’s a mix of things to think about underneath “public power” and how much work is needed on munis but one thing I’m sure of is that there’s better ways to build energy storage than to let private developers do it and charge us rents.
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isaac
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The last few days a bunch of postcard writing electoral stuff went around and I think canvassing locally is better at one particular thing— connecting you to people who live and care in your district or your city. Postcard writing sounds lonely when we need durable connection more than ever.
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isaac
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We haven’t seen or heard very much out of these countries just pummeled by a cat 5 storm because there is little way to get information in or out.
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isaac
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“[SVG Prime Minister] Gonsalves expressed concerns about access to international finance to fund rebuilding and called on richer countries to honour their climate commitments.”
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isaac
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“[Grenada’s prime minister] described “Armageddon-like” scenes of “almost total destruction”, with approximately 98% of building structures damaged or destroyed and an almost complete wipeout of the electrical grid and communications systems.”
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isaac
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isaac
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Now I want to see what happens if I make a ravioli and cook it in the steamer basket instead of boiling it
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isaac
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“The court’s order is a win for the Edison Electric Institute and utility NorthWestern Energy” It’s really important to understand who our enemies are in the electricity sector and what options are available or needed in order to do something about it.
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Prisonculture
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When people were pointing out that the NYT was actively cheerleading Israel's genocide of Palestinians, several people said that this wasn't the case. Now some of these same people are witnessing their full court press to get Biden to step down and this is legible to them. What gives?
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isaac
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Really matters that all of us working on energy become crystal clear about who we're fighting for and why.
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isaac
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Anyone who thinks we don't need the grid is living in a libertarian and misogynist fantasy land where only the fittest and wealthiest families survive. Based on current reality, that's bad news for all of the most marginalized people in wealthy economies AND for global environmental justice.
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isaac
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Much like the language about GHGs over racial justice in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, the ends of going along with any government the future holds will justify the means of harming many for some climate folks who have not had a robust social and political analysis to date.
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isaac
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I've thought about this more and i think this is something to be sober about because being associated with climate work generally is not going to be a very good indicator going forward for whether one is anti-fascist or not. It has been a mistake to think interest in GHGs = progressive for awhile.
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isaac
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Really great essay about what went into producing that piece and how hard it is - and dangerous in more than a few ways - to try and work towards justice once injustice is printed and the ink is dry. Solidarity.
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Sara Luterman
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“‘These are deeply personal decisions and we believe these surgeries should be reserved for adults,’ a White House spokesperson said in an emailed statement.”
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isaac
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Something truly dystopian about a corporation filming and BRANDING the footage of the massive ecosystem and human destruction their business model has caused.
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isaac
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I like how PG&E put their watermark on these so when the photos of California fires are submitted in future court cases for utility negligence it's clear whose equipment was there.
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Michael
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scotus is ripping up abortion rights, pre-ordaining a future donald trump a lawless god king, rolling back the new deal and gains of the civil rights movement. nobody has to give a shit what dave weigel thinks is the "right" way to do anything
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isaac
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There's this unfounded, utopian belief in the clean energy world that big tech corporate actors can be trusted on climate. People have argued with me that the firms should be highly trusted and, in fact, compete or take over from regulated utilities. That's a naive analysis and wrong, it turns out.
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isaac
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Should say that industrial actors and the people who profit off the way electricity policy has been made absolutely have a strategy and they have won. Everyone else loses.
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isaac
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Most of the common practices in electricity policy around who pays are simply being pursued for their own sake, not any real strategy that achieves societal objectives. It's super fascinating if it weren't so grotesque in terms of its racial and economic outcomes.
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isaac
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The disaster of the commons isn't real and was made up by a eugenecist.
Price signals don't curb consumption if you're wealthy enough to afford it in the first place.
How it's generated is precisely the argument here. Universal and free is a good way to expedite change.
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JW Mason
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This is the government that Biden and co are doing everything in their power to support. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240701-ben...
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isaac
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Good for people's pocketbooks, good for the clean energy transition, good for the planet.
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isaac
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Political dead end to insist that everyone stop using gasoline, gas, propane, etc and all switch to electricity if 25-35% of all American's can't afford their existing energy costs.
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isaac
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I'm going to have to write this up and put it somewhere more visible aren't i.
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isaac
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Electricity should be universal and free if we're going to pin literally every personal energy use needed to live and work to it.
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isaac
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Just have to reiterate today that energy policy people who insist 6% is a reasonable energy burden for poor people don't know what they're talking about AND ignorant of all of the great work housing policy wonks have done to try and make Affordable Housing cost caps inclusive of energy costs.
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isaac
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from what i've experienced irl climate careerists are becoming much easier to distinguish now that the stakes are clear and goals within the big climate tent are diverging
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isaac
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And so many jobs i took just for the side perk of that job. Free food if i made sandwiches. Discounted clothes if i worked at the GAP which i needed to buy an entire wardrobe of work clothes for my first big internship.
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isaac
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The best one was probably shelving books at the library. So quiet, so peaceful, and fed all my brain's need for things to be organized really neatly.
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