What a Beautiful State We Have. A Colorado State Open Thread, October 6, 2025
I’m not going to forget this week’s Open Thread, but I have had plenty of occasion to. I’m rushing off to get a series of allergy tests done in Fort Collins before coming back up to Estes Park for a...
View ArticleWomen lead solar project for off-grid homes in the Navajo Nation
FortLewis.edu-FLC News — Durango Herald — The Colorado SunFLC College Solar Initiative faculty, students, and alumni are bringing off-grid, hands-on solar installations to rural Diné households. backed...
View ArticleEnergy Bookshelf: McKibben's Here Comes The Sun
Unless you have been in a coma for several decades or living in Donald Trump's dystopian mind, these two things are quite evident truths:The climate crisis is worsening.Solar power is growing...
View ArticleCartoon: Winding down
The putative head of the Republican Party, the President of the United States, has been ranting and raving about wind and solar power for about as long as he's been opening his yap, and now he's...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and solar developments
An article (Aug. 25) by Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan begins with this:Saudi Arabia’s massive oil deposits and its 9.53 million barrels per day (bpd) of petroleum production make it...
View ArticleArtificial Incineration: The AI Frogs Are Bent On Boiling Us All In Their Own...
(This was originally posted on my blog at ibegtodiffer.substack.com Amidst all the hoopla these days about how exciting, useful, amazing and life-transforming artificial intelligence will be, a key...
View ArticleEPA - ignore science & climate change - cripple solar & wind power
Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, is the environmental hitman for Donald Trump. Coal and gas-fired power plants are fine. Dirty tailpipe emissions, no problem. Permit every polluting fossil fuel project...
View ArticleObservations of renewables on a cross-country trip.
We just drove from Michigan to the Phoenix area, following the same route as usual; the shortest route, which you can deduce by looking at a map. The states we crossed, lengthily or just briefly,...
View ArticleClimate Change Opposition
Two weeks ago, in Policy for the Opposition, I suggested the Democratic Party adopt official policy in opposition to policy the coming administration will pursue. We need people officially speaking for...
View ArticleReal People and Real Change Through Solar Power in Georgia
As part of Generation180’s program “Climate Cultura,” Fellow Erik Francisco Medina traveled to Savanah, Georgia, to speak to community leaders and solar developers to highlight the benefits solar power...
View ArticleOne Family at a Time
Thinking of ways to cope with the coming years ahead? Here is a poem with one broad suggestion of a direction. We are in this together, united in our individual actions...One Family at a TimeBeing...
View ArticleSolar is helping schools save big. Your district could be next.
*This story was originally published in Canary Media and features an interview with Generation180’s Tish Tablan.Nearly 9,000 K-12 schools nationwide have installed solar panels. Here’s how you can help...
View ArticleStaying online and helping neighbors thanks to green technology after...
* First and foremost, we at Generation180 hope you and your family are safe during this time of crisis. If you or your family need assistance, Appalachian Voices has compiled a list of resources to...
View ArticleA Campus Where the School Building is a Teacher
A Campus Where the School Building is a Teacher: How Bladen County is modeling clean energy adoption for North Carolina schoolsTar Heel School in Bladen County, North Carolina, is more than a place of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina County Nears 100% Clean Energy!
Blazing a Path to 100% Clean Energy by 2042 in Buncombe CountyBy 2042, the western North Carolina community of Buncombe County expects to be powered by 100% renewable energy – a first for the Tar Heel...
View ArticleBaltimore School Supports Families in Need Through Community Solar
In Baltimore, MD, a community school is using its rooftop to help school families and staff lower their electricity bills. The Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School (also known as...
View ArticleSolar-Powered School District Shines Bright in West Virginia’s Coal Country
Nestled along the western border of West Virginia in a region with a long history in coal mining, Wayne County Public Schools (WCPS) is looking toward a clean-powered future. WCPS is installing the...
View Article2024 Brighter Future Report: One in Nine K-12 Students Now Benefits from...
We're excited to share the fifth edition of Generation180's 2024 Brighter Future Report. Our findings are inspiring: solar capacity on K-12 schools has quadrupled since 2010 and more than one in nine...
View ArticleA high concept low tech solution for large solar farm installations
Something I hope will become more commonplace here and around the world, agrivoltaics, included a few snippets from the article:Meeting the United States’ ambitious clean energy goals will require...
View ArticleTomgram: Joshua Frank, What (Not) to Do in a Tinder-Box World
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.What a planet we’re now on. Whether it’s days (the two hottest ever recorded,...
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