Sarah Green @fatamorgana@qoto.org

The #Michigan Department of #Environment, Great Lakes, and #Energy is encouraging local governments to sign up for free technical assistance to bring #solarpower to their communities. SolSmart is a no-cost program to help local governments by training staff, offering guidance on #solar permits, and technical advice. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

https://www.michiganradio.org/environment-climate-change/2023-04-01/free-technical-advice-available-to-local-governments-to-encourage-solar-power

#news #EGLE #solarenergy

Hello wonderful fediverse followers. Your interactions have been so much better than what we experienced in the previous decade on Twitter. Just wanted to say that.

In 2019, trains in the US traveled 777 million train-kilometers and experienced 1,338 derailments.

The same year trains in the EU traveled 4.5 billion train-kilometers and experienced 73 derailments.

Japan: 2 billion train-kilometers and 9 derailments.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/us/raymond-minnesota-train-derailment/index.html

Will the Osborne Effect (consumers won't buy because something better is coming) show up in cars? Consumer Reports seems to think so.
#EV #climate

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1139229_study-brands-not-meeting-ev-demand-will-lose-market-share

This took me far, far too long to clock.... 😂
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RT @hausfath
Many of us have recently started to despair about our ability to limit warming to 1.5C without overshoot.

I'm happy to announce, today, we have made great strides to making the impossible possible. And the answer was below our feet this whole time (if were were on a boat).
https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1642203500875763712

📌BREAKING:

Greatest scientific discovery of the century just announced. 👇

https://nzz.ch/wissenschaft/gletscher-der-erde-klimawandel-halbiert-mindestens-ihre-zahl-ld.412023-aprilfool'sjoke

THEY FOUND IT‼️ - Dark Matter

Accolades pour in from around the world‼️

We’re often told not to mix business with politics, but consider this:

IL Dem Gov Pritzker just signed into law guaranteed paid leave to all IL workers.😄

MN Dem Gov Walz just signed into law free universal school breakfast & lunch for all children.😄

MI Dem Gov Whitmer just signed into law a repeal of anti-labor right to work for all workers.😄

AR GOP Gov Huckabee just signed into law making child labor easier for corporations to exploit.😳

🎶 One of these things, is not like the others. 🎶

But wait, if I don't exist, how can I press the button?

#existentialism #philosophy #typography #typographyitmatters #worldpoetryday #humor #humour #funny #poetry #zen #poem

Again, @molly0xfff nails it:

"Faced with the choice between the more communal, cooperative choice and the self-serving, every-man-for-himself choice destined to end in a bank run, it should be no surprise which option [the venture capitalists] picked. As the Titanic sank, they were the ones pushing people out of the lifeboats."

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma

Ingenious, Indigenous cartography: The Tunumiit (Eastern Greenlandic Inuit) practice of carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.

Very much a fan of this image from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ that shows why that recent UN treaty on protecting the ocean beyond national jurisdiction matters - this is a HUGE proportion of Earth's surface. #ocean #BBJN https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21708.doc.htm