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Our Lastest Monthly Action
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November 15, 2020
SPEND MONEY WITH CLIMATE IN MIND
It’s always a good time to harness the power of your money to support climate solutions. Here, we offer two examples of ways you can align your spending with climate protection, but there are many more. If you bank or have a credit card with...
Lastest Blog Posts
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December 14, 2020
We are taking a winter break!
Power Up for Climate Solutions is taking a winter break. It’s time for us to rest, reassess, and realign our efforts with the rapidly evolving social, political, and climate landscape of 2021. For the next few months we are pausing our monthly actions, blog posts, and...
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September 30, 2020
Changing the odds: Rebecca Solnit on hope and action in dark times
I’ve long admired Rebecca Solnit’s writing, and today I want to share some excerpts from her essay in The Guardian, “Climate change, Covid–our hearts ache. But a new era is possible. We can do it,” to inspire you. If you want more, you can read...
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August 28, 2020
Most fossil fuel energy is wasted–New analysis shows how to fix this!
With catastrophic fires again raging in California and hurricane Laura devastating the Gulf Coast, the urgency of the climate crisis is painfully clear. You may wonder if it’s too late to do anything meaningful to avert climate chaos. A new analysis finds we can still eliminate 70-80%...
Solutions & Inspiration
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June 23, 2020
Plunging renewable energy prices mean U.S. can hit 90% clean electricity by 2035–at no extra cost
Silvio Marcacci – Forbes, June 9, 2020 Renewable energy has been considered too expensive and too unreliable to power our grid, but new research has overturned that trope for good. Plummeting wind, solar, and storage prices have fallen so fast that the United States can...
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June 11, 2020
How South Korea, France and Italy are using the COVID-19 response to fight climate change
Umair Irfan – Vox, 6/8/20 With clear roads, clear skies, oil prices plummeting, businesses needing bailouts, and political capital to spend, countries like South Korea, Italy, and France have decided that the pandemic response is an opportunity to rethink energy, infrastructure, industry, and government in...
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May 21, 2020
Solar’s future is insanely cheap
Ramez Naam – Blog, 5/14/20 Over the past decade, Ramez Naam has made forecasts about the future costs of clean energy technologies, including solar. In this post, he explains that Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including he – predicted…