Agent of the free. Helping climate champions navigate the media landscape with @climatecivics. Views are mine alone.
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Jun 4
If you make residents pay for the additional power data centers need and use up their water, people get mad.
Before we fill the landscape with data centers, maybe we should hit pause and see how the AI bubble plays out. More in my latest Substack.
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May 21
The recent decision by the Supreme Court to further gut the Voting Rights Act was the last straw for me. I make the case for expanding the court in my latest Substack.
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May 20
Holy shit! "Credit where credit is due"? Like credit for starting an unnecessary war that is tanking the global economy? Like credit for looting the U.S. Treasury? Credit for deporting the workers who harvest our food and build our homes? You gotta be shittin' me.
May 20
Bezos on Trump: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term. Trump has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."
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May 13
With all the noise in the news lately, folks may have missed this encouraging development.
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Mar 23
If we phase out fossil fuels, it won't matter what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. Check out my latest Substack post.
@Enviro_Voter @CCLUSA #ClimateChange #IranWar #Solar #Wind
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Feb 12
.@LFFriedman, excellent piece on the endangerment finding being gutted today. Glad you mentioned that Zeldin was a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.
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Jan 31
In a world filled with cruel and malevolent people of power, it's important to hold up the heroes who spent their lives making the world a better place. Bill Foege was one of them.
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Jan 12
Overlooked in the current chaos is the destruction of our #climate by the Trump administration. Kudos to the @nytimes for this front-page story about the wrecking ball being taken to efforts to preserve a livable world.
nytimes.com/2026/01/12/clima…
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Jan 7
As a retired journalist, I was horrified when the #WashingtonPost praised Trump for his illegal action in #Venezuela. Media capitulators are not worthy of the Fourth Estate.
More in my latest Substack...
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24 Dec 2025
One big problem in solving #ClimateChange has been that people who identify as environmentalists are, by and large, not showing up at the polls. The Environmental Voter Project is fixing that.
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12 Dec 2025
Want to see your city become more bike friendly? I look at the infrastructure improvements needed and how these can get done in my latest "Problem Solved" Substack post.
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26 Nov 2025
#COP30 was a disappointment again. To get serious about lowering heat-trapping emissions, we need an effective price on carbon to phase out fossil fuels. There's a group doing great work on that front.
#ClimateChange @citizensclimate @SenWhitehouse
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5 Nov 2025
Here's an easy fix to have fewer people relying on SNAP to eat: RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE! Find out more in my latest Substack post.
#SNAP #MinimumWage #Shutdown
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27 Oct 2025
My piece on getting big money out of politics was published in The Fulcrum. Check it out. Unless we pass a constitutional amendment to undo the harm of Citizens United, we will be living in an oligarchy, ruled by billionaire overlords.
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21 Oct 2025
As a kid, if I brought 5 bottles to the store to redeem the deposit, I could buy a pack of baseball cards. The most effective solution to plastic waste is to stop putting things in single-use containers. This week's "Problem Solved" looks at reusables.
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17 Oct 2025
Want to take down the oligarchy? First step is to get big money out of politics. Learn how we can do that in my latest "Problem Solved" Substack post.
#Billionaires #Congress #CampaignReform #CitzensUnited
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6 Oct 2025
The US was once a leader on global health, but #Trump is dismantling that legacy. Citizens can use their voices to restore funding for life-saving programs. The latest from my "Problem Solved" Substack.
#ForeignAid #Unicef #USAID
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