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What cities & states can do now on climate
December 12, 2024
There's no shortage of efforts in the works
What should we do instead?
November 18, 2024
Imagination and communication needed for coal communities.
A community counting on a 'miracle' to keep their power plant open
October 22, 2024
Investigating a unproven plan for an old power plant
How do we deal with this heat?
July 18, 2024
How one city treats heatwaves like hurricanes; plus an emissions-free ferry and reuse stories
Do I have to worry about my cooking oil too?!?
May 22, 2024
Behind the scenes on my 'sustainable cooking oils' explainer for Bon Appétit.
The start of something new
April 11, 2024
Let's not bury the lede: this is no longer a weekly newsletter. Let me explain why
Ebikes, energy costs and funds to get funds
March 14, 2024
A round up of recent stories, plus a guessing game on what local electricity supply actually looks like
Little renewables everywhere
March 7, 2024
What's the value of small and sometimes wacky energy projects?
An Alaska story, in audio
$ · February 22, 2024
*Listen* to this story
The end of new drilling in Colorado?
February 15, 2024
Plus: A tale a two states' renewable policies.
Navigating the 'golden era of secondhand shopping'
February 8, 2024
An interview with a former fast fashion buyer on the fashion industry and secondhand shopping.
The big fossil fuel 'battery' beneath our feet
February 1, 2024
Plus: Lots more local climate stories inside.
The big methane hunt
$ · January 25, 2024
Why there's a lot of new activity around an invisible gas
We're gonna need a different way to pay for roads
January 18, 2024
Plus: Who put this solar farm in my coal plant?
Why one state is punching above its weight on EV chargers
January 11, 2024
How good is EV charging right now? Let's take a look at one indicator.
The town where tourism is helping electrify home heating
January 4, 2024
Turning visitors to nature into heat pumps
Splitting my year
$ · December 29, 2023
(This slug, crossing my front path slowly but successfully in May, feels like a metaphor for this year) This was the second full year of freelancing for me,...
What I saw in local climate news this year
December 14, 2023
I beg of you, focus on your headlines.
Lessons in free transit, rural style
December 7, 2023
What happens when you make transit free in a town known for long commutes?
DC's big solar goal and heat pump slowness in RI
$ · November 30, 2023
It's messy, but it's what we've got.
Where we're at, where we could be going
November 16, 2023
Plus: Solar panels on canals, "hellish" green jobs and who's getting grants
‘A new set of possibilities’
November 9, 2023
Responding to climate change isn’t sacrifice, but ‘leveling up’, author Deb Chachra says
A journey to the local food forest
$ · October 26, 2023
Seasons, cities and looking a bit harder.
You get a hydrogen hub, and you get a hydrogen hub...
October 19, 2023
... and uh, you do not.
The 'pain-in-the-butt' problem at the heart of reuse
October 12, 2023
Plus: Oil and gas jobs not going to locals, Massachusetts' forest solar problem and a rare advocate-utility love fest.
What story should I do next?
$ · September 28, 2023
A peek behind the curtain for paid members.
California's outsized climate power — an exception or a guide?
September 21, 2023
How many countries in this country?
Why I don't like "clean energy"
September 14, 2023
Am I being *too particular*?
'Transit can't do it by itself'
September 7, 2023
Does free transit mean less carbon pollution?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of a less warmer world
$ · August 31, 2023
Thanks again for being a paid member of The Planet You Save May Be Your Own — and welcome to the new readers who signed up recently. You make it possible to...
Why flood maps don't tell the full story
August 10, 2023
Plus: One utility dumps a gas lobbying outfit — but not gas.
An earlier coal retirement for one of America's most polluting plants
August 3, 2023
Plus: A rule that isn't a rule and a Chicago test plan for energy efficiency
How does this make any sense?
$ · July 27, 2023
A behind-the-scenes of how one story got made
They're 'sticking to skiing' by lobbying on climate
July 20, 2023
"The thing we need to do to stay in business is work on climate at scale."
What states have the most "clean" jobs?
July 13, 2023
Shout out to the woman installing solar panels on my street this week.
The (indoor) farm in your city backyard
July 6, 2023
(Salad) greens for days. Plus stories from Detroit, New England and renewable energy is actually a very old story in the US
The summer of disaster is back
June 29, 2023
Lawsuits and a very blunt lobbyist.
Coming back to it
$ · June 22, 2023
Have you missed me? The Planet You Save took an unplanned hiatus because of other work. But I wanted to make sure members got at least one dispatch. This...
The real reason I hate climate change
$ · May 25, 2023
Your local vampires are sticking around longer
Six months later at a climate disaster
May 18, 2023
Remember the massive methane gas leak from a storage site in Pennsylvania last year? The one Bloomberg Green called the worst US climate disaster in 2022?...
My own climate home makeover plan
May 11, 2023
A climate reporter turns to her own house.
Electrify everything (in my house)
May 4, 2023
Your neighbor may have better info than Google
A fishy business deal
$ · April 28, 2023
Thanks for being a paid member and making The Planet You Save newsletter happen each week. I know it's not Thursday, but travel this week has rearranged my...
Recruiting female electricians and big refinery questions
April 20, 2023
Climate action stories in Montana, Philly and Colorado
How banks made the US Gulf Coast a fossil fuel export hub
April 13, 2023
Banks are funding green energy, but nowhere near the amount needed.
California’s gas price-gouging bill is all about Big (Oil) Data
April 6, 2023
But not everyone is going to be able to see it
Reading from the warming Arctic
$ · March 23, 2023
Thanks for being a paid member and making The Planet You Save newsletter happen each week. This month’s members reading club selection is the first chapter...
The incentives driving more solar onto the town dump
March 16, 2023
Programming note: Next week will be a special email for The Planet You Save members about our latest selection in our low-impact reading club — get it by...
Interested, Frustrated, Hopeful, Sad
March 9, 2023
The Planet You Save newsletter is possible in the first place because of paid members. Get a special monthly edition, access to digital resources and our...
Solar at the extremes
March 2, 2023
Alaska's largest solar array will also be a research site for adding agriculture
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