What should we do instead?
Imagination and communication needed for coal communities.
A community counting on a 'miracle' to keep their power plant open
Investigating a unproven plan for an old power plant
How do we deal with this heat?
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?!?
Behind the scenes on my 'sustainable cooking oils' explainer for Bon Appétit.
The start of something new
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
A round up of recent stories, plus a guessing game on what local electricity supply actually looks like
Little renewables everywhere
What's the value of small and sometimes wacky energy projects?
An Alaska story, in audio
*Listen* to this story
The end of new drilling in Colorado?
Plus: A tale a two states' renewable policies.
Navigating the 'golden era of secondhand shopping'
An interview with a former fast fashion buyer on the fashion industry and secondhand shopping.
The big fossil fuel 'battery' beneath our feet
Plus: Lots more local climate stories inside.
The big methane hunt
Why there's a lot of new activity around an invisible gas
We're gonna need a different way to pay for roads
Plus: Who put this solar farm in my coal plant?
Why one state is punching above its weight on EV chargers
How good is EV charging right now? Let's take a look at one indicator.
The town where tourism is helping electrify home heating
Turning visitors to nature into heat pumps
Splitting my year
(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
I beg of you, focus on your headlines.
Lessons in free transit, rural style
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
It's messy, but it's what we've got.
Where we're at, where we could be going
Plus: Solar panels on canals, "hellish" green jobs and who's getting grants
‘A new set of possibilities’
Responding to climate change isn’t sacrifice, but ‘leveling up’, author Deb Chachra says
A journey to the local food forest
Seasons, cities and looking a bit harder.
You get a hydrogen hub, and you get a hydrogen hub...
... and uh, you do not.
The 'pain-in-the-butt' problem at the heart of reuse
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?
A peek behind the curtain for paid members.
California's outsized climate power — an exception or a guide?
How many countries in this country?
Why I don't like "clean energy"
Am I being *too particular*?
'Transit can't do it by itself'
Does free transit mean less carbon pollution?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of a less warmer world
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Why flood maps don't tell the full story
Plus: One utility dumps a gas lobbying outfit — but not gas.
An earlier coal retirement for one of America's most polluting plants
Plus: A rule that isn't a rule and a Chicago test plan for energy efficiency
How does this make any sense?
A behind-the-scenes of how one story got made
They're 'sticking to skiing' by lobbying on climate
"The thing we need to do to stay in business is work on climate at scale."
What states have the most "clean" jobs?
Shout out to the woman installing solar panels on my street this week.
The (indoor) farm in your city backyard
(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
Lawsuits and a very blunt lobbyist.
Coming back to it
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
Your local vampires are sticking around longer
Six months later at a climate disaster
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
A climate reporter turns to her own house.
Electrify everything (in my house)
Your neighbor may have better info than Google
A fishy business deal
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Recruiting female electricians and big refinery questions
Climate action stories in Montana, Philly and Colorado
How banks made the US Gulf Coast a fossil fuel export hub
Banks are funding green energy, but nowhere near the amount needed.
California’s gas price-gouging bill is all about Big (Oil) Data
But not everyone is going to be able to see it
Reading from the warming Arctic
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The incentives driving more solar onto the town dump
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Interested, Frustrated, Hopeful, Sad
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Solar at the extremes
Alaska's largest solar array will also be a research site for adding agriculture
The World As She Knew It
Thanks for being a paid member and making The Planet You Save newsletter happen each week. This month’s members reading club selection is a short essay by...