One hard-hit community measures its own air quality
A lack of trust means this group is setting up their own air monitor data downwind of Colorado's last refinery
The heat pumps are coming! (Well, eventually)
The long journey to lower-carbon polluting homes
An airport solar plan, the state that hates EVs and keeping tabs on clean energy funding
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Reading Generation Dread, at your own pace
A new benefit for paid newsletter members
This is not about gas stoves
Just the pipes that help them work
How Michigan residents are talking about their utility's climate plan
When will the state's largest utility shut down its heavily-polluting coal plant?
A quiet, local climate disaster
Electric cars in the U.S. had a banner year in 2021, doubling the number sold from the year before. But in early November 2022, an unrelated, largely...
Resource of the Month: A ranking of each country's emitters
Thanks for being a member and welcome to this month’s bonus newsletter. This edition looks at one of the more comprehensive maps of sources of planet-warming...
Electrifying in a 100-year-old neighborhood
Plus: An electric car share in the Midwest and a Louisiana election surprise.
Different ways to avoid food waste, Hawai'i's changing how they charge for electricity
Plus: Breaking old ground for chesnut trees, and a coal plant becomes a battery
Boston behind, retrofitting NYC schools and the city with 30 projects at once
What's caught your eye this year?
Resource of the Month: Talking to kids about climate change
They may have a lot to teach *you*
What did the midterms mean for state and local climate action?
From Arizona to Michigan to Houston.
Q&A: North America's backyard tropical fruit
It's somewhere between a mango and a banana, and for one writer, its a bit of joy when it comes to food
The big (electric) bus story
Plus: Your questions answered
Special Edition: Climate Election Links
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Resource of the Month: Zero Cities, Part Two
A beginner’s guide to understanding – and acting on – your city’s emissions pledge
Which fossil fuel coalition group is advertising to you this election season?
I too can use Canva
The most important state election for climate
Dockets rule everything around me
Q&A edition: Planning buildings in a climate emergency
(Ann Arbor Midnight Madness 2017 by Vanseka Photography on Flickr) A few weeks ago I wrote about Ann Arbor’s planning commission’s frustration over a much-...
Resource of the Month: Zero Cities
A beginner’s guide to understanding – and acting on – your city’s emissions pledge
The EV learning curve
A guide for the curious and the confused
Who gets the energy transition first?
Or: the time I caught a gas leak in a house for sale.
Unsightly landfill? Put some solar on it.
As the little girl says: Por qué no los dos?
Resource of the Month: What's your state's climate policy?
Thanks for being a paid subscriber! This month's bonus email is about one of the most reader-friendly state policy maps I've seen. The resource: Climate...
The long, fast fight
A brief hiatus The Planet You Save has been regularly publishing for nearly a year, and it’s time for a temporary break to rest and think through what's...
Georgia has EVs and climate bills on its mind
(Butler Solar Facility in Butler, GA by Neil Wellons on Flickr) “It’s like they wrote this for Georgia" So says Marilyn Brown, a public policy professor at...
Resource of the Month: Is this heat wave climate related?
A map to check in on global warming's impact on your weather
The rumblings against fossil companies in the ad world
A Q&A with a reporter covering advertising's messy relationship with climate change
Should public pensions get out of fossil fuels?
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own, your weekly newsletter on local and state climate action. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and I am now a person...
What does it actually take to get an oil or gas company shut down?
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own, your weekly newsletter about local and state climate action. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and I get very...
Pipeline companies are advertising gas with sunny mountains
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and summer completely snuck up on me. (Screenshot of a Natural Allies digital ad)...
The loophole I can't believe I missed
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and here is just one sign of summer. (A vineyard in Napa County with a solar panel...
Resource of the Month: The ClimateVenn
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This restaurant is trash
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Lightning round, with hopefully less wildfire
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own, a weekly newsletter on local and state climate action. I’m Taylor Kate Brown. I've been traveling for...
Hear from a climate emergency reporter
Welcome back to The Planet You Save, a weekly newsletter on local and state climate action. I'm Taylor Kate Brown, and I'm watching New York's legislature...
Resource of the Month: TILclimate
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Why does my county want to ask me what to do about sea level rise?
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What if you could say your town's climate policy saved lives?
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How to spend $100 million on EV chargers
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Ghostwriting gas companies, how EVs became 'normal' and free rides during bad air quality
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The young Montanans suing over own state's (lack of) climate policy
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own, your weekly local climate change newsletter. I'm Taylor Kate Brown. (Near Harrison, Montana by Kerry on...
Resource of the Month: So you're thinking about buying an EV....
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When you start fires to prevent fires
Welcome back to The Planet You Save, your weekly newsletter on local climate action. Today is an extra-special edition: I'm partnering with another writer to...
What your neighbors think about climate change
Welcome back to The Planet You Save, your weekly newsletter on local climate action. I’m Taylor Kate Brown and today, we’ve got maps. (Before we jump in, a...
A worldwide game of hot potato
Welcome back to The Planet You Save, your weekly newsletter on local climate action. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and this week we're back in an East Coast state....
Do we still need to pay people to put solar on their roofs?
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Resource of the Month: What fossil fuels are in your retirement accounts?
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This state has lofty emissions goals for buildings — is a commission the right choice?
Welcome back to The Planet You Save May Be Your Own. I'm Taylor Kate Brown and this week we're looking at where one state is in their attempt to get fossil...