Bill McKibben+

From Bad to Better

The arc of the physical universe bends towards heat, but maybe we can bend it back

A human environmentalism

Slightly weird edition with some thoughts on the AI moment

Reform or Regression?

A hard calculation at a hard moment

Amazon Crime

And Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars

A Sunny Week in New York

At least in certain ways

Hold my (warm) beer

It’s Existential Crises Week!

The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation

Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?

Facts on the ground

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)

Two Men

One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk

So, Naomi Klein live today

And with Ayana Johnson!

The growing rumble

Politics--alas--is what we need

Reality intrudes

We can’t actually keep on like this

A year in, the data center/AI battle starts to clarify

And the anger is profound

Fun with numbers

A datacenter is an oil well, and other insights

Take Five

The Crucial Years at the halfway point

High Heat, High Drama

Europe is starting to provide some answers about the next step in the climate fight

Bloated and Gassy

Trump's...energy policy, and what it's going to cost us all

Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be

MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity

Setting money on fire

(Also the planet)

Tour de Planet

Are bikes DEI, or are they a miracle? (Or both?)

Oil as Achilles Heel

Lessons for leaders from the conflagration in Omsk

"You're paying the bills, buddy."

Princeton, BP, and a sad but extremely revealing chapter in the climate fight

And so "climate" returns

The next--and most important--cycle in a long-running battle

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

The latest on energy, climate and affordability

Now where?

The world has turned a corner, offering a new and improved view

On the flow of money, and of time

Earth's most important climate denier dies at 87

The Biggish Picture

Trying to imagine a working world

Scilencing

The Trump Administration would just as soon we didn't know stuff, especially about our planet

Just my imagination

Driving away with me

A Question of Margin

And there's so very little.

Everyone Knows It's Windy

A Breezy Rant

Uncanny Speed

In both directions

A Hinge Moment on Planet Earth

(And some politicians are just standing in the door)

Let's TALK climate

Loud, clear. No more hushing.

Big Oil Breaks Everything

The planet, our democracy, our courts...

We're in for some heavy weather

This spring, this year, and this eon

Clean energy needs actual champions

Two very different gubernatorial races--and a smashing victory last night in Arizona--drive home the point.

Oil and Gas=Peril and Poverty/ Solar and Wind=Prosperity and Protection

2026 has changed the psychological meaning of energy forever

Night Into Day

The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

A Time to Rise

In anger, in hope, in whatever gets you out the door on Saturday!

Now comes the heat

Add it to the war, and maybe we have a teachable moment

A dark and killing cloud over Tehran

And over a shamed America

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet

Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

My native intelligence considers AI data centers

Yes, they're fast, and yes it's time to slow the heck down

An El Niño is brewing

And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

Notes on winter

When the world turns whimsical

Thinking about lying

Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness

Time for some courage in the climate fight too

Big business, and its political enablers, have turned tail. They need to take a page from the resistance

We interrupt the madness for a note from the rational world

And an encouraging one, at that!