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This week: Sunlight now converts plastic waste into hydrogen and clean fuels.
Uruguay is turning dairy biogas into sustainable jet fuel with light-driven catalysts.
A new financing framework maps how to fund Africa's just energy transition with concessional capital.
Solutions moving from lab to scale.
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Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Paths in Motion May light feels generous. In the north, swallows practice their quick handwriting across the evening sky, while in the south, cool seas comb the shores with ribbons of kelp. It is a good week to notice how many solutions now move like that, alive and in motion.

Indiegraf acquires News Revenue Hub's donation management tool RevEngine, its third acquisition in three months after Hearken and Stylebot (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/indiegraf-newsroom-acquires-revengi…

As funding dollars dwindle, newsroom tech companies are heeding the call for consolidation - Poynter
Indiegraf, known for its content management system, has made acquisitions a part of its strategy to help promote newsroom independence

This week: Solar storage hits $54/MWh, making clean dispatchable power cost-competitive with fossil peakers.
Fervo plans a $6.5B IPO to scale geothermal that delivers 24/7 clean energy.
Australian researchers use AI robotics to recover silicon wafers from old solar panels, cutting manufacturing costs.
Real progress, happening now.
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Paths in Motion May light feels generous. In the north, swallows practice their quick handwriting across the evening sky, while in the south, cool seas comb the shores with ribbons of kelp. It is a good week to notice how many solutions now move like that, alive and in motion.

Of course #Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz bought 640 acres of the land to be used for the humongous Box Elder county data center a year ago for an undisclosed price.
#utpol #AI

The Call Is Coming From Inside The Statehouse
New public records show a company owned by Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz owns roughly 640 acres near the proposed Stratos Project boundary.

Call For Papers for an International Conference Georgian Jewry across Two Homelands: History, Heritage, and Identity
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 31 May - 7 June H-Net Job Guide 06/09/2026 - 2:39pm …
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I went out for a very late lunchtime walk yesterday and ended up talking to the elderly woman across the alley for a little while. She asked me what my thoughts were on AI and then she gave her thoughts (mostly they were about how AI keeps trying to call her to buy her house cheap and data centers should have solar on the roof) and I started to wonder if this was how old people talked about the internet around 2002?
... and yeah, I suggested something like Incogni to her for the calls.

Donald Trump is using wartime presidential authority to hand
$700m to coal-fired power plants in the US,
the latest move by the president to bolster what he called
“clean, beautiful coal”,
despite it being the dirtiest of fossil fuels.
Trump is using the
Defense Production Act,
a cold war-era statute used to accelerate American industrial output in times of national need,
to provide grants to more than a dozen existing coal plants across the US…

I'd been idly thinking about trying to use a "cheap yellow display" to make a simple device to control a QRP Labs QMX over CAT control. Recently both N6HAN Han and OZ1LAV Steffen have written cool applications for the M5Stack Tab5 (kind of a superset of a typical CYD) for this purpose.
I'm interested in it as a panadapter for doing CW, and for easy frequency entry on a keypad.
Steffan recently added FT8, so out of curiosity I tried decoding some FT8 with wires thrown across the f…

Then the hard labour part - dragged some old railway sleepers across the patio, as I’m going to make a raised bed with those in the near future. NOW, I have got a mug of coffee and can chill at the computer for a while.

Call For Papers for an International Conference Georgian Jewry across Two Homelands: History, Heritage, and Identity
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Diplo: 31 May - 7 June H-Net Job Guide 06/09/2026 - 2:39pm …
via Input 4 RELCFP