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Small actions are adding up this week.
Three home energy providers offered 17 GW of virtual power plant capacity to U.S. utilities, cutting costs by linking home batteries.
Kenya launched a national plan to restore mangroves and seagrasses through 2035.
A community forest project in the DRC slowed deforestation while supporting displaced families.
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Welcome It is a good week to notice how small actions add up. Many small actions, aligned, create something bigger. They are easier to see when we pause and look. Here are the ones we are watching now. Top Climate Solutions Of The Week From home batteries to coastal ecosystems,

it’s not by accident that California coastal habitats are aggressively protected and most of the shoreline is free of mega resorts and architectural clutter.
A half-century ago, Californians rose up against the threat of
over-development.
By the will of the people, the coast was enshrined in state law as a precious public asset accessible to the many, not a private playground fenced off for the few.
Californians rallied to save the coast 50 years ago. Trump is spoili…

Californians rallied to save the coast 50 years ago. Trump is spoiling the celebration
The Trump administration, thirsty for offshore oil, has ordered a review of California's coastal management.

True to the promise of
“drill, baby, drill,”
leaders in Washington are doubling down on attacks
against Alaska’s wildlands
and the clean water, wildlife and ways of life they sustain.
Here’s how the administration is advancing drilling and mining attacks on public lands:
->> Opened every acre of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s fragile coastal plain  to oil and gas leasing
->> Approved and reissued permits to move forward on the cont…

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Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

I've been goofing off from my usual Winter unemployment to get some warmth along the East coast of Australia.

Rant ahoy!!
I stumbled onto the Wikipedia article about foundational psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. I'd forgotten how angry this trash scam practice of woo-woo muckspreader firehose insanity makes me. It's not so much that someone's built a huge castle in the air, because there's a place for fantasy and worldbuilding and daydreams; that's where we get much of our culture from, after all. It's the waste of time and money, and the unaddressed or exacerbated human misery it represents. It's the duplicitous and meritricious posing as being in some way scientific, or reality-based. Psychoanalysts belong in the same circle of hell as mediums who claim to be in contact with people's deceased love ones, or selling colloidal silver as a cure for cancer. Preying on vulnerable people with snake oil, hokum, religious cults and all the other ways the simple-minded are exploited boils my piss. The apparent fact that most of them sincerely believe their garbage doesn't ameliorate their guilt in my book.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Jean Sibelius, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Nicholas Collon:
🎵 Suite from "Pelléas et Mélisande", Op. 46: I. At the Castle Gate
#JeanSibelius #NicholasCollon
https://open.spotify.com/track/2waaBWhpjXRlOSthZuymQR