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SilverLining’s Geoengineering Techno-Optimism Is Distracting From Real Climate Solutions

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Organizations promoting utopian techno-optimism have long appealed to policymakers and investors by offering simplistic technological escapes from complex environmental challenges. SilverLining, a geoengineering-focused non-profit, represents exactly this kind of appeal. It’s triggered me because of its aggressive PR efforts that have put its founder on influential media outlets, including ones … [continued]

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Musk Visits With The Saudis — With US Citizens’ Private Data In His Pocket

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Elon Musk was part of the Trump coterie who flew to meet with the Saudis this week. The planned series of forums and spectacles was a way for Musk, who runs his own artificial intelligence (AI) company, xAI, to position himself within fierce peer competition for funding from the Saudis. … [continued]

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America Closed For Business: Bill Rolling Back IRA Provisions Will Slash Investment

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), enacted in 2022, marked a seismic shift in U.S. industrial and energy policy, promising clarity and stability to a previously fragmented clean energy landscape. It introduced comprehensive, decade-spanning incentives designed to catalyze investments across renewables, hydrogen hubs, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing. Almost immediately, this … [continued]

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From Backyards To Balconies: The New Face Of Solar Power With Bright Saver

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Bright Saver, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, is helping to reimagine how people access solar power, especially those who’ve been shut out of traditional solar systems. Instead of a large rooftop array of solar panels and complicated permits, the company is offering an affordable, plug-in solar solution that can work for … [continued]

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More And More Questions Arise About The Supposed Efficiency Goals Of Musk’s DOGE

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Musk’s DOGE (“Department of Government Efficiency”) really has it all wrong. This group of non-federal employees insists that government waste is strangling the US economy, but the redistribution of funds isn’t actually making the US federal government more efficient — it’s benefiting the über wealthy with their insatiable appetite for … [continued]

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