I've been unusually quiet, here - just wanted to let you all know what's going on. This is my last week at Grist, next week I start full time as a trainee electrician.
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Nathanael Johnson
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Ex- climate wonk, current (eh?) electrical trainee. Writer of books. Father of daughters. Shanker of frisbees. @ me for email.
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Vaccine skepticism used to be nonpartisan. Over the course of the pandemic it has pushed right and become more abhorrent to Democrats
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He was a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist back when people used to publish this stuff too — the tent just used to be bigger.
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear safety glasses. Seriously though, if this is heroism it’s a very accessible and democratic version. Water’s fine!
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Nate Johnson (aka @SavorTooth) is one of my personal heroes. I remain so inspired by his transformation from @grist journalist to electrician who is rewiring the future
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Honestly, you couldn't make this stuff up
Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine
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Deep squats at CAISO
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California's famous duck curve, updated for 2023. CAISO now routinely flirts with near-zero net loads on the sunniest spring days.
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Anti-GMO activists have managed to convince the Philippines supreme court to block the release of Bt eggplant and Golden Rice. The former reduces pesticides, the latter stops kids going blind from Vit A deficiency. This is a travesty of justice and a victory for misinformation.
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Very heartened to see this from who I’ve always thought of as an environmentalist of the “stop things” school. There’s hope!
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1/The greatest challenge of our time is constructing a decarbonized economy. Passage of the IRA will spur a building boom not seen since the New Deal. But, @billmckibben writes in our cover story, success requires a paradigm shift on the left. #EarthWeek motherjones.com/environment/20
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I only know the names of a couple of these. Can anyone help me name these flowers?
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The Carrizo Plain is really putting on a show, ablaze with color from the hills to Soda Lake.
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In a new article in , I document everything current research tells us about the impacts of upzonings & downzonings on housing production, housing prices, and demographics.
I review dozens of scholarly articles & offer a broad view on research ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08
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Junk food, alcoholism, sedentary lifestyles, cars, drugs and guns:
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The term “birds” here does more to obscure than to clarify. What kind of birds? How large are their populations? What is their reproductive rate? These are what matter.
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Cats 
kill 1.85 billion birds 
every year in the #US
But no calls for cats to be banned
Buildings 
kill 675 million birds
Vehicles 
214 million birds
We poison 
72 million birds
Wind turbines kill just 328,000 and #climatechange deniers want to ban them!
kill 1.85 billion birds every year in the #US
But no calls for cats to be banned
Buildings kill 675 million birds
Vehicles 214 million birds
We poison 72 million birds
Wind turbines kill just 328,000 and #climatechange deniers want to ban them!
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I don't know what I did to make David Wolfe block me but it must have been something good.
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Some conspiracy theorists could be gifted a window seat on the International Space Station and still believe the earth is flat and the moon is made of cheese.
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Water as far as the eye can see on the Yolo Bypass this morning. Hard to fathom what the valley must have looked like before dams and levees #CAwater
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Excited to talk to my friend and colleague tomorrow about her deeply reported project on Black rural maternal health outcomes, and how the state’s certificate of need program keeps up a status quo.
Join us tomorrow on Twitter at 11 a.m!!!!
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This is why Tulare Lake (before it was eliminated to create farms in Kern County) was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. And why the San Joaquin Valley once had a wealth of groundwater (before it was pumped out to irrigate those farms).
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To the end Larry Householder proclaimed his innocence. A jury judge found him guilty and he now faces serious jail time
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Months before arrests began in the federal House Bill 6 corruption investigation in Ohio, I found the first proof of FirstEnergy Solutions funding of a murky group aligned with Larry Householder. broke the news in + eyeonohio.com/dark_money_hb6/
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BREAKING: Former OH House Speaker Larry Householder has been found GUILTY in the $61M bribery scheme.
Former OH GOP Leader Matt Borges also found GUILTY.
They each face up to 20 years, + LH's potential perjury charge.
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You don't love New York pizza
You love walkable cities with mixed-use zoning
You don't love Brooklyn brownstones
You love walkable cities with mixed-use zoning
You don't love NYC fashion
You love walkable cities with mixed-use zoning
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this is unfortunately very badly argued and substantially wrong
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There are many good summaries of the research on the causes of homelessness and they all say the same thing: The main cause of homelessness is high housing costs.
Here is another. Recommended.
NIMBYs don’t realise the harm they cause.
noahpinion.substack.com/p/everything-y
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I came to laugh at these but they are actually great. And I also laughed at them
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Comment below, IN ALL CAPS, a 'psychedelic mantra' - a word or phrase that came up repeatedly during a psychedelic experience - that you've had before.
One mantra at a time, ALL CAPS, no explanation.
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Is there anyone in earshot interested in doing some editing work?
It's for a (very cool) dancer's website/blog. She just needs a reader - a second set of eyes to gut check things. In short: an editor. Light work, but probably light pay.
DM me your email if you are interested.
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Yikes to the possibility of monster California snow pack plus warm spring rain.
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Matthew, If this model verifies, I am concerned that we could see a repeat of the Christmas flood of 1964 when we had a significant snowpack followed by a subtropical tap (atmospheric river) that created copious amounts of rainfall at higher elevations that melted much of the… twitter.com/KSL_Matt/statu…
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Even before graduation— there was a memorial photo every few pages of my high school yearbook. All cars
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Went to my 20 year high school reunion tonight. You know what was most striking? How many people from our class have died because of cars.
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But I couldn’t bear another spring of brown so I pulled out the weed cloth and scattered seeds. They are coming up! Also pictured: some annuals and the bird of paradise that somehow survived being cut down and covered for more than a year. Updates TK
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My yard has been covered in weed cloth and wood chips for a year (first picture). I’m planning on doing some work on the house, which means anything I plant will get trampled. S
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Copper is critical to the future of global energy systems.
For the , we discuss supply chains and the impact of conflict.
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Why does this remind me of the Republican Party?
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When a group of army ants are separated from the main foraging party, they lose the pheromone track & begin to follow one another: as a result, they might eventually die of exhaustion
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Join @grist TOMORROW at 2pm ET for a live discussion on the "electrify everything" movement, and the surprising workforce bottleneck standing in its way. Featuring panelists @emilypont, @SavorTooth, @IRECUSA's Janell Hills, and @GRID's Adewale OgunBadejo. eventbrite.com/e/how-can-we-b
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this is Dawn, a seemingly genial pig that I, despite being a vegetarian, recently ate*
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Do other countries see this trend? What could turn it around?
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US construction productivity has FALLEN for 6 decades 
The technical term is a dumpster fire.
From @Austan_Goolsbee and Syverson
The technical term is a dumpster fire.
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Transitioning homes to an electrical grid is going to take a ton of skilled labor, but there’s a shortage of people trained to do the job. found that in California, there is roughly 1 certified electrician qualified to work on homes to every 478 housing units. 1/3
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Burning Man going to extraordinary lengths to try to block an important renewable energy project.
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The nonprofit behind the Burning Man -- which builds a temporary city of 80,000 people in the Nevada desert every year -- is suing the federal government over its approval of a geothermal energy project, citing the potential environmental harm: nevadacurrent.com/2023/01/10/bur
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Excited to share this feature on the workforce shortage that could hold back climate action. grist.org/energy/electri
You can also listen to the podcast version that and I produced for ! link.chtbl.com/Amvt8JBz
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