Volts community thread #18
Open to all free & paid subscribers.
David’s Notes
1. 🎤 We’ve got two excellent live events coming up! As always, we’ve set aside a handful of free tickets for paid subscribers. Register your interest via this form; you’ll hear from Sam in the next few days if you’ve won tickets!
The first is here in Seattle. On May 20, at the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub (the same place I did the Climate Papa podcast), I’ll interview Jigar Shah on stage about the difficulties Washington state is facing in financing its ambitious climate policies. Volts listeners know that Jigar — formerly of DOE’s Loan Programs Office — is always entertaining and provocative. Come down and join us!
The second is a big Canary Media event in Washington DC on June 4. There will be all kinds of interesting interviews and panels (click the link), culminating with me interviewing … a guest who has not yet confirmed. (Stay tuned!)
I’ll be in DC that whole first week of June, so even if you can’t come to the event, hit me up and we’ll get coffee.
2. 📬 It’s a mailbag month — leave your questions below! 📬
📌 A reminder that paid subs can listen to full episodes of bonus content via the Substack website/app or by sending them to their preferred podcast player using these instructions.
3. 🏠 Subscriber Jeff dug up a decade-old piece I wrote for Vox:
I love that piece — it’s one of my favorite things I ever wrote, not so much because it’s brilliant prose or anything, but because it’s an important and overlooked issue. It was especially overlooked in 2015, but even in the decade since, as housing and loneliness have both become big topics in mainstream discourse, the overlap of the two remains under-explored.
4. 🔫 I feel quite confident that subscribers do not come to Volts for my thoughts on Star Wars. Indeed, it could be argued that the last thing the internet needs is more opinions on Star Wars! Nonetheless, I have some of those opinions, and since SW has been much in the discourse lately (Andor is just as good as people say), I decided to put them down in a thread, once and for all. It’s mostly about SW but also applies, I think, to a great deal of what currently passes as popular entertainment, and to modernity generally. It has kicked up all kinds of interesting feedback & discussion, so if you’re into that kind thing, follow along:
5. ✅ Community comment of the month: An aside from Roy that he knew I couldn’t resist. Small modular nuclear reactors remain, to date, neither small, nor modular, nor affordable.
Monthly Thread — How It Works
This is your monthly opportunity to share! Use the comments section in this community thread to:
CLIMATE JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES: Share climate jobs/opportunities
SHARE WORK, ASK FOR HELP, FIND COLLABORATORS: Share your climate-related work, ask for help, or find collaborators
CLIMATE EVENTS & MEETUPS: Share climate-related events and meetups
EVERYTHING ELSE: Discuss David’s Notes or anything else climate-related
MAILBAG QUESTIONS: Ask a question for this month’s mailbag episode (anyone can ask a question but mailbags are a paid-sub-only perk). Volts has a form for those who are shy, but David prioritizes questions posted in this thread.
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