Volts community thread #22
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David’s Notes
1. 😰 Climate Week NYC is next week and I am cruising into full panic-attack mode. I have two pods to record this week and then I am conducting no less than five, yes, five interviews on stage over the course of the three days I will be in NYC. Seven interviews in two weeks? Cool cool cool. A sane thing to do to oneself.
Sam sent confirmation emails to the vast majority of paid subscribers who requested free tickets to one of the two Canary events. Apologies to the handful of subscribers who were excluded — we had more requests than tickets. You’ll be on the shortlist next time I’m in NYC!
Have no fear: some or all of these New York interviews will end up on the feed as pods.
2. ⚡️🗼〰️🗼⚡️Three years ago I spoke with Lauren Azar about MISO’s admirable long-range transmission planning.
Now, as punishment for its good deeds, MISO is being sued by a bunch of jerkwad states, many of which aren't involved and wouldn't host any of the power lines anyway. Republicans being Republicans, I’m afraid. I may pod on this later, depending how the lawsuit goes.
3. 📖 Let us pause to give praise to Wikipedia, one of the few platforms left on the internet that has largely avoided enshittification. Of course, the jerkwads are attacking it too, but it has remained stubbornly resilient — check out this fascinating Verge story for the details. Perhaps there’s something other platforms and institutions can learn! Anyway, (sign up as a paid subscriber to Volts and also) donate to Wikipedia.
4. 🍅 The Volts household has been struggling with a substantial tomato surplus. The picture below is a single day’s harvest! Leah Stokes sent me a very tasty recipe for tomato confit to preserve them for the rainy days ahead. What’s your garden’s bumper crop this year?
5. ✅ Community comment(s) of the month via Ed & Fred regarding climate communication. I agree that people can tire of the constant “brought to you by climate change” drumbeat no matter how true it is, which is why it’s important to point to local, successful climate projects like Samuel Jackson does in the ad that Fred mentioned.
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