By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Solar is *great* for agriculture, especially in climate-ravaged Texas, where it provides crucial shade for crops and livestock, while substantially reducing soil evaporation, resulting in substantial irrigation savings. 35/ 1787
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026When the oil-captured Texas leg introduced a bill to force electric companies to add a watt of fossil power for every watt of solar their customers installed, furious ranchers from blood red GOP rural districts flooded their town hall meetings, decrying the plan as "DEI for fossil fuels." 36/ 18914
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The bill died: austinfreepress.org/renewables-a... This is the template for the long-foreseeable future. Thanks to Trump's stupid, bloody, unforgivable war of choice in the Gulf, the world is going to install *unimaginable* amounts of cleantech. 37/austinfreepress.orgRenewables are now the ‘Costco’ of energy production, Bill McKibben saysAustin Sierra Club hosted a virtual conversation on May 6 with climate activist Bill McKibben on the current state of environmental affairs. McKibben has written influential books on climate change… 19112
