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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him)

@kalauntra.bsky.social
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Well said Matt!
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Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Extreme weather is driving up the cost of food, electricity, and home insurance. Tech barons and fossil fuel execs are exploiting communities. @cplusc.bsky.social new strategic framework/agenda charts a path forward to rebalance power for the working class and address the climate crisis at scale.
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Johanna Bozuwa @jbozuwa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Energy prices are up and heat waves are coming soon. We need a new strategy to bring down costs, rebuild the state, and redistribute power, all while taking the climate crisis seriously as an economic disrupter. @cplusc.bsky.social is launching a new framework for how to get there! ✊🛠️🌎
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today @cplusc.bsky.social launches a working class strategy for tackling the affordability & climate crises. The climate‑cost nexus is already costing billions every year, and it will get worse the longer we don’t act on climate; we also must address working peoples’ immediate economic problems
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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It is time for a working class climate strategy. A better world is possible—and necessary!
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Alex Miller @notamiller.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We need policies that make our lives more affordable today and prevent our homes from flooding tomorrow. CCI's framework is how we do both. So proud of my teammates for putting this together!
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Extreme weather is driving up the cost of food, electricity, and home insurance. Tech barons & fossil fuel execs are exploiting communities. @cplusc.bsky.social’s new strategic framework & agenda charts a path forward to rebalance power for the working class and address the climate crisis at scale.
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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Well, @cplusc.bsky.social is once again doing the coolest shit on climate that you've ever seen!
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isaac @sevier.io · 15/04/2026
If you read one thing this week about the climate and energy crisis – and what we can and must do about both – then I highly recommend this from @cplusc.bsky.social. I'm on my way to New York to support the launch tonight!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Mijin please respond to my email 😢
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
excited for us to launch this new strategy - check it out!!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I really do think even polls are understating the level of distaste people have towards data centers and AI
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
People are really pissed not just at big tech, but at (oft corrupt) local governments who enable them - if we’re gonna somehow turn anti institutional rancor to build better institutions they have to be populist and allow people to fight big tech at scale to have any chance of succeeding
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/data-cente...
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Data Center Energy Demand Should be Contested
We can plan the grid for social good
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2026
I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We can and need to fight Big Tech and expand public control of our grid simultaneously. Integrating movement demands is how we get the 5-8x grid expansion needed for more socially useful electrification of home, industry and transportation. I hope this is useful and generates useful feedback!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We’re now seeing how data centers are harming political fortunes for RE even in LA. lapublicpress.org/2026/01/la-b...
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LA residents protest new battery storage facility, fearing fire risk and a link to AI data centers
The City of Industry has invited commercial and industrial development for decades. But locals said there’s a lack of transparency around the impacts of environmental pollution.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Franky, we’ve seen this with the hydrogen fights amongst the Biden admin, EJ, climate, fossil capital and developers - building out green hydrogen for greening steel production in the Rust Belt had very different reception than trying to bring GH2 for petroleum refineries that should be phased down.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
But they’re missing that data centers and the AI rollout are increasingly unpopular for very legitimate reasons: Big Tech’s alliance with the right, and its unplanned rollout as an assault on not just affordability but on the dignity of people’s labor.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I wrote a piece arguing it matters who we electrify and to what end! With the loss of the IRA and absent active policy signals, it's understandable why clean energy advocates and developers would see Big Tech’s power hunger + capital as a place to eek out a cleaner data center buildout.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
wdym here?
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I am slowly working on a thesis for why the US is dogshit at scaling up cleantech and, frankly, I think it's going to make nobody happy??
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
For this reason, the folks at @cplusc.bsky.social were entirely correct to say that we should use public programs for high speed rail and dense new housing to backstop a market for green steel
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isaac @sevier.io · 04/03/2026
One of the best people i know, @gruberte.bsky.social came on this podcast to talk about the work she is doing with two of the other best people i know, @jmijin.bsky.social and @jlappen1.bsky.social. One big takeaway for me is this...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/03/2026
Today on Volts: for the next few decades, we'll be in the "mid-transition," with clean energy systems growing as FF systems decline. Those FF systems will not decline smoothly -- there will be thresholds, "cliffs," where they suddenly crumble -- so maybe we should, I dunno, plan for it?
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The fate of fossil fuel systems in the "mid-transition"
I talk with Emily Grubert about the hidden dangers of letting the free market manage the decline of our legacy energy infrastructure.
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isaac @sevier.io · 25/02/2026
Great article from Benjy Sachs on the fight for public power and the strategy from below in Hudson Valley with @sarahana.bsky.social representing @mhvdsa.bsky.social and her community in the legislature! Features @lucyhoch.bsky.social of @publicgrids.org & Winston Yau of @cplusc.bsky.social!
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Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures
After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Of course - read our report here: climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
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End Point or Setback? A Retrospective of the Maine Public Power Ballot Initiative
CCI polling revealed that even following the vote, twice as many Mainers prefer public ownership of energy resources than private ownership.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
But it also gives working people the ability to pose the question: who are we building and owning the grid for? Anyway: read the article here heatmap.news/energy/hudso...
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Public Power Advocates Have Learned From Past Failures
After a disappointing referendum in Maine, campaigners in New York are taking their arguments straight to lawmakers.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
With data center demand, along with home, industry and transportation electrification coming - the question of who should pay for it is certainly top of mind for folks, and public power offers an immediate lower cost alternative to it.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What's also clear is just how much smarter and strategic this new wave of public power movement is getting - folks are learning from one another, and really focusing on what *democratic* control looks like beyond being just a state-held asset or administrative authority. @sevier.io @publicgrids.org
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
They are right to think so - the fact that private utilities get such a high guarantee rate of return should really be read as a profit guarantee. The public deserves better, and essential services like electricity should not be tethered to the profit motive.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Indeed - in our report, organizers like @lucyhoch.bsky.social found costs were a huge issue in motivating support for the Maine initiative even before the new political salience of affordability
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
As Sandeep puts it in the piece - public power even when not nationwide, functions as a 'birch rod' to motivate still private utilities to offer better and cheaper services
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Electric utilities are all the rage right now, because of costs, decarb needs and new demand, but I see many energy wonks often conflate ownership and regulatory structure with what constitutes a public utility, and how much publicly owned utilities can lower costs.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Benjy Sachs from Heatmap News had a great piece out yesterday about how the #public #power fight in Mid-Hudson Valley is learning from the experiences of the Public Power referendum in Maine, citing our @cplusc.bsky.social report in November (and a small quote from yours truly)!
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
During last night's SOTU, we heard that Dems and the "Green New Scam" are making working people's lives worse. But Trump's plans and promises are *actually* what's making life more expensive and more dangerous. Here are three reasons why:👇
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Green New Scam":The right blames the GND for everything from immigration to trade as an excuse to go all in on FFs, which will keep polluting the planet and destabilizing the economy. An agenda that tackles affordability and climate can win: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/affordabil...
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Affordability and Climate Action Don’t Have to be Opposites
Centrist pollsters keep treating climate like a siloed issue. Voters know better.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Ratepayer Pledge": Trump admitted that the US grid can't power data centers as is, so they'll bring their own energy. But an uncoordinated, market-based approach makes people pay higher utility bills for private benefit: dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/cp/177588181
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Rising Electricity Prices Shouldn’t Mean Ripping Off Ratepayers
Data for Progress and Climate and Community Institute's monthly snapshot of the widespread demand and pathways forward for climate action.
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johnny deformed @bizzo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If the left doesn't adopt online sports gambling, online sports gambling will be entirely defined by the right.
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I really need the energy community here to grow up out of the YIMBY/NIMBY frame
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
LinkedIn Bluesky cross posting?!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Diva down!!!!!!!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Woofff
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Also whey protein tastes horrible?!
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Are u super swole now
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
At the same time what can we build to advance that authority towards that if a national grid for many reasons may not be on the agenda tmr?
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Your mom’s ecological takes (he/him) @kalauntra.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
There is obv a gaping hole in that idea, which is ‘obligation to serve’ (which is itself under contention), but also lack of any central coordinating authority who can deny access to power based on social utility + ensure the load doesn’t just go to the nearest territory - a national grid, if u will
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