I've been saying for a while that using your EV as backup power for your house was coming... and now it's here!

GM's new home battery backup lets you plug your EV into it (assuming you have V2L - vehicle to load capability).

I love my backup battery (and my solar, which is separate), but I don't have an easy way to plug my EV into it, despite the Ioniq 6 having V2L.

For my next house, I will definitely be getting one of these.

You might like this article.
I know I am planning to read the book and share it with friends.

"Brilliant Economist Thomas Pikettys Plan to Save the World
To cool the planet, close the wealth gap. How Look to Sweden."

The State of Canada's Birds shows a 43% decline in aerial insectivores since 1970. But, the downtrend appears to be levelling off.
Lets keep pushing conservation efforts like the Atlantic Bank Swallow Monitoring Project & the SwiftWatch monitoring program.

Art Shaylena Stenback

John Seed is an Australian environmentalist who is part of the Deep Ecology movement. He once faced workers who attempted to bulldoze parts of the rainforest in New South Wales. I love his beautiful self realization of his actions.

Climate crisis enters critical and unpredictable new phase

25 of 35 planetary indicators at all-time highs. And, emissions hit an unprecedented peak.

Un numrique responsable est-il possible

Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

After the Southeast U.S.'s recent disasters, is it time to think of actions and policies that promote -- like subsidizing and burning -- as violence

In my sermon last Sunday, I spoke about how the Sahara has expanded in the past century due to and deforestation. Heres some good news about how Africa's Great Green Wall is drawing a line and holding desertification back.

Ding ding ding!: "You Should Be Furious at the Political Class For Enabling This Climate Catastrophe" -

- photo shared by my HS classmate to our HS eGroup , with a message vote Harris - Walz . Vote BLUE.

When you lie so much they have to create a law just for you .

Canada's two largest cities are cracking down on fossil fuel ads

: "What were witnessing online during and in the aftermath of these hurricanes is a group of people desperate to protect the dark, fictitious world theyve built. Rather than deal with the realities of a warming planet hurling once-in-a-generation storms at them every few weeks, theyd rather malign and threaten meteorologists, who, in their minds, are nothing but a trained subversive liar programmed to spew stupid shit to support the global warming bullshit, as one X user put it. It is a strategy designed to silence voices of reason, because those voices threaten to expose the cracks in their current worldview. But their efforts are doomed, futile. As one dispirited meteorologist wrote on X this week, Murdering meteorologists wont stop hurricanes. She followed with: I cant believe I just had to type that."

: "England has suffered its second worst harvest on record with fears growing for next year after heavy rain last winter hit production of key crops including wheat and oats.

The cold, damp weather, stretching from last autumn through this spring and early summer, has hit the rapidly developing UK wine industry particularly hard, with producers saying harvests are down by between 75% and a third, depending on the region.

On staple crops, Englands wheat haul is estimated to be 10m tonnes, or 21%, down on 2023, according to analysis of the latest government data by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU).

Winter barley was 26% down on last year, and the winter oilseed rape harvest was down 32%, in data released by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs on Thursday.

The ECIU estimates that farmers could lose 600m on five key crops wheat, winter and spring barley, oats and oilseed rape where production was down 15% in total."

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. Joanna Macy

11.10.2024 - 20:00 Uhr
Chart des deutschen Strommix ber die letzten 6 Stunden.

Such rains, may change the weather conditions in the region in the coming months and years. As the air holds more moisture, it promotes evaporation and provokes more storms

At 36 Boundary Street in London, a bold new mural by Shepard Fairey rises 15 feet above the street.

Climate emergencies threaten our collective security, but governments are flying blind into the storm

Just how doomed is home insurance

"Is the future insurable" Global insured losses from natural disasters topped $60 billion in the first half of 2024, significantly higher than the historical average.

'Israels genocide in Gaza is fuelling the climate and biodiversity crises'
As I have posted in the past, the very same people who support Zionism, are basically the same people behind climate change denial!

Superb article, thanks for sharing

Artworks in museums and galleries have become a focus of protest action, particularly in the U.K., where iconic paintings such as Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers," John Constable's "The Haywain" and Velzquezs "Rokeby Venus" have been targeted. Now, the country's National Museum Directors' Council are saying "enough." The organization shared an open letter in which it cited "physical damage to the artworks and distress to visitors and staff alike" as reasons protestors should reconsider. "The world is currently in a very dark place, but these demonstrations now need to be taken away from our museums and galleries so that they can continue to provide light and solace to all," the letter concluded. Here's more from The Art Newspaper. Story may be paywalled

Found this on a box truck

"The and Compassion in Politics sent the Lords commissioner for standards a dossier of evidence they claim shows the governments adviser on extremism has a commercial interest in organisations whose clients have been targeted by the very protesters whose activities he seeks to ban."

'liquefaction'

And for all the people who suffer, sustain damage, loose all they have, die, young generations, etc. while the fossil fuel industry is making billions, the COP29 president has a message:

"states should put aside disagreements, stop blaming each other and find common ground,"

"We cannot afford to waste time on defining who is guilty for global warming, or who caused more environmental harm

I think this article nails the mad circus the US is turning into, with echoes rippling across other countries, distracting from the worldwide emergencies

"Whats happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis."

I think many of us have realized that the problems are the system and our leaders, so it will take revolution or collapse for change to occur.

"Every time we get another one of these monster storms inflicting billions of dollars in damage not to mention the terrible cost in human lives...

"This has to stop," people say. "We can't allow it to continue."

"And yet it DOES continue, month after month, year after year. How much longer will we put up with it"

Conspiracy theorists were right weve found the climate controling machines they speak of, and yes, the government does fund them, to the tune of billions

Science Daily: Loss of lake ice has wide-ranging environmental and societal consequences

The world's freshwater lakes are freezing over for shorter periods of time due to climate change... Science daily

everything is fine

Trump showing off his new weather machine

Climate change gave a significant boost to Hurricane Miltons destructive rain, winds, scientists say.

From : "World Weather Attribution researchers said Friday that without climate change, a hurricane like Milton would make landfall as a weaker Category 2, not considered a 'major' storm, instead of a Category 3."

TED Talk with Katherine Hayhoe:

The most important thing you can do about is talk about it.

That said, there are do's and don't's.

That's where this comes in handy:

The New Climate Colonialism