The Weekly Anthropocene
Sam Matey-Coste, Bill McKibben, Climate Action NowDispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.
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The Weekly Anthropocene, August 26, 2026
The Big Picture: Rising Sun!
Source.
Bloomberg has an excellent new visualization of the astounding global progression of solar power. We’ve just passed the 3-terawatt (3,000 GW, three million megawatt) milestone of installed solar cap...
Solar Solves Everything*
Solar Solves Energy
Size comparison of the Sun and Earth. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Solar solves energy because it’s generating electricity by tapping directly into a billions-of-years-old nuclear reactor 93 million miles away t...
The Weekly Anthropocene, August 19 2026
European Union
Source.
Solar has been a savior during the scorching 2026 European heatwaves. As coal plants in Poland, gas plants in Italy, and nuclear plants in France, Hungary, and Romania were shut down due to rivers running low cau...
Your Monthly Dose of Climate Hope: A Conversation with Bill McKibben, OG Climate Activist!
The 15th Monthly Dose of Climate Hope event took place on August 12, 2026! Sam Matey-Coste hosted an in-depth conversation with Bill McKibben, the legendary veteran climate activist, founder of Third Act, and writer of The Crucial Years! Th...
Promethea
Here's an experimental short fiction story I wrote recently. (As always, no AI). CW: violence.
The morning after the thunderstorm, a new dawn broke on the savanna. Pink and gold, like any other dawn, with wispy clouds breaking up t...
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I'm a climate and energy journalist and environmental science analyst. The Weekly Anthropocene, my Substack, offers data-driven independent journalism on progress from around the world. I also write Your Dose of Climate Hope on behalf of CAN!
Author, educator, and environmental activist; a founder of 350.org and Third Act.
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