The Weekly Anthropocene
Sam Matey-Coste, Abi Olvera, Climate Action Now, Jan RosenowDispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.
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The Weekly Anthropocene, July 29 2026
The Big Picture: Hunger Keeps Decreasing!
The UN FAO World Hunger Map as of July 2026. Interactive and available online.
A new United Nations report has calculated that hunger among humanity declined for three consecutive years, in slo...
The Weekly Anthropocene, July 22 2026
The Big Picture: Solar Just Keeps Accelerating!
Source.
Humanity reached a cumulative total of 1,000 gigawatts (one terawatt, or one million megawatts) of installed solar capacity around December 2021. We passed 2,000 gigawatts of sola...
Your Monthly Dose of Climate Hope: A Conversation with Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, Plug-In Solar Activist!
The 14th Monthly Dose of Climate Hope event took place on July 15, 2026! Sam Matey-Coste hosted an in-depth conversation with Cora Stryker, co-founder of the incredibly fast-growing new plug-in solar advocacy group Bright Saver! The YouTube...
On Forgotten Wealth
We are all wealthy beyond our ancestors’ wildest dreams, and we have forgotten it.
Many ordinary parts of your daily life, entirely unremarkable, not prized or treasured but treated as an expected standard notable only if absent, were once...
Going live with Cora Stryker of Bright Saver in a few minutes!
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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!
Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Views my own.
Oxford Professor. Energy policy advisor. Energy transition optimist. Cutting through the noise to show how the clean energy future is possible.
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