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05/25/2026

Get out there and garden! Trees are worth more than you think.

05/03/2026

How to make a local heat island? Get an AI center. Warm your community up to 16° hotter than it normally is. Like summer isn’t already hot enough in the South.

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The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. https://cnn.it/3PEuYjL

04/30/2026

US renewables (yes, US) are flourishing, thank you very much
>US Solar 2025: Up a massive 28% over 2024
>Renewables officially passed a quarter of all US generation in 2025
>In March 2026, renewables beat gas (35% to 34.4%) for 1st time ever
>Wind shattered records across regional grids from Texas to the Midwest

And 2026 is on track for another record year

150 years of fossil fuel dependency is being buried in real-time, in the USA too

Sources and more reading:
- https://blog.ucs.org/john-rogers/new-records-set-in-the-renewable-energy-marathon/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-28/us-clean-power-growth-to-hit-record-this-year-despite-trump
- https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables-beat-natural-gas-us-grid-march-2026

04/27/2026

04/19/2026

The City of Memphis will be hosting a citywide cleanup event later this month in hopes of getting rid of blighted areas.

04/11/2026

Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, a Cleveland-based historian, artist, and Ph.D. student, is restoring a 1947 Greyhound bus and turning it into a mobile museum called the National Museum of the Great Migration.

02/14/2026

Happy Valentine’s Day! May you find the best chocolate today!