Joel Rosenberg

Let's #ElectrifyEverything in our schools! homes!

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

Rewiring America has released our Rewiring Schools package!

It's meant to help kids around the country start a school board campaign to #ElectrifyEverything in their school.

https://t.co/bxn9igJevA

[Rewiring America @rewiringamerica]

Heat Pump Water Heater & Heat Pump Air Conditioner (and furnace).

They won Halloween.

[UndauntedK12 @UndauntedK12]

🚨Breaking news: @tucsonunified just passed one of the country's most ambitious climate action plans for a school district -- all written and lobbied for by middle, high school, and college students! #LetYouthLead
https://t.co/wJ4RTZN01E

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

“people aren’t smart enough to understand time of use rates”

Counterpoint:

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

When horses were replaced by cars there was a lot of resistance & scaremongering by the incumbent horse industry.

Here's an old anti car advert by a horse carriage company.

Technology transitions are always characterised by resistance from incumbents who want to keep their assets and continue to gain from them.

[This Is Planet Ed @ThisIsPlanetEd]

NEW:
In partnership with @nature_org, @ThisIsPlanetEd worked directly with young leaders from across the country to co-produce a toolkit full of talking points, advocacy strategies, AND bright spots.

Check it out⬇️ #YCAT
https://t.co/CNUYfyb7aG

[Jody Freeman @JodyFreemanHLS]

Idea: what if the Democrat climate message could be "build baby build" to counter "drill baby drill" since climate change is fundamentally an infrastructure challenge and we need to build solar, wind, batteries + transmission & storage at scale. Build stuff! Jobs! Growth! 😊

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

This is great, but even better would be to state these as FACTS instead of repeating the falsehoods to rebut them.

Still a handy catalog!

[Timmons Roberts @TimmonsRoberts]

Wow.

Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles

Check it out. Share.

Nice work @SabinCenter

https://t.co/OKNWfZfl0E

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

@quinnemmett @ESBInitiative out of WRI has a national focus, and they should be able to connect you to local groups. They've got their ear to the ground.

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

This is a FANTASTIC talk about the power of maps to help communicate problems, and design and implement solutions.

Walz's 20 years as a GIS-wielding geography teacher really shines through!

[Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @deepseadawn]

Did you know? Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, newly-announced running mate of @VP Harris, was the keynote speaker at our @EsriUC just last month??? Catch his super inspiring talk here:

https://t.co/HBpsM6oW5Y

Cc @leahstokes

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

We are thrilled to announce a $190M investment in energy infrastructure for K-12 schools around the country to create healthier learning environments for children.

Join us in congratulating the selectees of the 2024 #RenewAmericasSchools Prize & Grant.
➡️ https://t.co/FogspTS4rz

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

So this is a little sci-fi, but useful to think about.

The Kardashev scale measures "a civilization's level of technological advancement" based on energy use.

Humans on Earth are still not quite Type I. Switching to renewables is a great first step.

https://t.co/4auVnXcPyR

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

I think a lot of conservative energy wonks need to hear this again.

Fossil fuels are great mainly as a bootstrapping energy source accessible to low-tech civilizations.

No advanced civilization will use fossil fuels to power abundance. There’s not enough of them.

[Eli Dourado @elidourado]

I think a lot of conservative energy wonks need to hear this again.

Fossil fuels are great mainly as a bootstrapping energy source accessible to low-tech civilizations.

No advanced civilization will use fossil fuels to power abundance. There’s not enough of them.

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

@Jed_Trott @johnfocook's https://t.co/b79S25k57U is pretty great, though I haven't used it to persuade anyone personally.

@KHayhoe is a master of persuasion, with a specialty in religious skeptics.

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

@Noahpinion 'As Jill Lepore wrote in 2019’s This America: “Patriotism is animated by love, nationalism by hatred.” Or, as Adam Gopnik wrote in 2016, “Patriotism needs no enemy, but nationalism demands one.”'

https://t.co/MflSVyiyFX (via @billmckibben)

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

This is an insightful summary of where we are, locally and globally: "Politics is now a battle between those who want to fix what is broken and those who want to keep breaking."

https://t.co/baZRMR7a60

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

@SimonMahan FYI, this isn't a Baz Luhrmann quote — it's from Mary Schmich's 1997 column in the Chicago Tribune that Baz turned into a song. (It was also an early viral Internet hoax when Paul Krassner emailed it out as Kurt Vonnegut's MIT commencement speech): https://t.co/KINkzNawva

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

"Solar panels. Heat Pumps. Electric buses."

Just three of the demands Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1 is making for its next contract, because kids can't learn on a boiling planet.

This is visionary bargaining for the common good. https://t.co/ig89Jefwpk

[Joel Rosenberg @learngineer]

Here's the link for @NewBldgsInst upcoming webinar on 6/27/24, with Sacramento City Unified School District as a case study in school electrification: https://t.co/G3azUV9129

[New Buildings Institute @NewBldgsInst]

Join @NewBldgsInst for a webinar on June 27 to learn about the Building Electrification Technology Roadmap (BETR) for K-12 schools and hear a school district’s firsthand experience with electrification.

Learn more and register.

[Rewiring America @rewiringamerica]

Battle of the stoves! 🥊

We had a gas stove and an induction stove go head to head to see which one can boil water faster.

[🎥: @gardengraffiti]

[UndauntedK12 @UndauntedK12]

You've heard our spiel, you've attended our 'IRA 101' session, you get the gist of the unlimited, noncompetitive opportunity knocking at your door.

Ready to answer it? Come to the '201' session, and let's go deeper on IRA tax credits for schools: https://t.co/fKEEm262xT