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THE NEW YORK TIMES   ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ 
A Part of Modern Life So Essential That Armies Should Never Attack It Again
  >GUEST ESSAY: The international community attempts to protect select civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, dams and nuclear power plants, via the Geneva Conventions. It’s time to add power grids to that privileged roster.

NATURE   The world’s most cited scientific journal
Geothermal networks let cities warm and cool as one  >An upgrade to district heating boosts flexibility and efficiency, and gives gas companies a renewable future.

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THE ATLANTIC   ‘Ideas that matter. Since 1857′ 
How a Plan to Save the Power System Disappeared
  >A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Trump appointees blocked it.

GRIST.org   ‘A beacon in the smog’
‘It just goes into a black hole’  >The Trump administration is burying dozens of studies detailing the promise of renewable energy, impeding a transition away from fossil fuels.

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INVESTIGATE WEST   An award-winning nonprofit journalism studio based in Seattle
A Lost Decade: How Climate Action Fizzled In Cascadia  >Washington, Oregon and British Columbia pledged to slash carbon emissions. In a decade full of big talk and some epic battles, they all failed. “A Lost Decade” kicked off Decarbonizing Cascadia, a cross-border media collaboration.

UNDARK   From the Knight Science Journalism Program
A Timber-Based Building Method Draws Praise, and Skeptics  >Cross-laminated timber is today’s hottest sustainable construction material, but can it really slow climate change?

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THE TYEE   Independent online news magazine from Vancouver, British Columbia since 2003
They Had to Break the Law to Try to Save Humanity >So argued activists in a Nanaimo courtroom. How their ‘necessity defence’ changes legal history and climate protest in Canada.

HAKAI MAGAZINE   ‘Acts of journalism focused on coastlines and coastal communities’
The Hot Mess of Hawai‘i’s Renewable Power Push  >Can the island of Moloka‘i and its utility get along well enough to teach the rest of the world how to get off fossil power?

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN   America’s oldest continually-published magazine
Solar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback [PDF]
Weather-Smart Electric Grids Are Needed for Wind and Solar Power to Surge [PDF]

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW   ‘Bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions’  Can Japan Recapture its Solar Power?  >>  Alberta’s Oil Sands Heat Up  >>  Saving Lives with Living Machines [PDF]

IEEE SPECTRUM   National Magazine Award for Excellence Among Thought Leader Magazines
China’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid   >>  China’s Cyclists Take Charge  >>  Nuclear Wasteland

ANTHROPOCENE   ‘Nonprofit journalism for a Human Age we actually want to live in’
Shipping solar power at the speed of a freight train  >Can rolling batteries make an end run around the grid congestion holding up clean power projects across the U.S.?

NEW SCIENTIST   The world’s most popular weekly science magazine
Finally we can power the planet on renewables alone – here’s how [PDF]

DISCOVER   ‘Expand your mind’
Averting the Blackout of the Century

InsideClimate News   Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of our world’s big story
Has the UN Climate Assessment Process Become Obsolete?  
States Are Using Social Cost of Carbon, Despite Trump’s Opposition

ENSIA   Solutions-focused environmental journalism
Are Energy-Saving Settings Bad for the Environment?
If Carbon Pricing is So Great, Why isn’t it Working?

AlbertaViews   A feisty alt-monthly from Canada’s oil-soaked heartland
Digging a Carbon Hole for Canada [PDF]

SUNDAY TIMES of LONDON   A colourful Murdoch broadsheet.
An Ice Age Cometh

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD   A 130-year-old monthly for design professionals.
Building-Integrated Wind Power: A Force of Nature  >>  Urban Agriculture Grows Up