Koreen Brennan

Vermont is using home batteries as a peak grid power source. www.renewableinstitute.org/how-home-bat... Canada has put 100,000 people on batteries in 6 mos and PR may soon have the largest battery grid in the US. www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Trees in a city can save lives in heat waves, significantly lower energy costs, support birds, and they're beautiful. Birdsong reduces stress levels, just another perk that trees offer city dwellers. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

More people are starting to catch on that biochar is an important solution to multiple problems including wildfires, fertility, water issues, and climate. Good to see the creative solutions to making it work at scale. www.parkrecord.com/2026/10/08/p...

Permaculture farm north of Tampa, FL for sale. Hundreds of plants, live oaks, long leaf pine, large home, stable, multiuse space, 2 car garage, more. circletfarms.farm

My latest article for the Disaster Resilience Initiative. In coming weeks, we'll publish a series of articles sharing regenerative solutions to disaster. drinetwork.substack.com/p/1be464ce-6...

Just published a substack article on How to Survive a Heat Wave. Many people who've experienced heat waves recently don't have air conditioning. There are ways to stay cooler without it, with little or no expense. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This company forgot to include climate change and pollution mitigation as part of their resilience formula. Seems like the most important part of the formula, no? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/r...

We are selling our permaculture farm in Florida. Lots of potential, hundreds of useful plants. Good income potential. Beautiful land, lots of love given to it. Please share, we'd like to find a like minded buyer if possible. circletfarms.farm On to new adventures!

Some of you may have seen social media posts announcing our move to North Carolina, but if not, here is the announcement! permalife.substack.com/p/a-new-adve...

Weather disasters often cause power outages; this articles discusses some of the reasons these become extended. Not everybody can afford solutions to this. Our free guides offer some low or no cost ways to cope with these outages here: https:pcx.earth/disaster

Heat waves are still occurring in some parts of the US, and the world. Heat illness kills more people than other disaster combined in the US. As we prepare to publish a detailed Toolkit on surviving extreme heat, here's an early look: drinetwork.substack.com/p/how-to-sur...

If you're interested in a career in permaculture or working on one, this course can help boost it. pina.in/permaculture...

I love doing everything I can to create a positive future. Regardless of the challenges, it seems the only thing worth doing.

I've come across this person's posts and found them to be often generalizing (all solar bad) and inflammatory. Good to have the background data.

Another great idea of where to place solar panels. Using them to create shade is "stacking functions" - a key strategy in permaculture design. Where you place things can either be wasteful or highly efficient, especially if it can then perform more than one service.

Climate US is now live! www.climate.us This replaces climate.gov and created by scientists with all the relevant research. Looks very accessible and useful. Pass it on!

Paris has only made car use more efficient (not banned) and increased ease of using other options and people chose other options, and got a reward - less pollution, better health.

Cities, towns, and even countries doing some creative things to increase quality of life while repairing ecosystems. These two things are not mutually exclusive but mutually beneficial. Would love to see more media attention to this clearly important news.

Some mechanics are doing this with some newer ICE vehicles too. Thoughts?

Sand batteries, salt batteries, solid state - energy storage tech is evolving rapidly and becoming more effective and cheaper, fast. There is still a lot of upside potential here. Fossil fuels cannot compete. This is real energy independence.

This is the actual reality of the situation.

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California is exploring placing solar panels where they can help save water, crops, and reduce urban heat islands. Increases health benefits, $$ savings, resource preservation. There is nothing more effective than whole systems design to solve multiple problems. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/p...

Systems thinking is a necessity if we want to use the energy we produce most efficiently and cost effectively. Why don't we do this already? It's a travesty, really. There is no excuse for the neglect of well-designed distributed energy networks.

Research on cities deploying batteries, heat pumps, and EVs together shows that meeting the fossil fuel reduction targets would save 22 to 37% of energy costs; the transition pays for itself.

There's a lot of opportunity to transition existing fossil fuel sites to renewables. This is one of the more creative examples. I'm wondering how this is working currently. medium.com/@koreenbrenn...

The work of making it easier to study and share results of using biochar in agriculture is vital in light of the need to transition more rapidly to regenerative ag - multiple benefits in conserving water, capturing greenhouse gases and increasing soil health/nutrition is exciting. Great webinar!

canyonsolar.com.au We're doing this at scale with prefabricated canopies.

I'll be offering a discussion of regenerative disaster resilience at the Global Earth Repair Conference on May 9, online - a rich convergence of ideas, connections, and practical solutions to repairing our beautiful planet. Hope to see you there! www.globalearthrepairconvergence.com

A really excellent reason to transition to regenerative agriculture/agroecology. Much more resilient! It will take effort, creativity, and work but the outcomes are so much better than not doing it. Worth it on every level! All indicators point to backing away from fossil fuels.

This trend will only continue -renewable energy gets cheaper, fossil fuels gets more expensive. The technology continues to improve and there is a lot more upside potential to it. Combine with walkable neighborhoods/cities for maximum quality of life improvements.

While I haven't read the study, burning wood should not be considered a "renewable" energy, imo. The only way it should be burned is gasification/biochar production with biochar used to capture carbon long term. Even then, the design needs to be net benefit on multiple fronts, including ecosystems.

A stable base and some human dignity can be an essential component in recovering from homelessness. This is also a strong factor in handling drug addiction - housing away from the person's dealers. It's just logical.

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Imagine your community owning its own source of electricity. There are various ways this works but the commonality is that it gives renters and people who can't install panels on their homes access to local renewable energy and cuts costs.

If you want to help legalize balcony solar (plug it into your outlet!), this page will help you see where your state is in the process and what you can do about it.

This is a trend that should be legalized in every state and country. Balcony solar allows renters and others who could otherwise not benefit from reduced utility bills to tap into the power of solar. Is it legal in your region? www.thecooldown.com/green-home/v...

When you really look at what's going on in some agroforestry systems, it's astonishing how well designed they are. Some oases are many hundreds of year old, producing food that entire time with minimal care. Work with nature, not against her.

Just to balance out the idea of solar panels on parking lots... The times I've lived in bikeable/walkable neighborhoods are some of the most pleasurable memories of my life. Can't say enough about that lifestyle. Would much rather be able to safely bike than drive and park.

In Central America, fast growing high protein trees like Gliricidea are used for living fence posts, and trimmed (pollarded) yearly to feed animals enclosed by the fences. Fence posts are created by sticking branches in the ground that root. Fodder trees can also create shelter belts, hedges, etc.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Just one more reason to take action regarding climate change.