Alaina Wood

Good Climate News is my newsletter focused on recent examples of progress being made to address the climate crisis. It’ll always be free, but I do have paid subscriptions open if you would like to support my work. Don’t forget to subscribe because I publish a new edition every Friday!

I'm planning to do this on a much smaller scale in my backyard!! I've got designs for a solar pergola with a stock tank dip pool underneath and muscadine grapes growing up the side of the pergola.

Real talk? I teared up when I heard about Lula's win. Same goes for when Vučić conceded. Voting really does matter, and I hope I get to cry happy tears about the upcoming elections in Israel and the United States too.

So you're telling me this wasn't a skit from SNL UK?!

I'm forever grateful that I own a historic home, but I wasn't quite prepared for how much of my life would be spent battling moisture and cursing previous owners for their poor decisions / craftsmanship.

Here’s a little algorithm cleanse to get out of the doomscroll ✨ Read more: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-56...

I have bots replying to comments under my videos on TikTok telling people not to believe what I have to say because I’m “too pretty to be a scientist” and therefore must be an AI video.

Bad actors are targeting my posts and encouraging people to mass commit suicide if they’re worried about climate change. It’s disgusting that social media platforms don’t automatically take those comments down, so please report, delete, and block any account saying that.

Did you know there’s other battery chemistries out there besides lithium-ion??

THAT’S MY ALMA MATER AND MY OLD EMPLOYER!! Congratulations, Jay and the rest of the UT Sustainability staff!! This is such fantastic news and what gorgeous trucks!! (Working for UT Recycling when I was a student is what inspired me to pursue a career in solid waste)

I used to monitor methane emissions at landfills, so I know way more about methane than I would like 😵‍💫

How much do you pay monthly for your solar + battery systems? I don't care about how little your electric bill is. I want to know how much your solar loan costs. Curious to know because my audience is wondering, and honestly, I am too!

Hot Take: If you're a science communicator, you shouldn't be sharing articles that are behind a paywall. Screenshot the article, use an archiving tool, or choose another article that isn't behind a paywall. Our audience shouldn't have to pay to understand what we're talking about.

My zoom lens isn't good enough to take a picture, but I currently have 8 monarch butterflies in my 10'x10' wildflower patch!!!

Don’t give up now because our imperfect activism is working!!

I used to see maybe 1-3 monarch butterflies during migration season in East Tennessee, but now I'm seeing 3-6 a day thanks to people planting small native flower patches!! Keep on planting native, y'all. It's working!!

Earlier this year I planted a few raspberry canes as part of my plan to have a food forest in my yard. I fully assumed I wouldn’t get any fruit this year, but I was wrong! I have a tiny crop!

What better way to end #ClimateWeekNYC than getting to see progress on a project I’ve been following for years? Thanks for having me, Billion Oyster Project 🦪

I can’t help but notice that I haven’t received a single suspected bot comment since I got to Climate Week NYC 🤔

Not giving into despair is a key theme at #ClimateWeekNYC.

Upcoming book about evidence-based hope and how to take action on climate 👇

There is still hope!! Read more: goodclimatenews.substack.com/p/edition-54...

Reposting because Big Tech is everywhere at Climate Week 😵‍💫

Absolutely loving the conversations happening at the @selc.bsky.social #ClimateWeekNYC event about the intersection between race, class, and environmental injustices. It’s so refreshing to see Southern voices and organizing efforts get uplifted in spaces where we’re typically ignored.

Being at #ClimateWeekNYC is first time I’ve been somewhere I can loudly talk shit about Trump without fear of getting harassed / shot in two years, and I didn’t know how much I needed that until I arrived.

Y’all at #ClimateWeekNYC best beware. I brought my husband who works in construction, and he’s not going to hold back when it comes to affordability and accessibility around home electrification and green building practices.

I might’ve looked like a crazy person stomping around downtown Roanoke while waiting for the train, but I was doing the local ecosystem a favor by killing dozens of spotted lanternflies.

Mitch McConnell, weirdly enough, looks like the male version of my Appalachian Nana. She is currently experiencing cognitive decline, and so I unfortunately recognize the look on Mitch's face all too well. It's the look of someone who isn't present, and what the Republicans are doing is elder abuse.

My newest hobby is flipping off every Flock camera I see, and that's pretty easy considering my city has hundreds of them.

Y'all in the climate space need to go peek at the replies of the folks you follow because I'm noticing you're following quite a few of the accounts I'm having to block due to harassment.

It's been almost two years since a major climate disaster (Hurricane Helene) hit my community, and they're still finding bodies in the debris. I'm so glad Nancy's family can finally have some closure.

It’s not inevitable so keep fighting 👏