Jim

“Over the course of 2024, he reported on New Year’s Day, the state had used 25 percent less natural gas to generate electricity than it had the year before, a reduction that by the spring of 2025 had grown to 43 percent. That’s the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in 40 years of writing about our predicament.”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Perovskite”
― Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

“Have you ever seen a wound heal by magic? You never forget it. The skin pulls together by itself, the two edges meet and become one, the scar fades. Even the little hairs grow back. It’s not like healing so much as it is like time running in reverse. But what’s truly wonderful is how it makes you feel.” Lancelot’s eyes began to lose focus. “In that moment you know, you know for a certainty, that God is with you. Of course He’s everywhere all the time, but when you do a miracle you actually feel it. He’s looking directly at you, working through you, holding your hands,”
― Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword

“to expand our Atlantic article into a book with the same title. In it”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness