Frances Moore Lappé

I'm so excited that my first book DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET is included. Wow! nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t-m…

A major city in Colombia cooled itself by 2°C simply by planting millions of trees and shrubs—demonstrating that nature provides one of the most effective cooling solutions available. Medellín has turned its urban environment into a cooler, more livable space through its innovative Green Corridors project, launched in 2016. The initiative planted nearly 880,000 trees and 2.5 million smaller plants along busy roads and waterways, replacing heat-trapping concrete with lush vegetation. This created an extensive network of interconnected green zones that function like natural cooling systems, reducing the city's average temperature by more than 2°C. Beyond cooling, the project delivers wide-ranging benefits: it purifies the air, boosts urban biodiversity by welcoming back wildlife, and fosters a healthier atmosphere through shade and evapotranspiration—the natural process by which plants release water vapor. Honored with the 2019 Ashden Award for Cooling by Nature, Medellín's approach has become an inspiring model for cities worldwide seeking sustainable ways to adapt to rising temperatures and combat climate change.

The CDC quietly stopped helping states test for infectious diseases like rabies. RFK Jr. is gutting critical public health services and making our country less safe. I'm calling on him to answer for his dangerous choices.

Soulfulpsy davideroyphd.substack.com/?r=222ii. I strongly recommend signing up for David Roy’s great insights. He was a college friend who has gone on to make important contributions. So impressed

Last week on Discovery’s Conspiracies & Coverups we tackled Epstein’s mysterious death

Switzerland is turning the unused space between train tracks into solar power plants. A startup called Sun-Ways is piloting removable solar panels that roll out like a carpet between the rails. No new land needed, easy to maintain, and they feed clean energy straight into the grid. If the US scaled something similar across its massive rail network, it could generate enough clean, homegrown electricity to power millions of homes. This is the kind of smart, low-impact idea that gets more clean energy online without paving over more fields or wild spaces. Innovations like this show we can produce the power we need while leaving more room for wildlife and nature. Pretty cool engineering with a big upside if you ask me.

Tonight’s episode of Conspiracies & Coverups, my new show starring ex-CIA operative Andrew Bustamante, is the most explosive one we’ve done yet. Because with all the noise, all the memes, all the endless speculation around Jeffrey Epstein, there’s one question that has never gone away: did he actually kill himself, or has the public been asked to accept a version of events that gets harder to defend the closer you look at it?The format of Conspiracies & Coverups (Wednesdays at 10pm on Discovery, coming to HBO Max soon!) is to take the story everyone thinks they know, and pressure test it in the real world. So with the help of an amazing set designer, who was too scared to put his name on it out of fear of being “Pizza-gated,” we got to work. We built a full-scale replica of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell, with the exact dimensions of the dingy room where the official story says he died. And what we quickly found was that a lot of things can sound plausible when you read them in an official report. But once you build the room and start working through what actually had to happen inside it, the story gets a lot messier. That’s why jurors get brought to crime scenes. When you’re standing in the actual space, a prosecutor’s version of reality can quickly fall away and the story has to answer to the physical reality: the distances, the materials, the angles, the injuries and the simple question of whether what’s being described makes any sense the way they say it did. We also brought in a former inmate who was Epstein’s suicide watch monitor and maybe the last person in MCC to really spend time with him, Dr. G, an obsessive internet sleuth who has spent years combing through surveillance footage and DOJ files frame by frame, the hugely popular podcaster Julian Dorey @juliandorey, who has been deep down the Epstein rabbit hole for years, and a respected forensic pathologist with thousands of autopsies under her belt to help us figure out what in this case actually holds up and what doesn’t. With giving away too many spoilers, once we built that cell, and tried to recreate Epstein’s final moments to match the autopsy report and the DOJ’s summary of events, the official account got a lot stranger. The NY state medical examiner ruled Epstein’s death a suicide. That could still be true. But what you’ll see in this episode is just how much reasonable doubt surrounds that conclusion, how much of the official story is challenged by confusing, contradictory, and deeply inconvenient evidence and a lot harder to reconcile than the public was led to believe. Finally, the show is doing well in the ratings, but as those of you in TV know, it’s not easy launching a new series on basic cable these days, so please help spread the word! Follow @discovery on Intsagram and interact with the show’s posts. Watch some clips here (they weirdly didn't release a clip showing the cell we built!):

Paris is working to become a '15-minute city' where everything you need is located locally within 15 mins. Every street will have a bike lane, 60,000 parking spots are being removed & replaced with parks. They aren't done yet. We have the solutions implement them. #ActOnClimate x.com/MikeHudema/sta…

Good morning with good news: US solar generation in January 2026 surged 15%, compared to January 2025. January solar in 2026 is up 69% over 2024! All RE rose 11%, generating 25% of US electricity. Coal FELL 12.8% & gas was down 3.4% in January electrek.co/2026/03/25/eia…

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened —how fast people on bikes “appeared” —once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. cnn.it/4uM0NXV

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

Pretty astonishing. In Texas, between 10:00 am and 4:00 p.m., 80-90% of electricity comes from carbon free sources. And storage is already a significant contributor in the early morning and evening

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.

A widespread transition to renewable energy could mitigate a major cause of international conflict in a future that moves away from fossil fuels, energy and climate change experts told ABC News. Read more: abcnews.link/Jb4QZLu

New paper: Repowering existing U.S. wind farms with newer turbines could double current output so that the U.S. could meet up to 21% (instead of 10.5% currently) of electricity demand from wind. Paper: web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… Article anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/03/americ…

@SenMarkey Heartbreaking

The Trump administration has failed to provide proper medical care to detained immigrants. Now, it is moving all unaccompanied children who are pregnant to Texas, where abortion is banned. Blocking girls as young as 13 from critical reproductive care is cruel, unsafe, and unjust.

AI systems aren’t just copying our biases — they’re making them worse studyfinds.org/ai-systems-amp…

@Artofphysique_ Is one about to give birth? Is that the secret?

How many birds are there?