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Even as federal rollbacks strip away clean energy credits and climate protections, states, tribes, and communities are s...
08/31/2026

Even as federal rollbacks strip away clean energy credits and climate protections, states, tribes, and communities are stepping up to fill the gap. Here are five climate justice wins worth celebrating this month.

💚 In New Mexico, the state’s largest utility hit 80% carbon-free electricity, a near-total reversal from mostly coal and gas just five years ago, after the state passed its landmark Energy Transition Act.

💙 In Oakland, APEN broke ground on Chinatown’s first resilience hub, a community center built to run on solar, filter wildfire smoke, and keep power on when the grid fails.

💚 The Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribal lands, protecting water, air, and cultural resources after 64% of surveyed citizens opposed the facilities.

💙 A federal appeals court protected $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund money the EPA tried to terminate, keeping clean energy funding flowing to the communities that need it most.

💚 In Miami, WeCount! ran a heat clinic for outdoor workers and kept up the fight for water, shade, and rest, pressing the country’s largest plant nursery to protect the people who work its fields.

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08/28/2026

Nobody talks about evacuation as a privilege. But it costs money to leave.

Gas. A place to stay. A car that runs. Days of missed shifts from a job that may not hold. For millions of households, the order arrives and there’s no way to act on it.

The same pattern shows up after the water goes down. Aid moves through paperwork, so the families who can produce a deed get help first, and the ones who rent or inherited a house without clean documents wait months.

The groups doing the fastest, most useful disaster work right now are the ones who never waited for that system. They keep their own lists. They get cash out in days. They knock on the doors nobody else knows to knock on.

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When extreme weather hits, it is neighbors and networks who show up first. It has always been that way.As hurricane and ...
08/21/2026

When extreme weather hits, it is neighbors and networks who show up first. It has always been that way.

As hurricane and fire seasons grow more intense and cuts to NOAA and FEMA leave more communities without federal resources, frontline communities are doing what they have always done. Sharing skills, resources, and care so that no one has to weather a storm completely alone.

The The Solutions Project has built a hub of resources and stories from grantee partners who are leading community-led disaster preparedness and recovery work. From toolkits on knowing your rights during disasters to hurricane preparedness guides in multiple languages to solar generator loaner programs. This is knowledge built by the people closest to the work.

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08/18/2026

Five things always worth investing in for disaster recovery. What’s on your list? Comment below ⬇️

It took eight years to actualise. UPROSE never stopped. Eight years of organizing. Eight years of commitment to one visi...
08/04/2026

It took eight years to actualise. UPROSE never stopped. Eight years of organizing. Eight years of commitment to one vision: Community-owned solar. The Solutions Project was a part of this great initiative all along.

NYC's first community-owned solar. 725 kilowatts. 200 families. 25% off electricity bills.$1 million+ going back into the community as a dividend fund over twenty years. Reinvested into future projects right here in Sunset Park.

This is what it takes. Persistence. Vision. Community power that doesn't quit. Thats everything UPROSE stands for.
Get tickets to celebrate 60 years of UPROSE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uprose-60-years-in-motion-tickets-1983555565091

Even as federal rollbacks strip away clean energy credits and climate protections, states and communities are stepping u...
08/03/2026

Even as federal rollbacks strip away clean energy credits and climate protections, states and communities are stepping up to fill the gap. Here are five climate justice wins worth celebrating this month.

💚 In the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance began lending solar generators to mothers across Tinian, so backup power reaches the whole community when the grid goes down.

💙 In Colorado, renewables supplied more than half the state’s electricity, 53%, for the first time ever, a real step toward its goal of 100% clean power.

💚 In New Jersey, the state passed laws to lower energy bills, sending credits to ratepayers and making big data centers pay their fair share instead of passing the cost down to everyone else.

💙 In California, regulators voted to stop utilities from shutting off power to customers once it hits 90 degrees, down from 100, because losing electricity in a heat wave can be deadly.

💚 And in Washington, a federal appeals court refused to let the EPA weaken national soot pollution standards, keeping protections in place for the communities breathing the worst air.

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Tinian has spent 2026 in recovery. Located in the Northern Mariana Islands, this U.S. territory was hit by two super typ...
07/29/2026

Tinian has spent 2026 in recovery. Located in the Northern Mariana Islands, this U.S. territory was hit by two super typhoons in three months: six weeks without power after the first, a third of the island still dark when the second one hit. When disaster response finally arrived, it came from far away and on a temporary basis: federal generators, flown in by the military, gone once the emergency is declared over.

This July, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance is piloting something different. Their Solar Generator Loaner Program is starting in San Jose, Tinian, lending portable solar power to mothers and expecting mothers, the women who already check in, share what they have, and hold the networks of care together when the grid goes down.

Give a mother reliable power and you don’t just power one house. You steady a whole community.

This is what community-led recovery looks like: not waiting for the next airlift, but building resilience that’s already in place when the storm hits and stays long after the cameras leave. Rooted in the Chamoru value of inafa’maolek, making things good for each other.

The The Solutions Project is proud to help fund MCCA and grassroots groups building resilience before the next storm hits.

07/24/2026

Tropical storm Bertha has already made landfall, coming ashore in Louisiana and Texas this week. Parts of coastal Mississippi are still recovering from flooding caused by the last tropical storm, Arthur, in June.

Hurricane season is here, and every storm is a reminder of the same pattern. Community groups show up first, and they are still there long after the news cycle has moved on, plugging critical gaps that federal programs leave behind.

They hold knowledge no agency has. Which neighbors can’t drive. Who needs power for a machine. Which block floods first. That knowledge gets used in the hours before help arrives and in the months after it leaves.

This is why we fund grassroots organizations. Not because they should have to carry this, but because they already are.

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