🇨🇦 Peter 🌏 Fairley 🇺🇸

@peter.fairley.ca

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Fan of power grids, democracy & bike lanes. Journalist covering energy+climate for too long. Bylines: NYT TheTyee Sierra TheAtlantic IEEESpectrum ... Awards: SEJ, Covering Climate Now, SPJ ... Portfolio: http://fairley.ca

Captain William Heronemus on the California Academy of Sciences' Science in Action TV show in 1956.
Artists' rendition of Captain William Heronemus' windships, from a 1975 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Sign on the side of residential building in Santa Ynez, CA reads "Vote Peace Vote Trump". Water tower and American flag in background. PHoto taken in January 2025.
graph showing shift in California's power supply throughout the day on October 12th. Solar dominates supply during the middle of the day, then batteries become the biggest source in the evening.
picture shows headline "Raise caps on grid spend and profits after blackout, says Iberian power giant"
A young girl holding a protest sign that reads "Hands off our parks" at the #HandsOff rally in Santa Cruz, California on April 5, 2025
a graphic of actor Bill Murray pointing and saying "you're awesome"
US officials Mike Waltz and JD Vance on the ice in Greenland with their wives, trying to change the narrative in the US where everyone remains riveted by the SignalGate scandal.
the front cover of Rebecca Solnit's book Hope in the Dark
Chart showing Earth's daily surface air temperature trend, by year, since 1981. So far 2025's daily temperatures are far higher than average, as were 2023 and 2024's temperatures.
A photograph of Pima Indian Ira Hayes of Iwo Jima fame meeting US President Harry Truman in 1945
TV advert for a piece of survivalist equipment stating: "Will Canada Cause a U.S. Blackout?"
Hikers below a majestic oak tree on Russian Ridge, south of San Francisco
Minnesota farmers marching to protest the CU transmission project