From climate activist Bill McKibben:

On Saturday April 26 at 6:30 pm we need you at Old North Church in Boston. I mean, really need you! It's the official public launch of plans for September's Sun Day--we'll be having a multifaith service at the church, and then lighting a green lantern in the steeple to start people thinking about September. Rev. Lennox Yearwood will be on hand--perhaps the best rabble rouser in the entire environmental movement!--and the Grammy-nominated singer Antonique Smith, who'll be singing Here Comes the Sun. Lots of Bay State dignitaries too--and I'll even say a few words.

We'll be filming this to show across the nation, and the pews need to be filled with enthusiastic people. And to prop up that enthusiasm, here's some numbers I got this morning from my friend Marc Jacobson, the Stanford professor. He says that as of the weekend California's solar panels and batteries are working so well that the Golden State is using 44 percent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023. That's the single most optimistic number I've heard in four decades of working on the climate crisis--and now Texas is building clean energy faster even than California, setting new records just last month for solar, wind, and battery generation.