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    The Food-Energy-Water-Compute Nexus: Adding the Fourth Letter

    The water board meeting ran late on a Tuesday in October. The applicant was identified only as Project Trillium, a code name pending NDA. The slide deck showed a 250-acre footprint twelve miles north of town, a substation that would double the county’s transmission capacity, and a request that read like a typo: 14 million…

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    The Three-Year Window: Powering AI Without Locking In Gas

    The decision was made on a Tuesday at four in the afternoon, in a conference room on the forty-second floor of a glass tower in San Francisco. The young analyst had laid two binders on the long table. One was three inches thick, labeled SOLAR + STORAGE. The other was less than half an inch,…

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    Earth Day 2026: Fossil Fuels, Hormuz & the One-Way Trip

    What the world’s most dangerous waterway reveals about the energy system we built — and the one we’re building now The tanker captain had run the Strait of Hormuz more than two hundred times. Twenty-one miles at its narrowest. Two shipping lanes, each barely two miles wide. Every time, the same ritual: radio check, speed…

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    Missing Lovebugs: A Climate Warning Sign for Florida’s Ecosystems?

    Missing lovebugs are becoming an increasingly visible signal of Florida ecosystem health, raising questions about a broader Florida lovebugs decline and what it may reveal about climate change indicator species. Once a predictable seasonal presence, their absence now prompts deeper inquiry into where lovebugs come from and whether shifting environmental conditions are disrupting long-established ecological…

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    Perpetual Sustainability at a Crossroads: World Water Day and Earth Day 2026

    World Water Day, March 22, 2026, the 33rd observance since its UN establishment, focuses on “Water and Gender,” highlighting equity in access and governance. One month later (April 22), the 56th Earth Day carries the theme “Our Power, Our Planet,” emphasizing collective agency in accelerating the energy transition. From awareness to accountability in the productivity…

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    Human-Centric Sustainability: Beyond Carbon in the Classroom

    What happens when a curious middle-school student applies today’s AI tools to a simple science question—and keeps asking better questions instead of stopping at the first answer? This article explores human-centric sustainability through the experience of Maya, an eighth-grader who didn’t want to build a volcano for her science fair. She wanted to understand whether…