Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

Excerpts from Pocket Observatory

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Power Grids Are Failing All Over America

Power Grids Are Failing All Over America

Profit, power, preconceived notions. For these things we let dreaming children die.

Meg Conley
Mar 13, 2021
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Excerpts from Pocket Observatory
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Power Grids Are Failing All Over America
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Last Wednesday, snow started to fall. Thick and fast. My kids went to bed hoping for a snow day. We’re new to snow days. My kids have spent most of their childhood in Oakland, California. Sometimes we had smoke days there.  The smoke from wildfire was so bad, ash fell from the sky and got stuck in our eyelashes. When o…

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