☀️ California: Converting fallowed Central Valley land into a 21 GW utility-scale solar hub; permitting/site prep underway.

⚡️ Australia: EnergyConnect milestone—1,500 towers installed across 900 km to move renewables between states.

🏠🔋 Distributed energy: Sunrun + HASI form a $500M JV to finance ~40,000 rooftop solar-and-battery systems.

🌿💧 Nature-based: Kigali restores 1,200 acres of wetlands with engineered channels/parks, cutting floods and storing carbon.

🚗⚡️ Mobility: Hawaii orders a statewide roadmap to reach zero-emission transportation by 2045—aligning infrastructure, incentives, and rules.

✈️🌧️ Forecasting: Atmospheric River Recon expands globally with more aircraft/dropsondes to sharpen storm forecasts for reservoirs and public safety. https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-17/