Weekly Climate Solutions Digest

Welcome

Cold light pools on late November mornings. A thin frost traces the railings, and flocks of starlings turn as one body before dissolving into the pale sun. It feels like the world is inhaling and holding, a quiet that lets small details ring.

Our stories this week share two threads. First, the art of making the invisible useful. Heat, wind, and light step into duty as Dallas commissions a 1 MWth industrial steam heat pump, New England launches a $450 million heat pump accelerator, the Philippines opens a 3.3 GW offshore wind auction, and Plenitude tests Swift Solar’s perovskite silicon tandem at utility scale. Second, the pairing of scale with care. Atlanta’s tallest carbon mineralized concrete tower tops out, turning chemistry into structure, while Timor-Leste revives Tara Bandu to protect community fisheries, turning tradition into law.

In the northern sky Orion rises a little earlier each evening, his belt crisp in the cold. The season invites us to notice what is steady. The work in these stories does the same. Quiet steps, taken together, begin to sound like momentum. With that cadence in mind, here are the projects turning intention into impact.

Top Climate Solutions Of The Week

• Skyven commissioned a 1 MWth steam-generating heat pump at a Dallas factory, showing how industrial heat pumps can decarbonize process steam and cut fuel use and emissions.
• Atlanta’s new tower topped out with carbon-mineralized concrete that embeds captured CO2, proving lower-carbon materials can scale to high-rise construction.
• Plenitude began a utility-scale pilot of perovskite-silicon tandem modules to validate higher-efficiency panels that can lower solar costs.
• The Philippines launched a 3.3 GW fixed-bottom offshore wind auction that will award sites and contracts to bring new clean power online.
• A $450 million New England Heat Pump Accelerator will bulk-buy and install heat pumps to replace oil and gas furnaces and cut bills.
• Timor-Leste communities reinstated Tara Bandu fisheries agreements to protect reefs, improve catches, and build climate-resilient livelihoods.

Together these efforts show how to harness heat, wind, and light while rooting progress in community and care. If the pace of change feels both hopeful and heavy, you are not alone. The next section is for anyone who might need it.

If you are struggling...

Maybe you feel tired, angry, anxious, or numb. This note is for you. The world is loud and messy. It is human to feel overwhelmed. You are not broken.

Start small. Notice the room you are in. Notice your breath. Then look at the work or community around you like an ecosystem. Try to read the conditions before you act. If things feel chaotic, offer calm and direction. If people are grieving, slow down and listen. If energy is flat, reconnect to purpose. You do not have to do everything.

You will carry contradictions. That is ok. You can care about the planet and still be imperfect. Let yourself hold paradox and widen the field of action. Ask what your true compass points to today. Move one step that way. Let it be enough.

Change often begins below the surface. What once fit may no longer fit. That is not failure. It is compost. You owe the world honesty more than consistency. When you feel lost, dig through the layers. Give the soil time to work. Call a friend. Drink water. Take a walk. Then try again, gently. The future needs your steady, ordinary courage.

For people and planet,
Bri Chapman
brichapman.com