$10 – CleanTechnica

Help CleanTechnica’s work by way of a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Assist us produce all the high-quality, unique content material we publish week after week regardless of the challenges of content-scraping AI, delinquent media, inflation, and different hurdles.

We now have 1000’s of subscribers, and plenty of extra supporters and longtime readers. Most individuals who assist the work we do present $3/month (through PayPal, Patreon, Stripe, and Substack). That’s nice. We recognize each greenback. However … just a few issues have been occurring recently and we’d positively recognize extra assist when you have it to provide. For instance:

• A cup of espresso is greater than $3 now. Actually, it’s extra like $7. Inflation’s a —bleep—. We now have big internet hosting prices as a result of we’ve got plenty of site visitors although we don’t promote high-dollar items. We now have publication prices, accounting and lawyer prices, workers prices, and many others., and many others. And everybody appears to be elevating their costs.
• AI is doing AI issues. Whereas prior to now, many individuals discovered our website by Googling one thing and clicking a hyperlink to an article of ours that instructed them about that factor, these days, AI has stepped in entrance of conventional media websites and is claiming to know all issues on a regular basis. Even when it’s blatantly mistaken, it’s doing the American factor, sticking its chest out, and making claims confidently which can be utterly false. That’s ok for the overwhelming majority of individuals. Sure, we do get site visitors from the hyperlinks ChatGPT, Google AI, and many others. now embrace, however you possibly can think about that’s a fraction of the people who find themselves studying what AI has regurgitated from our content material.
• Social media is its personal menace. Increasingly more, individuals need to simply learn stuff on social media and get their information there, not studying for tales on actual media websites. I’m 1000% assured we’ve by no means had something near this degree of misinformation unfold as we do within the 2020s. Social media, or delinquent media as Steve Hanley calls it, is really creating nice hurt to our society. For those who recognize extra truth based mostly, considerate, long-form content material, toss us just a few cash a month and we’ll really feel immensely grateful.
• Discover all of the paywalls throughout the media? Yup, that’s the strategy a lot of the media has determined to make use of to take care of these challenges. Paywalls, paywalls, paywalls. We’ve averted going that route for varied causes. However we’d nonetheless recognize the assist from those that can present it. And, hey, we don’t even blast the large subscription request on high of each article like nice shops that haven’t gone to paywalls, like The Guardian, do.

Anyway, there’s extra to place right here, however you get the purpose. We’d love extra assist with a purpose to extra sustainably do what we do, and to have the ability to do it higher. You may contribute on Substack, Stripe, or Patreon. (Many nonetheless contribute through PayPal, and that’s superb, however we’ve discovered it’s higher to go together with considered one of these.)

Additionally, I simply need to spotlight that along with doing our greatest to cowl all the new information within the sector that comes out day-after-day, we additionally put plenty of time, effort, and cash into creating high-quality unique content material. Listed here are a few of the unique items we’ve printed this month thus far:

So, yeah, if you happen to’re capable of be a part of others who’re contributing $10/month to CleanTechnica, that might be nice. Or no matter you’ll be able to contribute is appreciated. Thanks.