In a world of selfish authoritarians, be a plugged-in politician like Mamdani in NYC. Work for everyone, not to grab for yourself.

🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋 'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

"Ensconcement offers an epistemological and developmental tool to study and understand past injustices in order to co-create ways to address them — upholding the vital principles of democracy, transparency and accountability to a high standard." Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...

I'm happy to share that our Special Issue is now complete, and our editorial introduction has just been published in Sustainability Science! link.springer.com/article/10.1... @sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social

In the world of 2025, bet like China on an electro-state future, not like the US on being a petro-state. Wish Norway would embrace the first right proper instead of desperately clinging to the latter as it fades. Today, build like it's for tomorrow, not as you recall from yesterday.

Spain responding rightly to an astute and evidenced understanding of the outage by improving technical systems support to continue exponential expansion of renewable energy. The fossil fuel lobby cannot win over facts in a competitive market with informed governance and management of energy systems.

He's here, he's live! Catch @jonworth.eu on livestream from @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y726...

A useful overview of electrification and deep decarbonisation, pointing out the need for a lot more electricity production to move towards net zero targets.

Looking forward to hosting @jonworth.eu tomorrow @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social - he'll address European railway politics, a theme there's widespread interest in and a cause there's momentum for! Join us at 11 if interested :) (venue: Spisestuen, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker)

Beautiful peaceful protest against the man who would be king, a song for a free country.

Beautiful stuff. In a world with so much going wrong, nice to see a few things going right.

Such a treat to witness the mesmerising @buggewesseltoft.bsky.social (twice!), the awesome @harukimurakami.bsky.social with sage reflections, and the one and only Mari Boina who evocatively recited a Palestinian poem and called for an end to the Israeli genocide. Packed house and a standing ovation.

Lovely to be in beautiful Bergen for the kickoff of the ECOBUDGETS project about sustainability budgeting related to municipal work on climate and land use planning. Useful reflections shared to inform my role as an advisor on this @uibcet.bsky.social collaboration with a range of societal partners.

Death of a glacier, climate murder, indifferent = complicit.

Bearing witness: apocalypse now. For this glacier anyway.

This train is gonna gather speed.

Good things come in twos! Here's a nifty summary takeaway and links to two latest pieces by @jeremywallace.bsky.social

🖊️ Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present #Transformations: a short report from our colleagues on the topic, proceedings and planned outputs of the Oslo workshop helmed by @sidsareen.bsky.social and Sirkku Juhola under www.cost-transformers.eu. sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...

Way cool.

New Essay by @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues: "Towards dynamic evaluations: Assessing the politics of Stavanger’s free public transport experiment" journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Double whammy and the power of cascading effects to amplify system risks.

Common wealth, not "walling in and walling out", argues Carmen Mapis in the Frostian tradition of 'Mending wall' in this op-ed against luxury privatisation of Norwegian nature: www.nrk.no/ytring/hygge.... 'Hyggeplyndring' is a cheeky coinage riffing off of 'hytteplyndring' to drive home a key point!

Terrifyingly fascinating, reminding us that energy access is among the most fundamental aspects of our societies. Useful thread, a real-time info service.

Days of our lives, in increasing frequency going swiftly forward.

Going into the weekend tomorrow morning after closing out the final hours of this epic PhD course with @empoweredfutures.bsky.social - a terrific group of participants who've stayed fully engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience this has been, across glorious, generative surroundings!

Moving towards accountable advertising. Energy future battles are being fought in the cultural domain over the attention economy in this era of information overload shaping perceptions and politics.

Have a nice weekend! Do have a listen to this pod with my thoughts on Norway's energy future, Beyond Oil and more, for the Stories for the Future podcast thanks to @vklavenes.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social

It was a truly wonderful start to our PhD course across Oslo and Rjukan this week, and the cherry tree at @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social was in full bloom for the group photo after a fjord swim :) a treat to engage with this perceptive group of participants!

Highly recommended springtime reading as we pull out the weeds and nurture the saplings to birth the futures we desire.

Crony capitalism without a functional separation of powers means a state is not run along democratic lines and a despot can help himself to the spoils while his cheerleaders applaud.

Cold at home in Norway: a third of tenants (about 20% are tenants), a sixth of the remaining 80% who are homeowners. Energy poverty is one of the most unrecognised problems in our energy-rich country. Right up there with energy elitism and fossil fuel favouritism in energy policy and energy finance.

A clear case being made for changed priorities in the Norwegian energy system, with much more attention to heating. The same applies for a priority to solar that politicians haven't understood, as they're content to subsidise tariffs as a populist measure that disrupts timely future energy finance.

Great to see a city take a timely initiative to gather momentum on low-carbon energy transitions! @oslokommune.bsky.social welcomes a large mixed audience to its third annual energy conference, with a focus on a zero emission city and future energy systems. Congrats, @heidisorensenoslo.bsky.social!

So, @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social calls it "Machiavellian neo-Mercantilist capitalism", @jksteinberger.bsky.social "cataclysm capitalism", I'm going with "nihilistic resource grab on steroids". This evil makes nobody happy over time, perpetrators included. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Ah, birdsong, as spring softly glides over @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social, its every touch a blessing old as time.

Based take.

Tre innlegg fra Nils Klim-symposiet: •"Reflektere og handle", av Siddharth Sareen, Nils-Klim-prisvinner 2024. •"Styringskapasitet for urbane lavkarbonfremtider", av Harald Rohracher. •"Mot en bærekraftig fremtid for alle", av Mariel Cristina Aguilar-Støen. •"Energi i endring", av Andy Stirling.

I seneste nummer av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift publiseres hele fire oversatte tekster fra Holberguken 2024 (betalingsmur): • Holbergforelesningen "Det jordiske fellesskap", av Achille Mbembe, mottager av Holbergprisen 2024. 1/

Last June, I gave a lecture at the Nils Klim Prize seminar in the University of Bergen Aula 'Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact' (thanks, @holbergprize.bsky.social!). That has now been translated to Norwegian and published in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift today: www.scup.com/eprint/DZW5Z...

My latest in Norwegian media @altinget.bsky.social: why energy transformation must advance public urban space and overcome automobile dependence. www.altinget.no/klima/artikk... @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social

A masterclass by @booker.senate.gov on how to take the floor and stand up for what's right by speaking truth to power. Warm applause when he yielded the floor after over 25 hours.

We're being treated to a masterclass in island community energy and transition dynamics here at Stromness on Orkney. The views are quite alright, too! Thanks to our Research Council of Norway funded @empoweredfutures.bsky.social

A memorable start to our field excursion on the Orkney islands with the @empoweredfutures.bsky.social research school. Days for intense exploration of archipelago energy landscapes.

A very memorable afternoon spent with visiting colleagues from Durham who gave terrific talks at @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social and especially lovely to catch up with Gavin Bridge at leisure. Academia is made fun and warm by the care and attention that we accord each other and to our common effort.

The most renowned experts on fascism in the US no longer see living in the US as feasible and are moving to better posts in CA.

It's not a competition anymore, to anyone not wearing oil tinted sunglasses to block the ascent of solar (and wind) from sight - it's clear as daylight. Those peddling other prospects are terrified by the future pinch on their slick fossil fuel wallets and the current pinch to their puny conscience.

When a superpower whose main claims to fame were cultural export and military might loses its cultural credibility to authoritarianism and acts sloppy with its bully power including turning on its own, then it stops being a superpower, leaving the floor to the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.

Excited to share that our paper is out in Sustainability Science! This research, conducted with @stefanb23.bsky.social and @saskapetrova.bsky.social, examines the role of agrivoltaics in shaping community-based energy governance and energy democracy in Japan Open access at: doi.org/10.1007/s116...

It's terrific to see the engagement during this TransformERS meeting in Koper, where our session asks "How do we engage with low-carbon energy transformation across sectors, at what scales through which actors?" - happy to be able to join from afar. Looking forward to hosting the Oslo workshop soon!