A few shots from my stellar grad students final review, “Building Postcarbon Futures”, focused on a pair of First Nation owned renewable energy systems in the sub-arctic region of Canada.

Friends in Ottawa: I'm heading to Carleton in March for the Canadian launch of my next book, "Building Postcarbon Futures." I'll have another 20 or so of these to share in 2026 a bit later this year. In the interim, I hope to see some of y'all in Ottawa! architecture.carleton.ca/event/forum-...

Some new spreads as the book heads into final proofing

I don't know how much stock to put in these projections, which are giving a lot of weight to a nominal decrease in the rate of carbon emissions growth (the actual emissions in 2024 were still higher than in 2023). I say this for a couple of reasons:

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

My favorite comment on the FT story

The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...

I want to push back on this message a bit for those thinking about pursuing a PhD. It is true that the academic job market sucks & that non-university research jobs—like mine—are unfortunately becoming rarer. But it is also true that a PhD program provides an unparalleled opportunity for many.

I’d like to amplify others’ pleas to *please* acknowledge and build upon the work of librarians and other organizers — @heykellyjensen.bsky.social, @tasslyn.bsky.social, @everylibrary.bsky.social, et al — who’ve been tracking *all of this* and developing expertise for YEARS.

NEW: It would have been one of the world's largest photovoltaic power plants. Now it's canceled [gift link]

Bloomberg has done a deep dive on the impacts of data centers on affordability of electricity. Analyzing data from 25,000 nodes used by seven regional transmission authorities, it finds data centers are causing large and rapid rate increases. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Some test spreads from the new book (Building Postcarbon Futures)

Clinton era triangulation might be the most enduring idea in American politics (and one with little to no evidence of success).

Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect known for "sponge cities," has died in a plane crash in Brazil

We have reached the page proofing phase of my next book (but not the image captions phase)

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

A few more cover art options

Hey Canada, ready to get serious about fighting fascism? Then let's go!! So proud of Avi. See you out there...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Does anyone still care about hydrogen? Globally, 75% of "low-carbon" hydrogen production is or will be electrolysis, while 25% is made from fossils. The US ratio is exactly flipped. Like in other areas, the US is pursuing an antiquated and dirty technology future while the world moves on.

And in case it's of interest, I taught a whole Spring 2024 class about Local Media, and I've got an open-access website (as I do for all of my classes :) localmedia.wordsinspace.net/spring2024/

My newest #opensource article, in @natureandspace.bsky.social is based on 7 years of research, following the development of ideas of nature from threat, to tool to threatened. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

One extremely niche thing I wish I had time to write about involves the Kawhi Leonard scandal (a fraudulent tree planting company used to circumvent the NBA Salary cap) and its connection to the design industry scam that is nature based solutions + natural carbon sequestration.

I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️

ESRI, maker of ArcGIS, is one of the main sponsors of the fascist Homeland Security Conference taking place in DC right now. #greensky nationalhomelandsecurity.org/program/2025...

We have reached the layout stage

I cannot believe a new semester begins today

Have reached the stage where we’re kicking around some cover art concepts (my fav so far)

If you wouldn't be willing to let it close / stop existing / whatever, you already own the liability. Don't sell the profit.

Wrapping up the image selects for my next book this week (settling in around 350). Here are a few from the Tu Deh-Kah Geothermal Power plant, a new energy project owned and operated by the Fort Nelson First Nation as part of Canada's truth + reconciliation process.

Have reached the stage of my next book where I am drafting the acknowledgments. Turns out spending 8 years on a project that results in ~600 pages of content required a lot of support. Still kind of shocked that so many people invested so much in it/me.

Checking in on the ACSA's flagship academic journal (JAE) to see that (1) there's still no editorial board to replace us, (2) they're running a MAGA issue in place of Palestine, (3) they're trying to kill the journal's circulation, and (4) no one their board seems to care?

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The NYT's Zohran Mamdani hit piece crosses a line for me as a journalist. here's @lopatto.bsky.social's clear-eyed take on the genuine travesty of it all www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

I think everyone just needs to accept that the golden era of Twitter ended years ago, nothing is coming to replace it, and we should all just spend time on whichever insufferable site(s) we want.

Our streets are overflowing with hot, wet garbage and Cherelle Parker is giving herself and her friends 30%+ pay raises for do-nothing jobs. Someone give Kim some space to write about the workers of DC 33 who keep Philly running.

Doing some final image selection for my next book and cannot stop staring at this beautiful shot of a Blackfoot logging crew from 1940

Am just noticing that Philly’s temporary trash collection sites are basically just parks. So, we’re all gonna be piling up garbage in the city’s parks while Cherelle Parker refuses to give a new contract to DC 33?

Trying to imagine Debra Messing conjuring up a 9 or 10 year old Zohran Mamdani watching Hey Arnold! or Ahhhh! Real Monsters before going outside to celebrate 9/11.

10/10 day

I assume everyone in London would literally die if they had to spend this week in Philadelphia

The reason they’re doing this is because it works. It sold the war in Iraq and continued to sway Hollywood/popular culture a decade after—Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty glamorized and completely fabricated the success of the CIA’s torture program, and won awards for it.

Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

23 years later and we’re getting the same fake WMD intelligence briefing on all the networks.

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Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

Back from a week in the South Colorado backcountry

New article! Covers the lessons learned thus far in a multi-year, community-inspired studio series I've been teaching since 2022. The article discusses the challenges of using new participatory frameworks in studio pedagogy. www.jaeonline.org/issue-articl...

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