As many have readily pointed out, today’s much deserved Nobel a prize is an indictment of traditional academic metrics for promotion/advancement. I hope it forces the academy to rethink how it supports and promotes researchers. billypenn.com/2020/12/29/uni…

This week, the The McHarg Center is hosting an incredible lineup of practitioners from around the world who are dealing with climate change and the Sixth Extinction for 'Mega Eco: A Symposium on Very Large Landscape Projects'. eventbrite.com/e/mega-eco-pro…

Reading Nicholas Pevzner and colleagues' 'Beyond the Axe: Interdisciplinary approaches towards an urban silviculture' this morning.

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Next month, The McHarg Center is hosting charles waldheim, Jeffrey Nesbit, Shannon Mattern, AL McCullough, Robert Pietrusko (and me) for a discussion of our various contributions to a new book, Technical Lands (Charles and Jeffrey are its editors).

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I'm joining María Arquero de Alarcón (UM Taubman College), Mona El Khafif (@UVaSARC), + Alejandra Bosch (@uc_chile) next month to keynote their fabulous 'POWERING THE JUST GLOBAL ENERGY TRANSITION: A LITHIUM TRILOGY' symposium.

It's online! Register here: lithiumterritories.net/symposium

Writing about Fletcher's Ice Island (Iceberg T-3) this morning (a very large iceberg that drifted around the Arctic Circle as a joint military-scientific research station in the 1950s).

Revisting Cooper's 'Spatializing Reparations.'

'mapping...and visualizing the land are key components in ensuring that decolonization is not a metaphor but a series of legal, political, social, and cultural actions in which reparations materialize...'

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Excited to share the lineup of amazing speakers for 'At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing' @UICSoA on October 19-20. Attendance is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register at buff.ly/3POWhWn.

#AtHomewiththeCollective

Also, come hang out with Shannon Mattern, charles waldheim, Robert Pietrusko, and Jeffrey Nesbitt for Weitzman School of Design at Penn's 'Technical Lands' book launch next month: design.upenn.edu/events/technic…

I'm headed to Montreal this week and am taking any/all recommendations for food, drinks, etc.

I'm guest editing an issue of JAE with Rania Ghosn on 'Worlding. Energy. Transitions.' Papers are due in February and we're looking for a wiiiiide range of materials.

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i wrote an essay for Hammer & Hope! this piece was very hard to write. i understand that a lot of what i criticize in this piece is the result of strict racism and constraints in our current system.
and i didn’t want it to seem like i was coming at ppl.

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mfw the faculty are losing it over chatgpt
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Important open letter, signed by 27 writers and design professions, about the stagnant pay rates for freelance writers covering #Architecture and the #BuildEnvironment . Lisa Chamberlain JoeBilly mark lamster Zach Mortice Ian Volner kate wagner (castle era) mimi zeiger bit.ly/3EhTZZ4

It looks like this is going to be a story we see play out over and over again.

Massachusetts public transport agreed to a new contract with its bus driver union, with higher starting pay. And now it's seeing a surge of applications.

mass.streetsblog.org/2023/08/25/new…

A reminder for folks careening into the start of another semester:

I'm co-editing the next issue of JAE with Rania Ghosn, titled 'Worlding an Energy Transition'. We're looking for an absurdly wide range of contributions. You can find the full call below.

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“Listen closely and you can hear the sound of the great consensus machine whirring to life as it cranks out another verdict on the way the world works.” On whether we are really entering a 'post-neoliberal' era, get the new issue of Dissent!

I'm wrapping up a syllabus for this fall's studio. We'll go back to South Greenland to deal w/questions of extant radioactive waste, food systems in a thawing landscape, and long-term sovereignty and resource development via glacial flour. Draft is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1ok…

Out Today - A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform

Dustin Mulvaney & I argue that we don't need to cut red tape to accelerate renewables. We need:

- way more coordination and planning
- enhanced community participation + consent
- a mandated transition

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Historic. Ecuadorians voted to keep oil underground in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, result of over a decade of movement pressure. A climate, enviro & Indigenous victory. And they voted to ban mining in a UNESCO biosphere in the country’s north primicias.ec/noticias/elecc…