Posts by Billy Fleming
I'm starting a new project with my friend, Douglas Robb, that aims to document and better understand a process we refer to as "recarbonization", or the sites and systems driving a growth in emissions and reindustrialization alongside growth in renewable energy supply.
recarbonization.cargo.site
We're now soliciting proposals for a symposium + book project, with draft abstracts due June 19th for consideration. recarbonization.cargo.site
In it, we aim to document, assess, and critically investigate the myriad ways in which the fossil fuel industry, big tech, and other heavy industries are erecting new barriers to the energy transition and climate action. recarbonization.cargo.site
This socioecological fix is a feature of net-zero strategies, where recarbonization operates as a spatial fix for contemporary capitalism, displacing the contradictions of decarbonization across territories, infrastructures, and ecosystems rather than resolving them. recarbonization.cargo.site
This network includes data centers, aluminum and cement manufacturing facilities built or retrofitted to certify their products as green, and by the fossil fuel industry as it seeks new means of legitimizing its operations and expansion amidst calls for decarbonization. recarbonization.cargo.site
I'm starting a new project with my friend, Douglas Robb, that aims to document and better understand a process we refer to as "recarbonization", or the sites and systems driving a growth in emissions and reindustrialization alongside growth in renewable energy supply.
recarbonization.cargo.site
Highly recommend building a garden with your neighbors
wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Well, @cplusc.bsky.social is once again doing the coolest shit on climate that you've ever seen!
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
it's the universe telling me to drink more coffee before posting
Proofreading*
finally, mercifully, doing the last proofre and pagination for my book. A few shots of spreads for the field notes section
NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative
In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.
What a glorious day! Thanks to @johnduda.bsky.social and Meg from @redemmas.org for putting together an incredible climate conference. The book fest brought together a kick ass ecosocialist crew @alybatt.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social among others
Today! @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @nikifabs2024.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social + local climate organizers coming through 4 a bookfest on capitalism & the climate crisis!
End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis. Saturday, April 4th 12pm-9pm
I'm super stoked to be speaking at this event at @redemmas.org mas.org in Baltimore on Saturday, alongside @triofrancos.bsky.social y.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social
C'mon by! It's gonna be a great time
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I'm heading to Baltimore this weekend for a stellar "Climate and Capitalism" Book festival at @redemmas.org.
Come hangout w/me, @triofrancos.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social, @johnduda.bsky.social, @megberkobien.bsky.social on Saturday!
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And wrapping things up at 6:30 will be @jmhattem.bsky.social in conversation with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social on "Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration"
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At 5:30, after a brief intermission, we'll have @alybatt.bsky.social on "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature"
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Then at 4pm, it's @triofrancos.bsky.social talking with @nikifabs2024.bsky.social about "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"
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At 3pm, @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social is in conversation with @robbieshilliam.bsky.social on "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis"
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We've got an amazing one day of festival of new books on the the climate crisis coming up on Saturday, April 4th...
Free talks kick off at 2pm with @joobilly.bsky.social talking about "Building Postcarbon Futures"
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This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d
The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths
(1) Gulf Kings
(2) Financial meltdown
(3) AI tech oligarchs
(4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions
Read our Polycrisis Dispatch:
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Apparently, an author wrapping up a book that is similar in theme to mine has been going through my exact list of blurbers to ask them to do endorse theirs too.
Is it just me, or is this extremely corny/weird?
New neighbor in South Philly
now that I have a pub date for my book, I guess it’s time to revive this account a bit.
Coming 4/4: End Papers—our mini-book fest on the climate crisis & capitalism, w/@triofrancos.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social + more TBA
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we worked with reimagine! stellar folks there