This week, I'm on the Cultures of Energy Podcast with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social to talk about my new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures." open.spotify.com/episode/1JEm...

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New episode of Cultures of Energy looking at initiatives around the world to design & build postcarbon futures. Lots to inspire the imagination (and a few cautionary tales to beware). Our guide through these marvels is the one and only Billy Fleming. Please listen & share! tinyurl.com/94z8tauz

Cultures of Energy: 261 - Building Postcarbon Futures (feat. Billy Fleming)

The Queen and King of Jetlag recount tales of airplane toilets, surprise geckos and AI abominations on this week’s episode. Then (16:32) Billy Fleming saves the podcast by joining us to talk about his...

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New Cultures of Energy podcast! We speak with Mona Damluji about her book Pipeline Cinema and the entanglement of material infrastructures of energy with cultural infrastructures of media. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/5ynfxvyu

Cultures of Energy: 260 - Pipeline Cinema (feat. Mona Damluji)

Your cohosts’ electric summer adventure has brought them to Thailand! Dominic wonders if he will be allowed to eat Thai spicy food and Cymene reports about feeding baby elephants. Then (13:44) we...

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It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

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Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

New Cultures of Energy pod! We speak with Ryan Cecil Jobson about his fascinating work in Trinidad and how petrostates try to masquerade their way into the future. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/ytekzctk

Cultures of Energy: 259 - Petrostates (feat. Ryan Cecil Jobson)

The China adventure continues for your two co-hosts. Cymene and Dominic report from Zhangzhou, a small city of five million in Fujian province, and talk about party hotel life and what might have been...

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UK Sales of Electric Vehicles Just Overtook Petrol Cars for the First Time cleantechnica.com/2026/06/26/u...

UK Sales of Electric Vehicles Just Overtook Petrol Cars for the First Time - CleanTechnica

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, accord...

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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We investigate the historic battle against smog in Los Angeles and what lessons can be learned for climate action today. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/2nd7nam9

NEW ARTICLE Rethinking Sister Cities for the Anthropocene: Cape Town and Reykjavik ― A Reflective Dialogue AUTHORS Cymene Howe | @cymene.bsky.social Dominic Boyer | @dominicboyer.bsky.social Sólveig Ásta Sigurðardóttir Magnús Örn Agnesar-Sigurðsson Nikiwe Solomon doi.org/10.7764/dise...

New Cultures of Energy podcast! We sit down with the ever-wise Timothy Mitchell to talk about his latest opus, The Alibi of Capital. Please listen & share! tinyurl.com/3js275dn

Cultures of Energy: 257 - The Alibi of Capital (feat. Timothy Mitchell)

It’s World Cup season and so your co-hosts deliver their first ever sports corner. And then (9:38) drum roll please, we welcome the one and only Tim Mitchell back to the podcast to talk about his late...

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A data center boom is coming to Texas. See where they’re going.

A Texas Tribune analysis identified at least 248 planned data center projects. Opponents fear the projects will spike Texans’ electric bills and make the grid less reliable. But industry representativ...

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"Grandpa, what did it feel like living through the 2020s?"

It was fun chatting with Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe on their Cultures of Energy podcast! Elizabeth Monoian and I talk about the early days of LAGI and the importance of design, art, and community co-creation to the deployment of climate solutions. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social

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New Cultures of Energy pod! We speak with the brilliant minds behind the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). As a unique kind of public art enterprise, LAGI design competitions help inspire more ecologically and socially attuned modes of futurism. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/45wdccwy

New Cultures of Energy pod! We speak with the brilliant minds behind the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). As a unique kind of public art enterprise, LAGI design competitions help inspire more ecologically and socially attuned modes of futurism. Please listen and share! tinyurl.com/45wdccwy

Cultures of Energy: 256 - Land Art Generator (feat. Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian)

Cymene goes shopping with Beyoncé in this episode’s dream sequence and if that weren’t dreamy enough your co-hosts also break down the new film, Backrooms. Then (17:01) we welcome and to the podcast...

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Today we learn of another new nuclear company going public to cash in on the datacenter hype. If all goes as planned they will have a commercial reactor by 2032. Their reactors would produce 1/5 of a gigawatt. Meanwhile, today, solar adds 1 gigawatt of capacity every day by noon.

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast featuring Dr. Ciruce Mohavedi-Lankarani and his new book Accelerant and what it tells us abt how petroleum became central to Iranian nationalism. A must-read book. Please listen & share! tinyurl.com/bdydm3u5 @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 255 - Accelerant (feat. Ciruce Mohavedi-Lankarani)

Dominic and Cymene eat crepes, share limericks and wonder whether dogs and rabbits might hold the secret to world peace on this week’s episode. Then (13:09) we welcome to the pod to talk about his ne...

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New episode of Cultures of Energy! We're talking with Fernando Ortiz-Moya about shrinking cities and different ways to think about urban regeneration (outside the growth-is-always-good paradigm). Please listen and share with that special urbanist in your life :) tinyurl.com/yc3rpcx5

Cultures of Energy: 254 - Shrinking Cities (feat. Fernando Ortiz-Moya)

Cymene and Dominic talk about shrinky dinks, tiny sweaters, miniaturized submarines and during this week’s intro segment. Then (12:12) we welcome to the conversation to talk about his excellent new ...

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really enjoyed this conversation with Rafico and esp his take on drifting as a method

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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Rafico Ruiz joins us to talk drifting, temperate privilege and global warming as a a new settler in the Arctic. cenhs.libsyn.com/231-drifting...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! A deep dive into disappearing waste w/ Dan Sosna. We talk abt wastepicking as "quiet sustainability," the embodied reality of circular economy & tech futurists penchant for genocidal thinking. tinyurl.com/4bzk99b7 @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 253 - Disappearing Waste (feat. Dan Sosna)

Dominic and Cymene marvel at April snow and the ice cream stylings of Ben and Jerry. Then (8:28) we welcome to the podcast to discuss his new book, (Berghahn, 2026). We dive into his background in a...

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This week is the 10th anniversary of the Houston’s Tax Day floods. The worst of the storm hit in rural Waller County. But the impact was terrible: cows drowned in their pastures. At CFAR we’ve studied what if that storm hit urban Houston instead. The results are a wake up call: tinyurl.com/2pmbu4re

What if Texas’ destructive Tax Day flood had centered on inner Houston instead? It’s why cities should plan for the improbable

Computer models of the storm hitting different areas show how much damage is possible, yet flood maps still focus on where flooding is most likely instead.

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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We chat with Casper Bruun Jensen about his new volume, Southern Anthropocenes, cosmopolitics, utopias and much more! tinyurl.com/4xcrbzc6

Cultures of Energy: 252 - Southern Anthropocenes (feat. Casper Bruun Jensen)

Cymene and Dominic discuss what happened when ten art school kids were given a disney princess baking challenge on this week’s episode of the podcast. Then (14:48) we welcome Casper Bruun Jensen to th...

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#NoKings #HTX biggest one yet!

New Cultures of Energy pod! We talk with brilliant multimedia artist Zina Saro-Wiwa about deep listening, masquerade, the voice of oil, the resilience of Ogoni culture, landscape and foodways and so much more. tinyurl.com/3kmu4ssr @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 251 - Deep Listening (feat. Zina Saro-Wiwa)

Cymene and Dominic lament what is happening in Iran and explore what kinds of dogs they would be on this episode of the podcast. Then (15:47) we welcome to the podcast the amazing multitalented multim...

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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk energy democracy and the politics of dealing with recalcitrant utilities together w/ Nikki Luke! Listen & enjoy to this, the 250th episode of this humble podcast. @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4nxnanfn

Cultures of Energy: 250 - Energy Democracy (feat. Nikki Luke)

Dominic and Cymene celebrate the 250th episode of the podcast with tales of steamy avian encounter. And then (16:14) we welcome Nikki Luke to the podcast, author of the brand-new book (MIT Press, 20...

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This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

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Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and listening to) from January! niche-canada.org/2026/02/12/e... #envhist

New ep. of Cultures of Energy w/ Astrida Neimanis & Jennifer Hamilton & their brilliant new book "How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change." Ecofeminism, back & better than ever. Pls listen/share! tinyurl.com/5vatahmx @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

Cultures of Energy: 249 - Weathering (feat. Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton)

Dominic and Cymene talk about their Cathostant (or is it Protelic?) families in this week’s intro segment. And then (11:59) we are thrilled to be joined by and to discuss their work as the Weatherin...

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If you're in a city under seige by ICE, and you'd like a stack of 25-50 posters to distribute, message assistant@mollycrabapple.com and we will hook you up

raszak76@raszak76.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Got a stack of dope posters from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and her crew. Looking forward to distributing…

1/ Everyone’s talking about AI datacenters needing more power. But the real problem isn’t just how much power they use. It’s how they use it. Off-grid data centers won’t work, so most are looking at hybrid approaches.

Insight into what is happening to people the regime deports. And blue state pension funds are financing this. Possibly unwittingly. So let them know! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler

A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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A few hours after Bad Bunny sings among electrical poles maintainers, our conversation with @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social is out. Coincidence? I think not. (Thank you both!) cenhs.libsyn.com/248-maintena...

Cultures of Energy: 248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille)

Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welcome and to the podcast to dis...

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While everyone else is celebrating orchestrated violence and planned obsolescence on Super Bowl Sunday, why not turn to the new episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast which is all about care, maintenance & repair :) @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3phnedrh

Cultures of Energy: 248 - Maintenance & Repair (feat. Jérôme Denis & David Pontille)

Cymene and Dominic share pirate tales from the Sundance Film Festival and reimagine Heated Rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as the lead lovers. Then (15:34) we welcome and to the podcast to dis...

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