On Sept 23 in Brooklyn, @joobilly.bsky.social will present a selection of case studies from his new book, Building Postcarbon Futures, and moderate a discussion between @aldasky.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, and Keller Easterling. Register: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

CBH Talk | Building Postcarbon Futures | Brooklyn Public Library

In honor of Climate Week, join us for a conversation about what it will take to build a more just and sustainable future.

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Check out this thread, this book looks amazing 😻

Billy Fleming@joobilly.bsky.social · 2w ago

My brilliant book designer, Cristian Ordonez, just did a photoshoot for my beautiful child. I'm going to share one a day on here and remind you all to Preorder it soon! CUP: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Indie Bookshops: bookshop.org/beta-search?... Ama*on: a.co/d/0hnib2jU

"The energy transition is a material thing that requires us to balance the need to build as much stuff as has ever been built, as fast and as well as we have ever built anything, with the desire to practice democracy." landezine.com/building-pos...

Billy Fleming: We Need a Wider Aperture – Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine

Interview with Billy Fleming on landscape architecture’s service to capital and what design could become in a just postcarbon transition: moving beyond he…

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Billy Fleming (@joobilly.bsky.social) recently joined Monocle’s "The Urbanist" podcast to discuss his—and the Lincoln Institute's—new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions."

🎙️ "I think it grew in many ways out of a recognition that good design, good planning, good urbanism work happens all the time in all kinds of places, often by people who don't have professional credentials or perhaps professional associations..."

"Searchlight is essentially a blog of sub-Yglesias-level quality that takes in money from donors and produces news stories about why the left is wrong and Democrats must embrace moderation. There is an entire industry of this sort of thing in Washington. What a job!"

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Most people are not policy experts. Therefore it's easy to produce a poll that finds that most people do not advocate for any particular sophisticated policy position. Centrists use this as a weapon against progress, which is bad. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/what-polls...

I'm over in my favorite European design mag, Landezine, this week to talk about my new book (due out in 2 weeks!), design culture and capitalism, and the small but important role we might play in responding to the climate crisis. landezine.com/building-pos...

Billy Fleming: We Need a Wider Aperture – Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine

Interview with Billy Fleming on landscape architecture’s service to capital and what design could become in a just postcarbon transition: moving beyond he…

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My brilliant book designer, Cristian Ordonez, just did a photoshoot for my beautiful child. I'm going to share one a day on here and remind you all to Preorder it soon! CUP: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Indie Bookshops: bookshop.org/beta-search?... Ama*on: a.co/d/0hnib2jU

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that legalized, online gambling is one of the most socially destructive forces in society today.

Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

I'm on Monocle Radio this week to talk about my new book, Building Postcarbon Futures, and a few of the projects it features that show us how to manage land in ways that prevent the kinds of wildfires breaking out in Canada and the PNW right now. open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...

Billy Fleming on Designing a Sustainable Future

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Worst heat wave + El Nino in 150 years, cataclysmic wildfire outbreaks, data center overbuilds creating massive new price spikes and reliability risks, GHG emissions still growing. If only there was a way to talk about + address these obviously related issues at once.

There are so many problems with the data center overbuild. But two of them present particular problems for climate policy and the broader energy transition: the overbuild is driving up the price of clean energy infrastructure + stoking backlash to its construction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

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Starting to send some promo images around for the book, including these maps: 1. Tu Deh-Kah Geothermal Power Plant 2. MAMMOTH DAC Plant 3. Blackfeet Prairie Restoration Initiative 4. West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Project linktr.ee/billyfleming

Another preview of my new book. Advance copies are just beginning to arrive! www.linkedin.com/posts/lincol...

👀 Behind the scenes: Members of our editorial team took a field trip to the printer to watch our latest book, "Building Postcarbon Futures," come together. Written by Billy Fleming, the boo...

👀 Behind the scenes: Members of our editorial team took a field trip to the printer to watch our latest book, "Building Postcarbon Futures," come together. Written by Billy Fleming, the book guides r...

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Behind the scenes: Members of our editorial team took a field trip to the printer to watch our latest book, "Building Postcarbon Futures," come together. Written by @joobilly.bsky.social, the book guides readers through 29 efforts to build a more just, regenerative world across 6 continents.

I don't quite know how to say this without sounding insane, but my hometown (Fort Smith, AR) has a vampire running for Mayor this year: vampiremayor.com

Fort Smith Vampire Mayor Shayne McKinney - Fort Smith Mayor

Fort Smith needs to be ReVamped Learn about my plan to resurrect the city and give it an eternal future. We are going to get the government out of your business and make sure the government is working...

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It's halftime in Portugal v Spain, so a good time to note that it's hard to take reports like this seriously when (1) the author worked on the policy they are evaluating, (2) it is relegated to white paper commentary, and (3) it employs an atypical model. ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper...

This is why Iceland is the world's leading producer of low/postcarbon aluminum. It overbuilt its geothermal + hydroelectric power supply after the oil price crises of the 1970s. So, it recruited aluminum smelters to soak up the excess power and diversify its weak economy.

Kevin A@kba26.bsky.social · last mo.

Needing to build data centers just to soak up all the electricity you already generate is a really funny problem to have

I'm still not clear on what the energy crisis is in Spain. They have so much solar power that it can't be exploited by private equity firms or investor-owned utilities? People are getting paid to use solar at peak production times? This is bad now? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Spain Built Too Much Solar. Investors Want Out

After plowing $80 billion into renewables, the country has too much electricity on sunny days.

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Advance copies of my new book, Building Postcarbon Futures, are arriving this week and I'm losing my mind at my beautiful child. You can preorder from: Indie Bookshops: bookshop.org/beta-search?... Columbia U Press: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Hell: a.co/d/08TJw2Dx

The first copies of Building Postcarbon Futures should begin arriving this week. Here's a little preview from my editor, Jen Sigler: shorturl.at/AzfHd

Here’s a sneak-peak at "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions"—the book I’ve been working on with Billy Fleming (@joobilly) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Pol...

Here’s a sneak-peak at "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions"—the book I’ve been working on with Billy Fleming (@joobilly) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. On pr...

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For The Architect’s Newspaper I wrote about the Obama Center. Since people are mad I guess I should clarify now that this piece makes a distinction between two different versions of hope. And only one of those could cost $850 million. www.archpaper.com/2026/06/bara...

"Bad place" Ah ha ha haha ha It's the "Evil Online Empire" on my syllabi.

Billy Fleming@joobilly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The print run is just about done. Some shots from my editor + designer at the press (Cristian Ordonez and Jennifer Sigler) as "Building Postcarbon Futures" gets ready to ship. CUP: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?... Bad place: a.co/d/00iTLOir

The print run is just about done. Some shots from my editor + designer at the press (Cristian Ordonez and Jennifer Sigler) as "Building Postcarbon Futures" gets ready to ship. CUP: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?... Bad place: a.co/d/00iTLOir

"What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to thrive—in that world?" go.lincolninst.edu/webmail/1534...

"The Future Is Here: 29 Projects on 6 Continents Are Showing Us How to Tackle the Climate Crisis." go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

The Future Is Here: 29 Projects on 6 Continents Are Showing How to Tackle the Climate Crisis - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

With 29 richly illustrated projects across six continents, a new book shows readers a promising set of alternatives for building more just, decarbonized futures from the neighborhood to the continenta...

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One of the things that killed movies for such a long time (and is maybe, finally melting away) is an insistence that they accurately portray every single person, place, or idea within them. I think it's fine, good even, for artists to take creative license in their storytelling!

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The new movie Disclosure Day is all about a big, alien secret. But SETI researchers behind the updated postdetection protocol say they aren’t in the business of secrets

My new book, “Building Postcarbon Futures,” takes readers through 29 case studies spanning 6 continents that highlight the often-overlooked tactics being used to build a more just, decarbonized world. Published by @landpolicy.bsky.social : go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

Featuring 29 richly illustrated projects across 6 continents, "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions" shows readers a promising set of alternatives for building more just, decarbonized futures. go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...

The Future Is Here: 29 Projects on 6 Continents Are Showing How to Tackle the Climate Crisis - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

With 29 richly illustrated projects across six continents, a new book shows readers a promising set of alternatives for building more just, decarbonized futures from the neighborhood to the continenta...

go.lincolninst.edu

Responding to the climate crisis will require more than solar panels, a modest carbon tax, or another flood barrier. A new book from Billy Fleming (@joobilly.bsky.social) demonstrates that the climate policy, planning, & design professions have been looking in all the wrong places.