This report asks: “What community concerns surround AI data center projects that have been canceled, stalled, or withdrawn?” and “What do the demographic and environmental profiles of those communities tell us about the broader conditions under which AI data center development is meeting resistance?”
As co-founders of Helix, Maya and Mica Caine are strategists whose fashion company reimagines clothing as a shared civic resource and advances regenerative, place-based systems of stewardship and circularity.
“I spend a lot of time thinking about data centers: the actual, physical buildings consuming water and electricity across the planet. But I also keep thinking about something that seems trivial by comparison: why are the CEOs of all-powerful tech companies so cringe?”
Sanjana Paul has released a new simulation that allows participants to engage in multi-party negotiations around a proposed data-center. Using eight different roles, participants explore the implications of energy, water, community benefits...
“In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won.”
Host David Roberts and Sarah “discuss the “accidental geoengineering” experiment of reducing shipping aerosols, the newfound ability to pinpoint methane leaks from space, and the legal implications of being able to attribute financial losses to climate change.”
In this blog and research paper, the authors argue that “dominant American property regimes fundamentally constrain attempts to plan for and achieve socially just and ecologically reparative adaptation.”
The Invested In Climate Podcast has teamed up with Shereen D’Souza, as Climate Lead for the Skyline Foundation to put on a series of conversations on climate philanthropy. Shereen is featured in the first episode of the series speaking...
Tracey shares her thoughts on addressing the climate crisis by centering Indigenous knowledge, land rights and leadership on the Biophilic Solutions podcast.
What happens to floodplain buyout sites after demolition of structures? Does ecological restoration or reconciliation of the floodplain occur? By what criteria should we assess what is on the site? Under what conditions do government programs promote more ecologically dynamic land management?
