Chaos in the Air • Drew Pendergrass
Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.
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Economies of Breath • Mae Losasso
On the invention of the environment and the slow violence of the respiratory economy.
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A Familiar Disaster • Adrienne Buller, David Wallace-Wells
A conversation on the state of the climate movement, the paralysis of the Democratic party and the meaning of catastrophe.
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Producing the Climate • Natasha Heenan
To produce a new climate in the ruins of the old, for ourselves and for the generations that will follow, we need a politics of climate repair.
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Delayed Arrival • Vera Huwe
The aviation industry was built through war and state power—around politics, in other words. Building something else will be political, too.
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Talking About the Weather • Cecilia Rikap
Through its ownership of cloud-computing services, Big Tech is setting the terms for how we understand the climate crisis—and how we respond.
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Capacity Returns • Jeremy Wallace
Both the American and Chinese varieties of capitalism are awash in successes and failures. Decarbonizing demands that we use the best of both.
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A Troubled Blue Sky • Ségolène Ragu, Amélie David
In Beirut, financial turmoil and military assualt have made access to energy uneven, and left the air thick with diesel. Now, residents are building their own clean energy future.
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Toxic Soup • Adam Almeida
As logistics, waste and gentrification converge in the South Bronx, communities have paid the price. Now, residents are fighting back, and modelling a different kind of city.
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Why Climate Politics Still Matter • Casey A. Williams
Amidst geopolitical upheaval, many see hopeful signs for renewed momentum on decarbonization. But what if this optimism actually amounts to a surrender?
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All That Is Solid • Adrienne Buller, John Merrick
Introducing Issue #3: AIRBORNE
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North Sea Nationalisms • Ewan Gibbs
Fantasies of Britain’s past continue to shape the country's energy politics and illusions.