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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲

@laurengifford.bsky.social

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Geographer. Climate and carbon governance. Carbon markets, removal, offsets, climate tech, justice. 🌱🌎🌲 www.laurengifford.net

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Nov 1

📢🌎 New *open access* article out now!
“Defining Climate Finance Justice: Critical Geographies of Justice Amid Financialized Climate Action” is a deep literature review that explores the unique complexities around climate finance and justice concerns.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Defining Climate Finance Justice: Critical Geographies of Justice Amid Financialized Climate Action

Given the exponential growth in financial investments to support climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly shaped as capital flows from the Global North to the Global South, an incredib...

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 11h

Curious how the silica dust impacting coal miner health compares to the silicate minerals used in enhanced rock weathering. Anyone have ideas?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 15h

Matt, this is a beautiful remembrance. So kind to include all Jeff’s friends. It shows what a deep community he cultivated throughout his days. 💚

Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Sarah Tooley had a badass response to this in her DC neighborhood in 2009. She made such a stir that it was a cover story in the city paper. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/2276...

Bench Warfare

For roughly a year, artist Sarah Tooley had observed people coming and going from the green benches at the tiny triangular park at 14th and Ogden Streets in Columbia Heights. Through her back bedroom ...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 7d

Disasters in remote Alaska are not like disasters anywhere in the lower 48 states..While East Coast homeowners recovering from a nor’easter..can run to Home Depot for supplies or drive to a hotel if their home floods, none of that exists in remote Native villages" theconversation.com/typhoon-leav...

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 9d

As universities embrace AI, corporate influence on research, governance and values is growing.

What happens when higher ed’s pursuit of tech prestige meets Silicon Valley’s profit motives?

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Why higher ed’s AI rush could put corporate interests over public service and independence

Higher education’s embrace of AI reveals deeper trends in institutional priorities − and what’s at risk.

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Eos @eos.org · 13d

A corny climate action might benefit farmers—if they invest.

New research from Mark Mba-Wright @ IowaStateU Bioeconomy Institute, input from Sarah Sellars @sdstate.bsky.social and @laurengifford.bsky.social @soilcarbon-csu.bsky.social, story by @sarahderouin.com

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How Might Leftover Corn Stalks Halt Fugitive Carbon? - Eos

Bio-oil made from plant waste could help limit carbon emissions from orphaned oil and gas wells. But would it help or hinder farmers’ bottom line?

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 23d

Geographers, If you our headed to #AAG2026, consider our CFP:
"Surfaces and Subsurfaces as Spaces of Climate Action" organized by Chris Knudson, Gabby Subia Smith + me. Please share.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@cape-aag.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

AAG 2026 CFP

2026 AAG Annual Meeting - San Francisco, California March 17, 2026 – March 21, 2026 CFP – submissions due October 10, 2025 In-Person session Lauren Gifford, Colorado State University Gabriella Subia...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 27d

New paper! On the precarious labor at the end of the solar commodity chain, and the production of value from solar waste in India.

Shards of light: Ruination, pollution, and the lived experience of solar waste in India.
☀️🔌💡 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpUo7tZ6a...

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 27d

Crossing a New York City street and almost bumped right into @davidho.bsky.social on a City Bike.
Climate Week is so much fun!

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got this sent to me from a Pascua Yaqui undergraduate student in Tucson who is in a soils class this semester. She said it was so meaningful to see not only women but someone from her tribe up there. I just about cried. This work matters. We matter ❤️🤍💙

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Sep 10

Check out our team’s new paper about reducing nitrogen losses in US row-crop agriculture, by @mikebadzmierowski.bsky.social.

Nitrogen is essential for crop production, but its overuse reduces air and water quality and emits potent GHGs. This paper examines solutions.

www.wri.org/research/red...

Reducing Nitrogen Losses in US Row-Crop Agriculture: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Pathways

Mike Badzmierowski

Executive Summary
Highlights
• Nitrogen is essential for crop production, but its excessive use leads to significant air- and water-borne environmental losses. Nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas (GHG) 273 times more potent than carbon dioxide and the current leading contributor to ozone depletion, is released particularly from over-applied nitrogen. The costs of agricultural nitrogen pollution in the United States likely surpass US$200 billion, primarily due to its impact on air and water quality.
• The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests that half of US agricultural GHG emissions are nitrous oxide (EPA 2024). New measurements suggest EPA models underestimate emissions, particularly as rising temperatures may increase emission rates.
• Uniform application rates are inefficient due to variability within fields.
Reduced nitrogen rate applications through precision nitrogen manage-ment, leveraging on-farm trials, and improved irrigation are effective strategies for reducing nitrogen losses and fertilizer waste, thereby enhancing farmer profitability. Nitrification inhibitors are likely to be site- and time-dependent regarding their nitrogen loss potential.
• Implementing a "National Nitrogen Initiative" could help improve fertilizer use and boost farmer profitability. With just 24 percent of cropland contributing 63 percent of the nation's nitrogen surplus (Roy et al. 2021), the focus should start in "hotspot regions."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 23

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 23

After far too many years, I've got myself a new Guardian byline pic, very kindly taken pro bono by Nick Bowring. It was getting like The Picture of Dorian Gray in reverse.
Embrace the ravages of time!

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Sep 8

My dad just took this photo in Acadia National Park

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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · Sep 7

Is Carbon Capture the Same as #CarbonRemoval? 🏭

We answer this and other #FAQs about Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration 👉 bit.ly/3QIWpWl

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Sep 7

Trump abduction vehicle disguised as a soccer mom minivan on the DC streets, including "Future Jedi On Board" sticker
#bigballsgoonshow

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · Sep 5

New peer-reviewed paper documents massive lobbying by big oil & gas over 20 yrs to promote carbon, capture & storage, spending almost $1 Billion. CCS is a scam.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage

Analysis of U.S. federal lobbying disclosures from 2005 through 2024 identifies the fossil fuel sector as the primary force behind a multipronged $954…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Sep 4

Am I standing in front of the future, or the past? Given the amount of regressive climate and environmental policies, and pro fossil fuel incentives we’re seeing before us, I honestly don’t know.

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Sep 3

Seriously, what the hell is going on?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 2

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working

Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · Sep 1

This paper was accepted for publication in Geo: Geography and Environment this morning 🎉, but you can read it NOW as a preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Aug 28

There are images like this all over … Havana, Cuba. Banners of Castros face and militarized policy around the city.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Aug 28

Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable.

Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them?

These researchers say YES.

Read more:

A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them - Sustainability Science

Meeting the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to “well below 2 °C” requires a radical acceleration of action, as the global economy is decarbonising at least five times too slowly. Tipping point...

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · Aug 27

This morning: MPD and ATF conducted a massive paramilitary operation, with officers in masks and camo, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of DC within 500 yards of an elementary school while neighborhood children were heading to school.

On their third day of classes.

Masked armed men watch a mother and her children go to school.

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · Aug 21

In my free time (haha jk that doesn't exist) I think up topics for #AAG2026 sessions. Today's session that I think could be fun and interesting:
"Surfaces and subsurfaces as spaces of climate action."
Send me your soil CDR, your geological carbon storage, your geographies of geothermal!...