Billy Fleming
@joobilly.bsky.social
Professor @ Temple. Founding Strategic co-director @cplusc.bsky.social.; Founding (ex-) Director, McHarg Center.
Books:
Design With Nature Now (Lincoln)
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation (Island Press)
Building Postcarbon Futures (exp 2026)
Books:
Design With Nature Now (Lincoln)
A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation (Island Press)
Building Postcarbon Futures (exp 2026)
Always love going to reception, meeting some big name practitioner or scholar and their partner, and hearing they met while one was an intern/student. Usually while one was married. Happens like 5x a year.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Always love going to reception, meeting some big name practitioner or scholar and their partner, and hearing they met while one was an intern/student. Usually while one was married. Happens like 5x a year.
other industries seeking to greenwash their operations or attain a new social license for growing or maintaining their carbon emissions. The late, great Karen Bakker wrote about it in the context of Canada's energy transition through the frame of "recarbonization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Landscapes of Recarbonization: Carbon Neutrality, Settler Colonialism, and Cumulative Environmental Effects in the Peace River Region, Canada
Contemporary discourses of net-zero decarbonization (also referred to as carbon neutrality) routinely overlook the landscape transformations required to offset carbon emissions. Conventional analys...
www.tandfonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
other industries seeking to greenwash their operations or attain a new social license for growing or maintaining their carbon emissions. The late, great Karen Bakker wrote about it in the context of Canada's energy transition through the frame of "recarbonization" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The other is that it's far too early to know how much the world's (and especially the United States') supply-side only push on renewables is going to work. Anecdotally, I can point to a dozen or so projects providing massive new capacity that are being used by data centers, the FF industry, and...
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The other is that it's far too early to know how much the world's (and especially the United States') supply-side only push on renewables is going to work. Anecdotally, I can point to a dozen or so projects providing massive new capacity that are being used by data centers, the FF industry, and...
These models are rarely accurate, and they are never precise. We've been under-estimating emissions growth in IAMs via the IPCC for as long as we've been making them. Every worst-case scenario that's published is replaced within months with a new, much worse case.
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
These models are rarely accurate, and they are never precise. We've been under-estimating emissions growth in IAMs via the IPCC for as long as we've been making them. Every worst-case scenario that's published is replaced within months with a new, much worse case.
I thought it was mostly because the rebrand was pushed through without board approval (or even notice)?
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I thought it was mostly because the rebrand was pushed through without board approval (or even notice)?
v jealous of this
September 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
v jealous of this
Been asking funders for support in this area for ages. A few are good on it (JPB, Summit, Kresge, Knight). But the big ones are still operating in the late 1990s.
September 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Been asking funders for support in this area for ages. A few are good on it (JPB, Summit, Kresge, Knight). But the big ones are still operating in the late 1990s.