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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm heading to LA this week for a book launch with Alissa Walker, Jenny Jones, and the lovely folks at Terremoto. Come hangout with us and stay for the firm's ASLA afterparty. www.laforum.org/events/at-re...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Had a truly special night in Boulder to help launch my new book at The Trident

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm in Boulder this week for a series of events to help launch my new book, Building Postcarbon Futures. Stoked to see it--and this stellar group of contributors--finally in print. CUP: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... A*azon: cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin... Bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For all the Colorado folks on here: I'm kicking off my "Building Postcarbon Futures" book tour in Boulder next week. I'll be on campus w/environmental design on 9/9: calendar.colorado.edu/event/buildi... And at Trident Bookstore w/Phaedra Pezullo on 9/10: tridentcafe.com/events/2026/...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

www.archpaper.com/2026/08/buil...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m in @archpaper.com today, writing about my new book, the Super Nino summer(s), and the failure of the design professions to meet this moment of crisis. www.archpaper.com/2026/08/buil...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A map of Projecto ENLACE, owned and managed by the Cano Martin Pena Community Land Trust—the first CLT in the Caribbean, created through changes in Puerto Rican law to allow low-income residents in San Juan to control their neighborhood’s redevelopment and share in its proceeds.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A spread from the Ningxia Agrivoltaics Project in the Gobi of Northwest China--the largest project of its kind in the world, generating utility-scale solar and goji berries as part of an anti-desertification effort in the region.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A series of spreads documenting the Plurinational Observatory of the Andean Salt Flats

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A spread from the Africa Clean Energy Corridor project: an integrated, transcontinental energy project featuring long-range transmission infrastructure, geothermal/hydro/solar/wind generation projects, and a variety of other links between 21 nations involved in its development.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A map of the Tu Deh-Kah Geothermal project, showing the territory of the Fort Nelson First Nation, the oil and gas fields that surround them, and the provincial grid that it connects to.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The first project in the atlas: The Tu Deh-Kah Geothermal Plant, owned and operated by the Fort Nelson First Nation through a program developed during Canada's Truth and Reconciliation process.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A few notes on how the book's atlas came together (with a photo of Narsaq, Greenland, at the base of the Kvanefjeld critical mineral mine that's driving much of Trump's interest in the island).

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The first two spreads of the opening chapter

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

landezine.com/building-pos...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A mini-TOC for the "energy" section of the Atlas, featuring 11 projects that deal with collective ownership of the renewables, anti-extractivist movements that are now going on offense, and multi-functional energy landscapes like utility-scale agrivoltaics.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here's an image from the introduction to the book's atlas--a collection of 29 exemplary works of climate justice and energy democracy spanning 43 nations and 6 continents.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

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

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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

Prints of "Building Postcarbon Futures" coming off the press.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The case studies form its centerpiece, an atlas for building postcarbon futures, that is organized across themes of "urbanism", "land", and "energy". cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My new book, "Building Postcarbon Futures," is officially at the printer. cup.columbia.edu/book/buildin...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's wet proof day for the book!!

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A few of the stellar images from Rosie Nalle in last fall's studio, "BUILDING POSTCARBON FUTURES: Truth and Reconciliation in the Canadian Energy Transition."

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A few screengrabs from this 500+ page behemoth

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm going to wait a bit to announce more re: book tour events in the fall/winter, but "Building Postcarbon Futures" is on its way to the printer and I've never more proud of anything I've worked on than this. linktr.ee/billyfleming

The front and back cover of my new book, with a map of the world using the dymaixon projection centered on its spine.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We're about a month away from the publication date for "Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions." linktr.ee/billyfleming

Spread from the atlas introduction of the book, featuring an image from Germany's IBA Emscher Park

A spread from the book featuring a map of the Blackfeet Confederacy's Prairie Restoration Initiative

A spread from the book featuring images and descriptions of the West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project in northern Australia

An image from the book of deforestation in Borneo

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A few shots of the excellent work my students produced this spring in studio, focused on building a postcarbon philadelphia.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Highly recommend building a garden with your neighbors

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

finally, mercifully, doing the last proofre and pagination for my book. A few shots of spreads for the field notes section

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

cover art is juuuuust about final

Cover art for building postcarbon futures, a new book on climate justice and design due out in spring 2026

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A few shots from my stellar grad students final review, “Building Postcarbon Futures”, focused on a pair of First Nation owned renewable energy systems in the sub-arctic region of Canada.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Some new spreads as the book heads into final proofing

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Some test spreads from the new book (Building Postcarbon Futures)

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We have reached the page proofing phase of my next book (but not the image captions phase)

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We have reached the layout stage

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Have reached the stage where we’re kicking around some cover art concepts (my fav so far)

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Wrapping up the image selects for my next book this week (settling in around 350). Here are a few from the Tu Deh-Kah Geothermal Power plant, a new energy project owned and operated by the Fort Nelson First Nation as part of Canada's truth + reconciliation process.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The perfect dog has logged on

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Doing some final image selection for my next book and cannot stop staring at this beautiful shot of a Blackfoot logging crew from 1940

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Trying to imagine Debra Messing conjuring up a 9 or 10 year old Zohran Mamdani watching Hey Arnold! or Ahhhh! Real Monsters before going outside to celebrate 9/11.

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The perfect dog has logged on

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Back from a week in the South Colorado backcountry

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Just wrapped my first semester at Temple with a truly stellar group of students. Thanks to all the folks pictured (and not) for spending the day with us for their final review.

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