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Lorena De la Puente Burlando

@loredlpb.bsky.social
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Peruvian - UCLA PhD Environment and Sustainability - Energy transition minerals.

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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Salton Sea's southern shores are currently under intense public scrutiny over plans to build data centers and, potentially, lithium extraction and processing facilities. Both projects are deemed "critical" for the State and County's economy. All while the lake continues to dry up.
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
IPCC: "...all proposed geoengineering methods also carry risks and side effects. Additional consequences cannot yet be anticipated as the level of scientific understanding (...) is low. There are also many (political, ethical, and practical) issues involving geoengineering"
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Expanding ecosystems to sequester carbon is radically necessary. However, renewable technologies require more minerals. Increasing extraction will negatively impact ecosystems worldwide. More efficient energy consumption (and reduction) helps address where, how, and whether we should mine more.
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PrairiePaladin @prairiepaladin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"The earth laughs in flowers" Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sandra W Rodríguez Castañeda @lasandunga.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Happy to see my piece published in Archive Stories. I talk about how documents and archival practices mediated the formation of political power for the rondas campesinas, a grassroots peasant organisation in the Peruvian Andes archive-stories.com/To-raise-one...
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To raise one’s head high — archive stories
Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda To raise one’s head high: Living archives and subaltern bureaucracies of the Rondas Campesinas from Chota,...
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
CCI’s newest report analyzes the limits and possibilities of CBAs to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, deliver environmental justice, and build labor power across the supply chain in the energy transition. climateandcommunity.org/research/cbas/
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Community Benefits Agreements
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements to exert control over their futures.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
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Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
One of the questions I wondered is to what end? Obviously it was used to support the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding, but a prominent legal scholar told us the ultimate target might be getting the landmark climate case Mass vs. EPA overturned by the Supreme Court
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How Trump-Vetted Scientists Are Trying to Shred the Climate Consensus
A new report commissioned by the Energy Department downplays global warming as the administration seeks to unwind environmental rules.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 29/07/2025
Electric vehicle manufacturing projects are now being delayed or canceled at six times the rate that they were during the same period last year, @jayturner.bsky.social tells @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social. The U.S. EV factory building boom is stalling out, says new data from @wellesley.edu.
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The U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Boom Is Sputtering
More than $30 billion of clean energy investments are now on ice since Trump took office, according to new data from Wellesley College’s Big Green Machine.
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#Lithium is usually depicted as too concentrated in a handful of countries and affecting the Global South. However, the picture is more complicated considering the upcoming geographical expansion of projects: 162/213 exploration efforts (76%) exist in the Global North (Buarque Andrade et al 2024).
This paper mainly discusses how to better understand Li projects timeline under current circumstances. Awesome work! Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420724007906
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I had the pleasure of being a CCI Fellow back in 2023, and the experience had such a positive impact on my dissertation work on lithium mining in the US and Peru. CCI is packed with knowledgeable and kind people doing groundbreaking work. It is truly a fantastic opportunity for young scholars!
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is a great review of ongoing debates surrounding #lithium mining. It also shares potential solutions to mitigate the environmental and social impacts of expanding extraction to mitigate the climate crisis. Dowling & Otero (2025). Free access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mirages or miracles? Lithium extraction and the just energy transition
Achieving a 1.5 °C global temperature limit by 2050 has heightened the need for lithium extraction for energy storage. This is touted by governments a…
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
One of three companies attempting to extract lithium from geothermal brine in Imperial County (California) has received the green light from a judge despite environmental concerns brought up by local organizations. Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) is still an experimental technology (see below).
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Judge clears way for massive lithium project near Salton Sea over environmental concerns
Judge says county officials adequately studied water and air quality issues for the Hells Kitchen project near the edge of the Salton Sea.
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Los mercados de energía verde están permitiendo la expansión de la minería de uranio, incluso en países como Perú, donde sólo existe legislación para explorar más no extraer este recurso radioactivo. Esta zona Puneña también contiene grandes cantidades de litio. mineriaenergia.com/mas-alla-del...
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Más allá del litio: Macusani y el plan de US$10 mlls para explorar uranio en Puno - Revista Minería & Energía
Macusani Uranium, vinculada con la minera de litio Macusani Yellowcake, presentó ante una propuesta para realizar perforaciones en el proyecto de exploración Isibilla, cuyo objetivo es identificar cue...
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Today there are more than 100 proposed lithium-mining projects around the country (USA). Even under the Trump administration (...), lithium mining and the momentum of the green-energy transition are not likely to slow much."
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
As lithium mining is promoted in the Salton Sea (California) to produce more electric vehicles and drastically reduce emissions, community organizations from Imperial Valley seek to secure benefits for thousands of residents eager for real opportunities #ValleUnido #Lithium #ImperialValley
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Imperial Valley advocates seek environmental and labor commitments from region's lithium industry
The announcement follows months of fierce disagreement between advocates and the County of Imperial over the developing industry.
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James J. A. Blair @jjablair.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our latest peer-reviewed article is now published open access in The Extractive Industries and Society! Hydrosocial imaginaries of green extractivism: Water-energy transitions and geothermal lithium development at the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, California www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hydrosocial imaginaries of green extractivism: Water-energy transitions and geothermal lithium development at the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, California
Lithium is considered an “energy transition mineral” for mitigating climate change because it is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles an…
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨Global Carbon Project 2024 assessment is out! Here are my fav 10 charts (from the 2nd half report😅): 1) Energy use by source. Fossil energy just keep growing; hydro and nuclear declining 😬; but renewables growing exponentially (at this rate they'll triple in a decade)!
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Lorena De la Puente Burlando @loredlpb.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This remarkable publication by GlobalWitness illustrates how mining for critical minerals is spreading conflicts worldwide, including lithium. Since 2021, they have mapped 34 events surrounding lithium mining, and Argentina, the US, and Portugal concentrated most of the violence and protest events
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Critical mineral mines tied to 111 violent incidents and protests on average a year | Global Witness
Critical mineral mines tied to 111 violent incidents and protests on average a year
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