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Sarah Knuth

@saraheknuth.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK

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Sarah Knuth @saraheknuth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This moment demands pro-labor, green industrial policy designed to secure our energy future. California’s grid is in crisis, but the California Green Manufacturing Initiative offers a climate, jobs, and affordability strategy with huge potential benefits. Read more here: bsky.app/profile/cplu...
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026
New Paper out with @financeandspace.bsky.social (open access!) about attempts to make voluntary carbon markets 'liquid' via legal standardization, and a source of climate finance for the Global South. Plenty of strange things happening in the process. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/12/2025
This is basically the endpoint of all of this discussion about flex loads -- so it's pretty funny to me that rather than an extremely decisive "yes this is a great idea, do it now!" conclusion, the actual end state makes "further analysis required" because the models used can't do it.
Adding all 6 data centers (at 700 MW nameplate) at the same time leads to complex outcomes → further analysis required

Overall curtailment increases, particularly for the most constrained site(s), likely due to transmission congestion being contained to a small number of lines. This highlights both the importance of continued transmission upgrades for the most constrained lines and the need to study large load additions in correct sequence (clustered or one-at-a-time). It's unlikely all six of these data centers would interconnect at the same time, in the same region, but it would clearly increase the size of on-site resources required to manage network constraints.
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isaac @sevier.io · 05/11/2025
Who wants to see a new Federal Offshore Wind Authority? 👀 We gotta lay the ground for the demand now. Check out this awesome interview about a report i was lucky to work on with @jbozuwa.bsky.social, @saraheknuth.bsky.social, and @bridgetmoynihan.bsky.social
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Sarah Knuth @saraheknuth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
How do we rebuild offshore wind? The next administration should enable a federal Offshore Wind Authority to make up for the renewables capacity lost in the Trump Admin. A public option could help OSW clear important coordination hurdles: climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
climateandcommunity.org
A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The world needs to radically ramp up investment to support biodiversity- estimates put the gap at nearly $1T. Public money (especially from the rich world) has been sparse, so policy makers have turned to private finance, and we are supposedly seeing a boom in these investments- but is it real?
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Off the charts? Reasons to be skeptical of the growth in biodiversity finance
Recent estimates point to dramatic increases in private capital flowing to biodiversity. Examining main sources of this increase — equity investments …
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 01/07/2025
Final changes to the One Big Brutal Bill to get Murkowski's vote - rural hospital (Alaska) fund doubled to $50 billion - the wind/solar excise tax dropped, clean energy tax credits rolled back slightly less aggressively - SNAP work requirement for states w/high error rates (Alaska) delayed
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
Going on hour 26, but we're still fighting. A big win for Massachusetts: Republicans tried to kill off new clean energy projects, but we just forced them to take out that terrible provision. There’s a lotta awful still in there. But pressure does matter. Keep it up.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/07/2025
Okay, so Oracle claims to have signed an unnamed $30bn-a-year customer that would "bring in revenue starting in 2028." It basically has to be OpenAI, right? They're the only tenant in Abilene's Stargate data center. Quick question: how does OpenAI afford that? archive.is/RFs3h
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Oracle shares hit record high on $30bn cloud contract
Data centre group says business from unnamed new client will start to generate revenue by 2028
Oracle signage is displayed outside of the company’s headquarters in Redwood City, California, US
The deal nearly triples the $10.3bn in revenue Oracle generated from its data centre business in its 2025 fiscal year © David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Now unpaywalled: Fred Block on remaking finance. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-...
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Can We Remake Finance? - Dissent Magazine
We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
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Western Environmental Law Center @westernlaw.org · 01/07/2025
A•bun•dance is a•dumb•dance to socialize the right's deregulatory fixation into Democratic circles. Mr. Coal Doug Burgum, the Koch network, the Waltons, crypto, Big Oil, AI, and Facebook are all on board. The #Abundance agenda means silencing and crushing our friends to benefit the elite.
alex trembath of the breakthrough institute claims to be a democrat, but he is really just a republican lying to try to infiltrate democratic circles
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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Make sure to follow @valspacepower.bsky.social for future updates, and also check out the rest of the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social summer program!
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I'm up in @prospect.org with a piece on how #WelcomeFest & the Abundance Neoliberals 2.0 venerate as undeniably correct a political approach... that they just tried and failed to execute in 2024. It's the biggest ostensibly center-left gaslighting effort in my lifetime! prospect.org/politics/202...
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WelcomeFest Wants Politicians Who Choose to Believe in Nothing
At centrism’s largest gathering, what was offered as the best path forward for Democrats is what sank their 2024 chances.
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We know only a little about why Spain and Portugal's blackout occurred on Monday, but enough to what went wrong and what should have happened but didn't. Javier Blas's conference call with REE gives us the clues 1/
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Alejandro De Coss @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Really pleased to see Katie Meehan's brilliant 2023 RGS Keynote, alongside short responses by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, @natemillington.bsky.social and myself. Available on @politicalgeography.bsky.social latest issue. #GeoSky www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...
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Political Geography | Vol 117, March 2025 | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Political Geography at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
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Jay Turner @jayturner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Reports of yet another battery project on the rocks: Freyr Battery is canceling plans for its $2.6B gigafactory in Georgia, which promised 723 jobs and 34 GWh of annual battery manufacturing capacity. This project did not have a DOE loan. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/02/06/f... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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Freyr Battery scraps plans for $2.5 billion factory in Coweta County, Georgia official says
Freyr Battery has pulled the plug on building its first American factory in Coweta County.
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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“The oil and gas industry lied to you when they said LNG was clean energy,” @txsharon.bsky.social , who also addressed the Diet on Jan. 30, said as she spoke before the body.
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‘The Devil Will Bite You,’ Environmentalists Tell Japan’s Prime Minister on Eve of Trump Summit - Inside Climate News
Gulf Coast advocates traveled to Japan to warn lawmakers and financiers about the environmental impact of U.S. LNG.
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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Baltimore! Next Tuesday I'll be riffing with Sandeep Vaheesan at @redemmas.org on his new (fantastic) book Democracy In Power about the history - and future- of public ownership for electricity and everything else we need popular control over in the climate crisis. redemmas.org/events/sande...
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Sandeep Vaheesan presents "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" in conversation w/ Patrick Bigger
Private money, public good, and the original fight for control of America’s energy industry.
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Karen P.Y. Lai @karenpylai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Progress report 'Financial geography II - Green finance and climate transition' is now online (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... With thanks to Sabine Dörry, @saraheknuth.bsky.social and Felicia Liu for useful discussion and suggestions.
Screenshot showing title and abstract of a journal paper titled 'Financial geography II - green finance and climate transition'
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Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New forum up @societyandspace.bsky.social magazine organized by @saraheknuth.bsky.social, with contributions by @nithyaaa.bsky.social, Alex Loftus and Jason Cons Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all! www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
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Threatening Dystopias by Kasia Paprocki
Threatening Dystopias engages the problem of climate change and the highly charged politics of how climate futures are being defined, foreclosed, and contested across an increasing number of sites tod...
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
In light of State Farm's request that CA allow "emergency" insurance premium rate increases, citing claims for the LA fires, I'll re-up this blog for @lpeblog.bsky.social which looks at how the industry obscures how its finances work in an effort to keep profits high. lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...
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The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victim
The rapidly worsening home insurance crisis is often understood as primarily a problem for insurers. Yet the overarching policy question should not be, “how do we save the home insurance industry from...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 27/01/2025
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Alexander Dodge @alexanderdodge.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Our article "The resource-making state: liquefied natural gas production networks and state strategies for domestic market development in Indonesia" is now published in a ZFW special issue on the "State-GPN nexus" edited by Rory Horner and Martin Hess 🎉 doi.org/10.1515/zfw-...
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BLIMP! JUICE! @blimpjuice.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🫡 www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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This Solar Panel Kills Fascists
New York’s Build Public Renewables Act will reduce carbon in the atmosphere, combat inequality, and help workers. It might also defeat Trumpism.
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Open access! In which we critique the romance of work and how it props up our world - as part of a special issue on Affect and Ideology @dcockayne.bsky.social @derek-ruez.bsky.social journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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Love and Work: Affect and Ideology Beyond ‘The Great Resignation’ - Lawrence Wishart
Taking the scene of �The Great Resignation� in the USA and UK (2021-2023) as its starting point, this paper explores how love �
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Sarah Knuth @saraheknuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some good news for any of you / your people living with asthma: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Doctors hail first breakthrough in asthma and COPD treatment in 50 years
Results of trial of benralizumab injection could be ‘gamechanger’ for millions of people around the world
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
"These coastal connections have helped Appalachian coal take on an intl. orientation...While Wyoming, the US's top coal producer, exported less than 1% of its coal in 2018, West Virginia, the #2 producer, exported 41% of its coal, w/ Baltimore and [Hampton Roads] accounting for 53% of all exports."
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Sarah Knuth @saraheknuth.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Attention folks - great-looking Professor of Human Geography job posting at Uppsala (obviously for a slight more senior scholar): www.jobb.uu.se/details/?pos...
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Amy Laura Cahn @amylauracahn.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Where are the lawyers on here? Applications for year 2 of the Just Transition Lawyering Institute are open! JTLI is an online training & community-building program for lawyers looking to align their law practice with the values & demands of just transition. justtransitionlawyering.org
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Just Transition Lawyering Institute
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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. www.just-environments.org/the-sylla…
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Andrew R. Droste @droste.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
BlackRock N-PX data for '23 proxy season dropped on EDGAR this afternoon - appears BLK voted against every environmental, social, and #CorpGov-related shareholder proposal at Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Valero, Shell, Occidental, Phillips 66, & Marathon Petroleum this year #OilandGas #ESG
See BLK votes here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355916/000119312523221191/d530673dnpx.htmSee BLK votes here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355916/000119312523221191/d530673dnpx.htmSee BLK votes here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355916/000119312523221191/d530673dnpx.htmSee BLK votes here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355916/000119312523221191/d530673dnpx.htm
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
I did not see this coming. "Saudi Aramco is being investigated by the United Nations for possible human rights violations tied to fossil-fuel induced climate change."
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Aramco Targeted in UN Human Rights Probe Tied to Climate Change
Saudi Aramco is being investigated by the United Nations for possible human rights violations tied to fossil-fuel induced climate change.
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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
We're hiring! The Department of Geography & GIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is looking for an assistant professor with expertise in climate justice and/or environmental justice: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... (1/2)
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
An exciting collaboration betwn the Urban Institute & Stonybrook University. We are studying the impact of disasters on emergency room & in-patient healthcare services, and likely changes under future climate scenarios, & doing some neat scenario planning. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/08...
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
For Syllabus, a web publication that invites readers to participate in some aspect of each featured work, I wrote about the roots of building neglect in Chicago and outlined how to diagnose the recent history of a structure you see in front of you: syllabusproject.org
An orange square with dark brown text that reads "Where Does Decay Come From?"A photo of a vacant one and a half story home, boarded up with metal security materials with a posted notice on the door informing the public that the building is owned by the Cook County Land Bank Authority.
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Johanna Bozuwa @jbozuwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Out Today - A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform Dustin Mulvaney & I argue that we don't need to cut red tape to accelerate renewables. We need: - way more coordination and planning - enhanced community participation + consent - a mandated transition rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform: Principles and Policies to Unleash a Faster, More Equitable...
In this report and corresponding fact sheet, authors Johanna Bozuwa and Dustin Mulvaney outline a progressive alternative to permitting reform, one that focuses on increasing public capacity for plann...
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Alejandro De Coss @alejandrodecoss.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
On Thursday, I'll be responding to Katie Meehan's Political Geography plenary lecture alongside @saraheknuth.bsky.social and @natemillington.bsky.social.
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