Ashley Dawson

Stop Data Centers Now! Campaign Launch · Food & Water Watch The rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, driven by the AI and crypto boom, presents one of the biggest environmental and social challenges of our generation. They are exponentiall...

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Episode 1863: AI's Environmental Footprint / Ashley Dawson AI's Environmental Footprint

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@ashdawson.bsky.social on his writing at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social "The Costs of the Cloud: How much power does AI consume?"

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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

“The Trump administration’s refusal to mandate reporting of AI’s environmental impact means that we have scant idea about what AI is really doing to the planet.” — @ashdawson.bsky.social

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

Ashley Dawson @ashdawson.bsky.social on the energy-guzzling data centers fueling AI

Toward a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition | Los Angeles Review of Books Ashley Dawson thinks about the future through Nicholas Beuret’s “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” and Thea Riofrancos’s “Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism...

Investment in renewable energy is hitting world records, but so is production of fossil fuels. What is to be done? I reviewed 2 new books that explore the current crisis @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @versobooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
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Zohran fought tooth and nail to pass the Build Public Renewables Act, and has championed our call for NYPA to build 15 gigawatts of public renewables. A truly sustainable NYC is possible, but only if we keep organizing to win.

A Green New Deal for NYC Is Ready to Take Root Under a Mamdani administration More rooftop solar, green schools, better mass transit, new investments in coastal resiliency, and so much more are now possible.

How could NYC become home for cutting-edge climate justice initiatives? Nancy Romer and I lay out the key climate policies Zohran Mamdani should adopt once he's elected mayor of the big apple. @haymarketbooks.org @publicpowerny.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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ICE's "Operation At Large" is a hyper-militarized police state and an inflection point in the rising authoritarianism of Trump's regime.

Learn more via our press release: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

If you missed "What’s Left for the Animals?" it is now available to watch on our website! On animal liberation and multispecies politics in the framework of anticapitalist resistance.
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The Sustainability Class vs Working Class Environmentalism Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET

Join @ashdawson.bsky.social , @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social , @avansi.bsky.social , and Vijay Kolinjivadi for a discussion on how to reject the “sustainability class” and instead build a working class environmentalism.

Thursday, April 24 at 2pm ET

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On animal liberation and multispecies politics in the framework of anticapitalist resistance. How do we build a multispecies left politics?

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Hey y'all! This is tomorrow (4/10, 6PM EST) with Alyssa Battistoni, @kaibosworth.bsky.social , @materialistjew.bsky.social , @brettchristophers.bsky.social , and @ashdawson.bsky.social .

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Film screening & discussion of neocolonial conservation tomorrow (Thursday, Feb 27) at The New School. Event details + registration here: link to the event www.eventbrite.com/e/film-scree...

If Gov. Hochul and Driscoll think that these headlines will go away, they are mistaken. 5,300+ New Yorkers went through great inconvenience to demand NYPA build the 15 GW we need for a better future. The anger will grow.

Listen to the people. Build 15 GW. #DumpDriscoll.

RSVP to Scotland: Petrostate to Renewable Powerhouse? | Partiful Scotland used to be a petrostate, heavily dependent on revenues from North Sea oil. Yet now it generates over 100% of its overall energy consumption from renewable power. It is home to the world's fir...

Our just transition campaigner Rosie discusses Scotland's energy transition with @ashdawson.bsky.social from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

⏰Thurs 23 Jan @ 5pm GMT

👩‍💻Watch the conversation: partiful.com/e/S14hNZHX9L...

A Line By Line Analysis Of Trump's Big Anti-Trans Executive Order Trump released over 70 executive orders on Monday. While orders on immigration and climate got a lot of attention, his anti-transgender order could have sweeping impacts as well.

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Capitalist Housing Markets Make Natural Disasters Worse From price gouging to risky developing to insurance dysfunction, the dynamics of private housing markets are making the Los Angeles fire disaster considerably worse. We don’t need to prioritize real e...

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In Overshoot Malm and Carton consciously narrow their scope to the fossil fuel industry. In this review, Andrew Ahern usefully extends their analysis to the agricultural sector. spectrejournal.com/overshoot-or... 1/2

Financing Energy Transition YouTube video by Ashley Dawson

How do we finance energy transition? Check out Scott Aquanno & Steve Maher (authors of "The Fall and Rise of American Finance) on what genuine public finance/power would look like. @versobooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @publicpowerny.bsky.social
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RSVP to How Do We Fund Public Power? | Partiful To avoid intensifying the current climate collapse, we need a massive and rapid buildout of renewable energy. But where will the money for this energy transition come from? Are existing programs like ...

Join me tomorrow (Thurs, Jan 15 @ 2pm ET) for a conversation with Scott Aquanno & Stephen Maher (The Fall and Rise of American Finance) about HOW TO FUND PUBLIC POWER @versobooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @publicpowerny.bsky.social partiful.com/e/GA9b0yBjHB...

One week to the first Resisting Mining Book Club of the year - register today via link in the post below!

You can read an excerpt from Christopher Pollon's book here: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.

Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Climate Debt and Border Abolition The following is an excerpt from Environmentalism from Below. The assertion of a right to move is a central element of movements for environmentalism from

An excerpt from my book "Environmentalism from Below" just went live. It's about Climate Debt, the right to stay, and the right to move. Now more than ever, we must abolish the walls & borders! @haymarketbooks.org @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social
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Trump: Isolationist in Instinct, Unpredictable in Action - FPIF Selective engagement will replace liberal internationalism.

Walden Bello is spot on.

Trump's approach to foreign policy is to make 'deals' to get thorny international issues off the table so he can focus on 'fortress America'.

And that presents some genuine opportunities for the global South. fpif.org/trump-isolat...

Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let's Talk about Real Solutions Why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are employing to halt climate change are failing—and what we could be doing instead.

“We saw this coming. We said this was happening. And we were excluded from the conversation, in many cases killed or imprisoned, because the desperate need to believe that government can save us is even greater than the addiction to fossil fuels.” @petergelderloos.bsky.social @crimethinc.com

RSVP to How Do We Fund Public Power? | Partiful To avoid intensifying the current climate collapse, we need a massive and rapid buildout of renewable energy. But where will the money for this energy transition come from? Are existing programs like ...

Join me next Thursday (Jan 16) at 2pm ET for a conversation with Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, about how to fund public power @versobooks.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org. Register here: partiful.com/e/GA9b0yBjHB...

Oxford Real Farming Conference - Agroecology & Food Sovereignty The Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) brings the grassroots food and farming movement together around agroecology and food sovereignty every January.

Some great panels on agro-ecology at the Oxford Real Farming Conference in the UK. Wish I could be there orfc.org.uk

Just a reminder that Greenland is indigenous land and Trump is having a Custer-Crook-Sherman moment here.

A Brooklyn port complex could see thousands of new apartments — but some members of the task force weighing the future of the Brooklyn Marine Terminal are asking whether scaling back one of the borough’s last remaining industrial areas is wise.

Fire season here in LA does't usually drag into November, and here we are in January, with Santa Ana winds howling over 100mph. It's extremely dry. Shit ain't good.