Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Unpaid Debts 2026-03-08T22:01:17+00:00 https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/ robertogreco oakland 2026 finance labor cities politics coal meganwachspress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e8709358663/ How It’s Made: A 7,000-Word Story on Coal in Oakland 2026-03-08T22:00:42+00:00 https://www.coyotemedia.org/how-its-made-a-7-000-word-story-on-coal-in-oakland/ robertogreco oakland rahawahaile 2026 coal aaronbady meganwachspress writing journalism. howwewrite https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f16e7c4ee5c/ Sacrificio Chileno - Puchuncaví y La Industria Inmobiliaria - YouTube 2025-12-04T07:25:47+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCGwrkvqq5o robertogreco chile 2025 pucjuncaví sacrificiochileno pollutions environment contamination industry housing development growth refineries petroleum coal valparaíao ivregión via:javierarbona https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1bf0f1e8a87e/ Battle of Blair Mountain - Wikipedia 2025-07-12T02:30:38+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain robertogreco 1921 battleofblairmountain strikes unions labor capitalism economics history riots uprisings us unitedmineworkers westvirginia coal coalmining 1920s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:04d8b86dfec8/ Alexis Madrigal: The Pacific Circuit - YouTube 2025-03-21T02:37:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCBl1CEZfLU robertogreco alexismadrigal 2025 westoakland sanfrancisco oakland dalycity pacificcircuit bart margaretgordon eminentdomain bayarea socialjustice change environmentaljustice democracy organizing urbanism urban urbanplanning environment environmentalism housing california housingcrisis infrastucture economics politics policy philtagami teamsters labor portofoakland utahcoal coal military construction globalization supplychains containerization vietnamwar ports sealand siliconvalley longshoremen electronics technology japan vietnam fairchild thirdworldliberationfront militaryindustrialcomplex pandemic covid-19 coronavirus commerce laurenmarkham stanford work us government keeanga-yamahttataylor capitalism redlning realestate law legal adamtooze marincity eastpaloalto eastbay richmond development cooperatives property greatmigration history softbank masayoshison cheguevara marxism truth abuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5203687b8bf4/ Erald Kolasi’s “The Physics of Capitalism” with Timour Kamran and Jordan Whelchel - YouTube 2025-03-01T21:57:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaZZjErdq4 robertogreco eraldkolasi tomurkamran jordanwhelchel capitalism biosphere globalwarming climatechange climate 2025 physics science oceans ecology environment systems fossilfuels economics society technology power wealth wealthdistrubution inequality efficiency emissions williamstanleyjevons class competition productivity economiesofscale steel coal agriculture ammonia aluminum history industry energysystems nature mooreslaw transistors growth degrowth sprectralization biophysics classstruggles patents research r&d development funding steamengine gpus ai artificialintelligence computing computers civilization classstruggle markzuckerberg datacenters nvidia stability equilibrium energy energyuse earth greenhousegases water currents landuse land soil valerism ecologicalfootprint nationalization finance banking socialization postcapitalism markets circulareconomy waste recycling modularity interchangeability reusability reuse modularization production consumption local localization globalization shipping eneidajacobsen labor a https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ad4bff5081e/ New Zealand Protest (Māori Hikoi) - YouTube 2025-01-19T23:46:48+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvY6lsfArX0 robertogrecomaori 2025 land landback indigeneity indigenous naturalresources politics policy davidseymour newzealand māori andrewcallaghan māorihikoi hikoi tyrranyofthemajority whitesupremacy race racism rightwing inequality prejudice equality democracy gender ethnicity mining gold coal environment greed water oceans equity us liberalism money influence obfuscation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1abddf7d2dc2/ Malm and Mangione | Online Only | n+1 | Amna A. Akbar 2025-01-19T19:53:17+00:00 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/malm-and-mangione/ robertogrecoamnaakbar andreasmalm luigimangione 2025 inequality taxes/ taxation covid-19 coronavirus pandemic policy medicareforall healthcare health medicine us capitalism bailouts socialwelfare welfare kimstanleyrobinson buildbackbetter greennewdeal joemanchin nancypelosi georgefloyd berniesanders change caresact economics climate climatechange globalwarming coal pipelines davidremnick ezraklein climateactivism petroleum fossilfuels climatepolicy wimcarton inflationreductionact zionism palestine protest genocide ethniccleansing harvard mit upenn tiktok criticalracetheory davidmarchese carbonemissions democrats dnc extractivism incarceration prisons settlercolonialism colonialism colonization donaldtrump southkorea unitedhealthcare brianthompson robinhood batman commodification financialization bigpharma pharmaceuticals healthinsurance insurance media corporatemedia mainstreammedia detroitrebellion 1970 unions uaw autoworkers ows occupywallstreet death slowdeath puertorico massorganization organizing corruption privatiz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1acf9b93a3fa/ Historia freak de nuestra relación con la naturaleza - Joaquín Barañao l Biobío 2024 - YouTube 2024-09-05T19:21:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7USJ6ucupc robertogreco joaquínbarañao history civilization agriculture nature humans 2024 fossilfuels society ecosystems anthropocene cities wellbeing class deforestation forests bible domination naturalhistory ancietngreece ancientrome feudalism medieval middleages hunting wildlife multispecies morethanhuman francisbacon washingtonirving descartes science historyofscience enlightenment nicholasmalebranche rationalism animals automation dogs breeding industrialrevolution nutrition urbanization urban urbanism adamsmith disconnection productivity davidricardo economics philosophy thomasjefferson pollution sustainability manatees london coal extinction penguins uk us global iceland copernicus chile darwin charlesdarwin conservation johnmuir catholicism teddyroosevelt christianity aldoleopold genesis silentspring rachelcarson climatechange globalwarming ozonehole environment sandcountyalmanac well-being theodoreroosevelt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cc63de805ddb/ "Double Agents": Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work for Big Oil - YouTube 2023-07-08T20:12:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd08rqVjAxE robertogreco bigoil lobbying fossilfuels nonprofits universities colleges environment climatechange globalwarming olivermilman shell bp nonprofitindustrialcomplex conflictsofinterest conflictofinterest bigtech climatecrisis californiastateuniversity diverstment univerlsityofwashington corruption philadelphia baltimore exxonmobil johnshopkins maryland coal losangeles chicago cities florida syracuseuniversity commoncause kochindustries amazon apple newmuseum lacma corporations green sustainability microsoft google opensecrets politics influence power ideals policy insurance statefarm skiresorts carbonemissions climatedisasters wildfires floods vail jacksonhole bardcollege csu california https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:321de6763d68/ Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age | The New Yorker 2022-05-14T19:15:18+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/28/wendell-berrys-advice-for-a-cataclysmic-age robertogreco wendellberry slow small farming place radicalism conservatism writing environment ecology agriculture land 2022 dorothywickenden modernity howwewrite poetry books history dan wickenden thomasfriedman alberthoward earlbutz protest resistance community neighborliness neighbors solidarity technology luddism luddites canon bobbieannmason fiction nonfiction tobacco us politics johnberry roberthazel edmcclanahan jamesbakerhall gurneynorman marriage tanyaamyx wallacstegner slavery race racism bellhooks home homes gardening stewardship economics policy monopolies capitalism corporatism corporations humanism school schooling highered highereducation education deschooling unschooling alternative rural roots belonging deracination placemaking cycles cyclical seasons hope present future pollution mining coal appalachia organizing christianity catastrophe climatechange globalwarming schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e8e47d35401/ Charmaine Chua on Twitter: "Everyone is talking about the big ship getting stuck in the #Suez Canal. Here's a critical logistics reading list on the politics of how we got here -why ships are so huge, why there is a manmade canal cutting through a contine 2021-03-30T02:46:44+00:00 https://twitter.com/charmaineschua/status/1375868552129863681 robertogreco charmainechua 2021 infrastructure suezcanal shipping supplychains capitalism latecapitalism energy climatechange globalization onbarak jatindua somalia piracy panamacanal martindanyluk logistics global communism albertotoscano evergreen timmitchell carbonemissions fossilfuels coal oil petroleum alejandrocolas liamcampling geopolitics readinglists debcowen lalehkhalili criticallogisitics juandelara socal inlandempire philneel geography us china coasts ports petercole katyfox-hoddess davefeathersone elizabethsibilia philsteinberg hegehoyerleivestad evergiven panamácanal latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52b795f60c5d/ Get Real | Tarence Ray 2019-03-29T02:52:13+00:00 https://thebaffler.com/latest/get-real-ray robertogreco rural us paulkrugman politics economics 2019 power taranceray liberals neoliberalism capitalism democrats republicans ideology incrementalism elitism society socialwelfare welfare radicalism humanrights work labor workingclass class teachers tenants coal westvirginia newmexico oil gas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2fafdd736d8c/ Finding the Future in Radical Rural America | Boston Review 2019-02-02T22:51:53+00:00 https://bostonreview.net/politics/elizabeth-catte-finding-future-radical-rural-america robertogreco rural westvirginia politics policy us economics future history democrats republicans progressive race class racism classism elizabethcatte aaronbady nuance radicalism socialism unions organizing environment labor work capitalism inequality appalachia coalmining coal mining coreyrobin grassroots alexandriaocasio-cortez workingclass classwars poverty identity power change changemaking josemanchin 2019 aoc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44620eff8aaf/ The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich 2018-01-06T22:47:10+00:00 http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/ robertogreco430 million years before present, the first vascular plants emerged from early tide pools. In order to stay upright, these plants employed cellulose, a chain of simple sugars ... it was easy to make and offered rigid yet flexible support This is from How Fungi Saved the World. 90 million years later, heralding the Carboniferous period,
plants developed a new kind of support material, called lignin. Lignin was an improvement development over cellulose in several ways: it was harder, more rigid, and, being more complex, almost impossible to digest, which made it ideal for protecting cellulose. With lignin, plants could make wood, and it lead to the first treelike growth form.
But lignin made the lycopod trees a little too successful. Because their leaves were lofted above many herbivores and their trunks were made inedible by lignin, lycopods were virtually impervious to harm. Dead trees piled up without decomposing. Compacted by weight, they turned to peat and then to coal. 90% of all today's coal is from this period. Wood pollution lasted 40 million years.
Finally, however, a fungus belonging to the class Agaricomycetes - making it a distant cousin of button mushrooms - did find a crude way to break down lignin. Rather than devise an enzyme to unstitch the lignin molecule, however, it was forced to adapt a more direct strategy. Using a class of enyzmes called peroxidases, the fungus bombarded the wood with highly reactive oxygen molecules, in much the same way one might untie a knot using a flamethrower. This strategy reduced the wood to a carbohydrate-rich slurry from which the fungus could slurp up the edible cellulose.
Which leads me to think: There's a ton of plastic in the ocean. Why not engineer a fungus to rot it? Having this magical material that lasts forever is absurd. This is a controversial idea I admit. But although I agree that we need to reduce plastic pollution (via social change and by regulatory intervention), cybernetics tells me that's a fragile solution. Homeostasis is to be found in a ecosystem of checks and balances: instead of eternal plastic, we need plastic plus a plastic-rotting fungus plus an effective-but-hard-to-apply fungicide. Then balance can be found."]]> 2016 coal plants trees fungi science evolution classideas decomposition srg naturalhistory plastic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446f16d2f44/ Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure - Washington Post 2016-12-24T18:31:35+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/ robertogreco maps mapping infrastructure us visualization 2016 electricgrid electricity energy coal naturalgas hydropower wind windenergy bridges pipelines rail railroads airports ports waterways osm openstreetmap railways trains https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1aca86e8426d/ Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world | TED Talk | TED.com 2016-07-26T07:32:18+00:00 https://www.ted.com/talks/dame_ellen_macarthur_the_surprising_thing_i_learned_sailing_solo_around_the_world?language=en#t-18518 robertogreco ellenmacarthur economics systems systemsthinking 2015 sustainability coal cycles recycling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05f77330863a/ It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change — Matter — Medium 2015-07-31T18:20:47+00:00 https://medium.com/matter/it-s-not-climate-change-it-s-everything-change-8fd9aa671804 robertogrecoEveryone knows that all life requires energy. But we rarely consider how dependent art and culture are on the energy that is needed to produce, practice and sustain them. What we fail to see are the usually invisible sources of energy that make our art and culture(s) possible and bring with them fundamental values that we are all constrained to live with (whether we approve of them or not). Coal brought one set of values to all industrialized countries; oil brought a very different set… I may not approve of the culture of consumption that comes with oil… but I must use [it] if I want to do anything at all. Those living within an energy system, says Lord, may disapprove of certain features, but they can’t question the system itself. Within the culture of slavery, which lasted at least 5,000 years, nobody wanted to be a slave, but nobody said slavery should be abolished, because what else could keep things going? Coal, says Lord, produced a culture of production: think about those giant steel mills. Oil and gas, once they were up and running, fostered a culture of consumption. Lord cites “the widespread belief of the 1950s and early ’60s in the possibility of continuing indefinitely with unlimited abundance and economic growth, contrasted with the widespread agreement today that both that assumption and the world it predicts are unsustainable.” We’re in a transition phase, he says: the next culture will be a culture of “stewardship,” the energy driving it will be renewables, and the art it produces will be quite different from the art favored by production and consumption cultures. What are the implications for the way we view both ourselves and the way we live? In brief: in the coal energy culture — a culture of workers and production — you are your job. “I am what I make.” In an oil and gas energy culture — a culture of consumption — you are your possessions. “I am what I buy.” But in a renewable energy culture, you are what you conserve. “I am what I save and protect.” We aren’t used to thinking like this, because we can’t see where the money will come from. But in a culture of renewables, money will not be the only measure of wealth. Well-being will factor as an economic positive, too. The second book I’ll mention is by anthropologist, classical scholar, and social thinker Ian Morris, whose book, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve, has just appeared from Princeton University Press. Like Barry Lord, Morris is interested in the link between energy-capture systems and the cultural values associated with them, though in his case it’s the moral values, not only the aesthetic ones — supposing these can be separated — that concern him. Roughly, his argument runs that each form of energy capture favors values that maximize the chance of survival for those using both that energy system and that package of moral values. Hunter-gatherers show more social egalitarianism, wealth-sharing, and more gender equality than do farmer societies, which subordinate women — men are favored, as they must do the upper-body-strength heavy lifting — tend to practice some form of slavery, and support social hierarchies, with peasants at the low end and kings, religious leaders, and army commanders at the high end. Fossil fuel societies start leveling out gender inequalities — you don’t need upper body strength to operate keyboards or push machine buttons — and also social distinctions, though they retain differences in wealth. The second part of his argument is more pertinent to our subject, for he postulates that each form of energy capture must hit a “hard ceiling,” past which expansion is impossible; people must either die out or convert to a new system and a new set of values, often after a “great collapse” that has involved the same five factors: uncontrolled migration, state failure, food shortages, epidemic disease, and “always in the mix, though contributing in unpredictable ways–- climate change.” Thus, for hunting societies, their way of life is over once there are no longer enough large animals to sustain their numbers. For farmers, arable land is a limiting factor. The five factors of doom combine and augment one another, and people in those periods have a thoroughly miserable time of it, until new societies arise that utilize some not yet exhausted form of energy capture. And for those who use fossil fuels as their main energy source — that would be us, now — is there also a hard ceiling? Morris says there is. We can’t keep pouring carbon into the air — nearly 40 billion tons of CO2 in 2013 alone — without the consequences being somewhere between “terrible and catastrophic.” Past collapses have been grim, he says, but the possibilities for the next big collapse are much grimmer. We are all joined together globally in ways we have never been joined before, so if we fail, we all fail together: we have “just one chance to get it right.” This is not the way we will inevitably go, says he, though it is the way we will inevitably go unless we choose to invent and follow some less hazardous road. But even if we sidestep the big collapse and keep on expanding at our present rate, we will become so numerous and ubiquitous and densely packed that we will transform both ourselves and our planet in ways we can’t begin to imagine. “The 21st century, he says, “shows signs of producing shifts in energy capture and social organization that dwarf anything seen since the evolution of modern humans.”"]]> climate climatechange culture art society margaretatwood 2015 cli-fi sciefi speculativefiction designfiction capitalism consumerism consumption energy fossilfuels canon barrylord coal anthropology change changemaking adaptation resilience ianmorris future history industrialization egalitarianism collapse humans biodiversity agriculture emissions environment sustainability stewardship renewableenergy making production makers materialism evolution values gender inequality migration food transitions hunter-gatherers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4972c074142c/ Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story | Politics News | Rolling Stone 2014-01-02T18:58:44+00:00 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-and-climate-change-the-real-story-20131217?print=true robertogreco barackobama policy climatechange billmckibben 2013 fossilfuels fracking us carbonemissions coal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fe642b3b442/ Powering A Nation.org 2013-10-03T16:59:59+00:00 http://www.poweringanation.org/ robertogreco activism climate coal energy water veterans storytelling interactivefilm interactive ptsd interactivedocumentary documentary climatechange us rivers 2013 coloradoriver https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce171ef4831c/ Honkytonk Films – Online screening: Journey To The End Of Coal 2012-02-22T20:25:54+00:00 http://www.honkytonk.fr/index.php/webdoc/ robertogreco klynt cyoa interactivedocumentary filmmaking photography interactive journalism multimedia video documentary coal china fiction if interactivefiction https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63fccd428b2d/ Industrial strength Google solar | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com 2008-05-25T15:56:11+00:00 http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/05/industrial-stre.html robertogreco brucesterling energy coal solar future futurism google https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a4e5ed982a6/