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Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, member @envirodgi.bsky.social
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Hmm, if "we are living in Michael Scott's world now" maybe it's also because we are living in Trump's and Musk's world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
How ‘The Office’ Memes Became the Language of the Internet
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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New in Geo:

'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana

This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Farhana Sultana (2025) entitled: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' with an orange banner at the top. Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We’re excited to share the first story in our Made Possible series, showing how 2,212 studies relied on federal environmental justice tools like EJScreen and what’s at stake when those tools disappear.

Read today: screening-tools.com/blog/pedp-en...
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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envirodgi.bsky.social
Many AI data centers are state & federally permitted, theoretically held to pollution standards so as not to overburden communities. The data tell a different story: Those living near these centers face higher air pollution, especially communities of color. envirodatagov.org/blogs/commun...
Communities Close to EPA-Regulated Data Centers Face Heightened Air Pollution – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
By Lelia Marie Hampton and Eric Nost Key Points Data centers are booming right now due to climbing demand for generative AI, […]
envirodatagov.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
unboxing Public Data Cultures book Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag. Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
I am recruiting Master’s and/or PhD students to start in Fall 2026 on a couple of funded projects: ericnost.github.io#recruitment
Welcome!
Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics University of Guelph
ericnost.github.io
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Our short paper on the development and use of a tool for teaching about drinking water justice in New Jersey was just published open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
An Online Interactive Tool for Exploring Water Justice with Undergraduate Students - Eric Nost, Marianne Sullivan, Kelsey Breseman, Lilian Milanés, Nicole Davi, 2025
It is vital that the next generation of public health practitioners understand the importance of ensuring affordable and equitable access to safe drinking water...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
Three ways Trump and Big Tech's interests intersect:

1. fossil fuels - natural gas gets a huge new market and data centers get cheapened energy (www.iea.org/reports/ener...) (1/3)
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September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real-time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical comparison of how participation is conceived of in the more established context of static conservation areas and planning versus the emergent field of dynamic management. A systematic review of the dynamic ocean management literature reveals a varied, but shallow engagement with the topic of stakeholder participation in that context. Whereas static management regimes are governed by relatively intuitive and contestable maps, dynamic management is governed by models and data flows. Overall, the decision-making stakeholder of participatory mapping processes under static management is displaced by the stakeholder conceived as an ‘end-user’ of a dynamic management product and consultant in its design. Yet, these shifts also open up potential points of contestation, which may pattern the future theory and practice of participation in dynamic management: counterdata, countermodelling and data chokepoints. Beyond the empirical focus on oceans, this article contributes to broader conversations about the political stakes of environmental data, and algorithmic and artificial intelligence-driven natural resource conservation by considering how possibilities for participation are foreclosed, enabled and reconstituted by new spatiotemporal and technological conditions.
September 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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In a new report, EDGI shows the costs of terminating EPA’s environmental justice grants. Economically, cutting these grants removes over $6 billion in benefits, including 65,000 jobs.

Read to learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...
The Cost of Cuts to EPA’s Environmental Justice Grants – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The Cost of Cuts to EPA’s Environmental Justice Grants highlights the benefits of environmental justice grants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
envirodatagov.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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So excited to see this article out! Thank you for the opportunity contribute EEW and EDGI!
envirodgi.bsky.social Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Sep 2
New paper alert! A new article in @sthv.bsky.social reflects on how EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch program uses computational civic notebooks to intervene in environmental data regimes that otherwise sustain a harmful permission-to-pollute system.

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September 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...
Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The report Climate of Suppression: Environmental Information Under the Second Trump Administration examines management of federal websites related to environmental regulation in the first six months o...
envirodatagov.org
August 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
Ethemblage is an online game developed by @leahgovia.bsky.social leahgovia.itch.io/ethemblage It's a story in which players interact with different scenarios where technologies such as acoustic monitors, drones, and GPS collars are applied by conservationists to monitor non-human species.
Ethemblage by leahgovia
Interactive story about more-than-human ethics
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August 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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📢Since our relaunch 2 years ago, we have been working hard to create a space for geographical & interdisciplinary research on climate change, the environment & sustainability which doesn't fit neatly in sub-disciplinary journals

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054... 1/3
A screenshot of the Geo: Geography and Environment home page. Geo: Geography and Environment is a fully open access journal that publishes papers from across and beyond the discipline of geography that focus on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. It is published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). With a commitment to promoting interdisciplinary research and global perspectives, we welcome new, critical, and underrepresented ideas from leading scholars and emerging voices in pursuit of fresh viewpoints and solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems. Journal Metrics: CiteScore = 2.9 Journal Impact Factor = 3.8 Acceptance Rate = 43% Submission to First Decision = 55 days
July 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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envirodgi.bsky.social
Trump’s enviro agenda is based on 3 ideas:

1️⃣ We’ve made enough progress on 📉ing pollution
2️⃣ Indigenous & communities of color aren’t overburdened by pollution
3️⃣ Polluters can be trusted to comply w/ laws

Each is wrong & we draw on EPA’s data to show it: envirodatagov.org/a-new-wave-o... (🧵 1/3):
A New Wave of Air Toxics Demands Real Enforcement – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
This is the first installment of our State of Environmental Protection series. This series utilizes public data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate the current state of our e...
envirodatagov.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
Canada is supposed to be developing a national strategy to address environmental racism and justice. These two bills obviously work against that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Federal, provincial environmental bills have 'no respect' for Ontario First Nations, says chief | CBC News
Nine Ontario First Nations asking for an injunction against a pair of federal and provincial bills meant to fast-track infrastructure projects revealed more details about constitutional challenges aga...
www.cbc.ca
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Today the guardian is debuting our new calculations of climate damage caused by Israel's genocide in Gaza. Greenhouse gases are not the most important reason to demand a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, but this data shows yet another way that genocide harms us all.
Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries
Exclusive: The climate cost is more than than the combined 2023 emissions of Costa Rica and Estonia, study finds
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
Ontario's Bill 5 is more permission to pollute, from a government who doesn't have the right to give it
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
First Nations leaders in Ontario's Ring of Fire region demand Bill 5 be struck down | CBC News
First Nations leaders and environmental advocates are continuing to speak out against an Ontario bill aimed at speeding up development. In northern Ontario, home to the lucrative Ring of Fire mineral ...
www.cbc.ca
May 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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😵‍💫 "It’s 2025 and the idea that some police department or some big employer can be sued because of statistics ... is unfair." - US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🌎New #OA paper in Geo🌍

'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India' by @ritodhi.bsky.social & Aline Carrara

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Ritodhi Chakraborty & Aline Carrara (2025) entitled 'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India'
May 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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As DOGE works to make it easier to track people, Trump’s EPA plans to make it harder to track polluters. 1/3 www.propublica.org/article/trum... #environmentaldatajustice
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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🌱 EDGI is hiring for a Systems Administrator! Please share widely with your networks. Applications due May 6. multiplier-careers.pinpointhq.com/postings/190...
Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
Job Opening: Systems Administrator - Environmental Data & Governance Initiative at Multiplier in Remote.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
ericnost.bsky.social
“xAI has essentially built a power plant in South Memphis with no oversight, no permitting, and no regard for families living in nearby communities”

Meanwhile, EPA says its mission is to "Make the United States the Artificial Intelligence Capital of the World"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators
Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“Removing government datasets is tantamount to theft”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals
The White House has pulled federal webpages tracking climate and environmental justice data
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM