Sarah Knuth
@saraheknuth.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
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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
And in the week's Q&A, @jael.bsky.social chats with @cplusc.bsky.social's @jbozuwa.bsky.social on a proposal publicly owned wind power:
Should the Government Just Own Offshore Wind Farms?
A chat with with Johanna Bozuwa of the Climate and Community Institute.
heatmap.news
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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
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...
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...
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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?
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 …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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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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
- 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
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
- 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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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.
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.
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
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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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
archive.is/RFs3h
July 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
archive.is/RFs3h
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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-...
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-...
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?
www.dissentmagazine.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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-...
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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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.
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.
July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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.
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.
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Make sure to follow @valspacepower.bsky.social for future updates, and also check out the rest of the @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social summer program!
June 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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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...
It's the biggest ostensibly center-left gaslighting effort in my lifetime! prospect.org/politics/202...
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.
prospect.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
It's the biggest ostensibly center-left gaslighting effort in my lifetime! prospect.org/politics/202...
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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/
Javier Blas's conference call with REE gives us the clues
1/
May 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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/
Javier Blas's conference call with REE gives us the clues
1/
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Excited to be part of this first issue with such brilliant folks. Get a copy to read their contributions and my piece on embedded risk, the blunt force of precision and the Floridian death drive — one of many postcards from my gulf coastal roots to come. ✨
LAUNCHING…. The first issue of our new journal – now available to pre-order on The BREAK—DOWN website 👇
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
linktr.ee/breakdownradio
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Excited to be part of this first issue with such brilliant folks. Get a copy to read their contributions and my piece on embedded risk, the blunt force of precision and the Floridian death drive — one of many postcards from my gulf coastal roots to come. ✨
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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...
#GeoSky
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...
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
www.sciencedirect.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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...
#GeoSky
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poli...
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⚡️ 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.
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.
February 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
⚡️ 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.
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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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...
🔌💡 🔌🚗
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...
🔌💡 🔌🚗
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
🔌💡 🔌🚗
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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“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.
‘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.
insideclimatenews.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“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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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...
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.
redemmas.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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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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.
January 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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.
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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-...
Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all!
www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
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...
www.societyandspace.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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-...
Thrilling to have the chance to think with such generous engagements - thanks to them all!
www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
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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...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...
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...
lpeproject.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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...
lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...
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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
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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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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/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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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-...
January 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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