Carl Zimring
@carlzimring.bsky.social
Trash talk. Some material recycled. https://carlzimring.com
Your occasional reminder that the activities described as recycling have complex and often destructive effects.
Industry rightly claims that 99% of US lead-acid batteries are recycled.
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
When done cheaply, that recycled lead comes at a grave cost to workers and communities around the world.
#energysky
Second part of this great, devastating, reporting.
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
"As the auto industry struggled through the subsequent financial crisis, other car companies and battery retailers also declined to sign on. Green Lead collapsed"
Explore this gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Your occasional reminder that the activities described as recycling have complex and often destructive effects.
Chicago barbershop, Oslo.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Chicago barbershop, Oslo.
Pratt Chair of Undergraduate Communications Design Meta Newhouse quoted in this story on the Mamdani campaign's aesthetics. gothamist.com/news/how-zoh...
How Zohran Mamdani's vivid campaign aesthetic was inspired by Bollywood and taxis
Mamdani and the designers who helped craft the logo and font spoke to Gothamist about how they reflect New York City.
gothamist.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Pratt Chair of Undergraduate Communications Design Meta Newhouse quoted in this story on the Mamdani campaign's aesthetics. gothamist.com/news/how-zoh...
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When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
"It is not law enforcement; it is terror." - A generation of Chicago journalists speak out about the ICE assault. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"It is not law enforcement; it is terror." - A generation of Chicago journalists speak out about the ICE assault. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Five million political signs in Copenhagen ahead of the November 18 election. This one is my favorite.
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Five million political signs in Copenhagen ahead of the November 18 election. This one is my favorite.
Seeing Pater Saville quoted in the closing keynote of Furniture Seminar 2025 was a nice surprise. Now enjoying the sun in Copenhagen.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Seeing Pater Saville quoted in the closing keynote of Furniture Seminar 2025 was a nice surprise. Now enjoying the sun in Copenhagen.
Hey #DiscardStudies folks. The European Commission has a public consultation period open until November 6 for its planned Circular Economy Act. If you have an article or post you want included, register and submit at ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
ec.europa.eu
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hey #DiscardStudies folks. The European Commission has a public consultation period open until November 6 for its planned Circular Economy Act. If you have an article or post you want included, register and submit at ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
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Very happy to hear @carlzimring.bsky.social’s talk to The Greenhouse today on his new project:
Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?
Voluntary and Regulatory Measures Shaping Design Strategies in the Scandinavian Furniture Industry
1987-present
Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?
Voluntary and Regulatory Measures Shaping Design Strategies in the Scandinavian Furniture Industry
1987-present
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Very happy to hear @carlzimring.bsky.social’s talk to The Greenhouse today on his new project:
Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?
Voluntary and Regulatory Measures Shaping Design Strategies in the Scandinavian Furniture Industry
1987-present
Ecodesigning Sustainable Products?
Voluntary and Regulatory Measures Shaping Design Strategies in the Scandinavian Furniture Industry
1987-present
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Sad news and a huge loss for Chicago art.
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick — a fiercely independent essayist, painter and gallerist — dies at 66
The artist, writer and actor recently published "The Sun at the End of the Road" and had a Steppenwolf show planned this month.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Sad news and a huge loss for Chicago art.
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
chicago.suntimes.com/2025/10/11/c...
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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I've never seen such escalation and use of force toward ends I just could not see. There was no real property destruction, no pushing into the neighborhoods to make arrests, very little obstructing of traffic. Saw chemicals and bangs deployed down streets the feds were not facing and did not travel.
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I've never seen such escalation and use of force toward ends I just could not see. There was no real property destruction, no pushing into the neighborhoods to make arrests, very little obstructing of traffic. Saw chemicals and bangs deployed down streets the feds were not facing and did not travel.
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This upcoming symposium at CAS in Oslo on "Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits", organized by Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, looks fantastic. I'll be there! #envhum #envhist
Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits | CAS
Provisional Programme (subject to change) 09:00Welcome by Ingrid Halland (Associate Professor at University of Bergen, NO)Part I – Aesthetics (histories) 09:30-09:50Grace Lees-Maffei (Professor of Des...
cas-nor.no
October 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Sad to learn that Dr. Quintard Taylor has died. Been an admirer of his work since Joe Trotter assigned his Forging of a Black Community in seminar 31 years ago (and later made a personal introduction). His work remains an inspiration. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Quintard Taylor, UW professor and Black history archivist, dies at 76
Quintard Taylor Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.
www.seattletimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sad to learn that Dr. Quintard Taylor has died. Been an admirer of his work since Joe Trotter assigned his Forging of a Black Community in seminar 31 years ago (and later made a personal introduction). His work remains an inspiration. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thread.
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
It's 2025, and the best band in the world is Silkworm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPv...
Silkworm - "The Bones" (live at Sleeping Village, Chicago 9/24/25)
YouTube video by Bradley's Almanac
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September 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's 2025, and the best band in the world is Silkworm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPv...
Kathleen Corradi is no longer in charge of battling New York City's rats. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/23/r...
Mayor Adams’ ‘Rat Czar’ Quietly Exits City Hall’s Rodent Offensive
Hoopla greeted the 2023 appointment of the city’s first director of rodent mitigation, but Kathleen Corradi departed with a whimper.
www.thecity.nyc
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Kathleen Corradi is no longer in charge of battling New York City's rats. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/23/r...
Visited The Plus today.
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Visited The Plus today.
“This is a celebration,” said Doug McConnell, founder of A Long Swim, which organized Sunday’s event. “The city has done such a remarkable job over the generations to make sure that this water is swimmable, that the recreation opportunities are what they are.”
chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...
chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...
Hundreds plunge into Chicago River in city’s first open-water swim in nearly a century
About 300 swimmers participated in the event, marveling at the clean water and festive atmosphere. Event organizers say they'll donate $100,000 to ALS research and $50,000 to fund swim lessons for abo...
chicago.suntimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“This is a celebration,” said Doug McConnell, founder of A Long Swim, which organized Sunday’s event. “The city has done such a remarkable job over the generations to make sure that this water is swimmable, that the recreation opportunities are what they are.”
chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...
chicago.suntimes.com/outdoors/202...
As Climate Week NYC is about to begin, here is a roundup of relevant events, outreach, research, and activities from the Pratt community. (Includes a mention of my current project.) www.pratt.edu/news/creativ...
Creative Solutions for a Changing Climate
Across disciplines, Pratt students and faculty are tackling the climate crisis through research, material innovation, and community collaboration.
www.pratt.edu
September 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
As Climate Week NYC is about to begin, here is a roundup of relevant events, outreach, research, and activities from the Pratt community. (Includes a mention of my current project.) www.pratt.edu/news/creativ...