Eric Nost
@ericnost.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph, member @envirodgi.bsky.social
What if feeding babies was a "nation-building" project instead of fossil fuel infrastructure? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Something is terribly wrong': Baby formula among most stolen food items as costs spiral, researcher says | CBC News
The price of baby formula in Canada has risen roughly 84 per cent since 2017, according to Statistics Canada, driving some parents to turn to strangers on social media for help. One researcher says fo...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What if feeding babies was a "nation-building" project instead of fossil fuel infrastructure? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Are you concerned about the climate crisis and rising social injustice?
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Support communities and movements across Canada who are leading the fight for a just, equitable and livable future.
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Help fund the R4FL Community Research Lead program, so that in 2026, more Indigenous, Black and racialized communities can lead their own research, exposing systemic injustices and informing powerful solutions.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Are you concerned about the climate crisis and rising social injustice?
In the spirit of the giving season, make your tax-deductible donation to Research for the Front Lines to support communities and movements across Canada who are leading the fight for a just […]
[Original post on cosocial.ca]
In the spirit of the giving season, make your tax-deductible donation to Research for the Front Lines to support communities and movements across Canada who are leading the fight for a just […]
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Trump is authorizing exemptions to Clean Air Act rules limiting emissions of hazardous chemicals.
A new report by EDGI shows exemption-eligible facilities are among the riskiest polluters, disproportionately impacting low-income & communities of color. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
A new report by EDGI shows exemption-eligible facilities are among the riskiest polluters, disproportionately impacting low-income & communities of color. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
Even More Permission to Pollute? Impacts of Presidential Exemptions to Clean Air Act Provisions – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
According to the report Even More Permission to Pollute? Impacts of Presidential Exemptions to Clean Air Act Provisions, the EPA is authorizing […]
envirodatagov.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump is authorizing exemptions to Clean Air Act rules limiting emissions of hazardous chemicals.
A new report by EDGI shows exemption-eligible facilities are among the riskiest polluters, disproportionately impacting low-income & communities of color. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
A new report by EDGI shows exemption-eligible facilities are among the riskiest polluters, disproportionately impacting low-income & communities of color. envirodatagov.org/publication/...
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
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...
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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...
'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...
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
'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...
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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...
Read today: screening-tools.com/blog/pedp-en...
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
Read today: screening-tools.com/blog/pedp-en...
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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
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...
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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! 🦔🌌💜
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! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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! 🦔🌌💜
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! 🦔🌌💜
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
I am recruiting Master’s and/or PhD students to start in Fall 2026 on a couple of funded projects: ericnost.github.io#recruitment
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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...
journals.sagepub.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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/...
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)
1. fossil fuels - natural gas gets a huge new market and data centers get cheapened energy (www.iea.org/reports/ener...) (1/3)
www.iea.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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)
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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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)
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
September 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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)
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)
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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/...
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
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/...
Read to learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...
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So excited to see this article out! Thank you for the opportunity contribute EEW and EDGI!
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
So excited to see this article out! Thank you for the opportunity contribute EEW and EDGI!
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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
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/...
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
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.
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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
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054... 1/3
July 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢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
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2054... 1/3
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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):
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
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):
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):
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
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/...
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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
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.
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/...
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
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/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
😵💫 "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
😵💫 "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...
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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
'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India' by @ritodhi.bsky.social & Aline Carrara
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
May 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
🌎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
'Challenging elite environmentalism: Stories from Brazil and India' by @ritodhi.bsky.social & Aline Carrara
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo
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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
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
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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
🌱 EDGI is hiring for a Systems Administrator! Please share widely with your networks. Applications due May 6. multiplier-careers.pinpointhq.com/postings/190...