From 12.50pm to 4pm today (Sunday) at #AAG2023 we are celebrating the contributions of my recently retired (but not very) colleague Sallie Marston with talks by some of her students and collaborators.

Check out this important paper by Kimberley Thomas about the dangers of the growing focus on private finance for adaptation.

Check out this short working paper on the 🔥labor of climate change adaptation 🔥that I cowrote with many other colleagues. Patrick summed it up well 👇🏼

☀️WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us to take on the climate crisis at scale! Climate and Community Project is hiring for 3 staff positions: 🏘️ housing policy manager 🚎 transportation policy manager 🦔 part time operations manager climateandcommunity.org/join-the-team

Come work with us! Climate and Community Project is hiring for 3 staff positions: housing, transportation, and part-time operations. Apps due June 2: climateandcommunity.org/join-the-team

Check out this great article by Climate Futures Lab member Kieren Rudge on how to leverage critical race theory to produce equitable climate change adaptation. Essential reading 👇🏼rdcu.be/ddxwS

I have spent the last month in Ecuador visiting communities that formerly participated in climate change adaptation projects. They are fiercely fighting to keep their orgs and infrastructure going but are struggling. We need climate finance models that provide sustained support.

The death of Cal PhD student Gabe Trujillo is heartbreaking. At ERGBerkeley we have been planning a field safety workshop for a year plus but it has been hard to find good resources (especially for social scientists). Does anyone have materials or approaches they can share?

"Much of the labor of adaptation to climate change is under-, unpaid or unfree." We need to take adaptation labor seriously. Now. New Global Environmental Change commentary out with brilliant coauthors. Check it out 👇sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The green transition has implications for long-standing water conflicts in the arid American West. In this Nevada Public Radio, Sophia Borgias and I talk about our new research on water scarcity and decarbonization across the Great Basin 👇 knpr.org/show/knprs-sta…

I'm thrilled to have Brett Christophers speaking at the inaugural Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) Climate Seminar on March 12—the book's launch date! The topic couldn't be more timely: "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save The Planet." Hybrid over zoom. Join us! besi.berkeley.edu/events/the-pri…

We're hiring for an assistant professor of climate change solutions (broadly conceived). Plz apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04196

So proud to be a fellow with the newly-named Climate and Community Institute. Check out their amazing climate justice work. Stay tuned for a report on the future of home insurance due out on 9/25.

Sharing my new chapter on "The de/coloniality of global climate governance and Indigenous politics within the UNFCCC". #ClimateColoniality 🌎 ✊@lisaschipper.bsky.social @graereed8 @djranco1 Dr. Emily Benton Hite @SameerHShah Meg Mills-Novoa Charu Joshi @JolaAdapts Open access here taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-ed…

We are hiring a postdoc to work on a Sloan Foundation funded project examining the intersection of critical mineral mining and water justice in the Great Basin. Please share widely! Review starts Oct 30. 👇Detailshttps://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04616

Our project on the intersection of the low carbon energy transition and water justice in the Great Basin was featured in the Breakthroughs magazine alongside Patrick Donnelly. Exciting to get this project launched! nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/…

Looking for a great post doc to work with me at UC Berkeley on an Sloan Foundation-funded research projects focused on energy transition mineral development & water justice in the Great Basin. Deadline Oct 30. Plz share and apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04616

We extended the deadline for a post doc position at UC Berkeley on an Sloan Foundation-funded research projects focused on energy transition mineral development & water justice in the Great Basin. Deadline Nov 15. Plz share and apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04616

New open-access article with my wonderful co-conspirator, Meg Mills-Novoa 🤜🤛 Adaptation is resisted in many places, by many people, and in many different ways. What does that mean for understanding what a more equitable climate future could look like? wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc…

.Contemporary South Asia just published a Forum on Threatening Dystopias with reviews by several scholars I've learned so much from (Andrea Nightingale, Ambarish Karamchedu, Meg Mills-Novoa, David Ludden) and a response by me. So honored by the chance to engage with them 🙏tandfonline.com/toc/ccsa20/32/4