Author: thornet

Launching Branch Magazine: Issue 4

The fourth issue of Branch Magazine is dedicated to the theme Open Climate.  The co-editors of this issue of Branch Magazine met on a caravan. Inspired by the routes and exchanges of the old trading caravans, we have been traveling at our own time and…

Learning from Wind, Water and Ice

Sometimes as an adult, you can feel quite static. As a kid, you cycle through your day of play and crafts and learning and sports and talking and being silly and just being. As an adult, especially living through a pandemic and the many compounding…

Towards a Fossil-Free Internet: Divesting from Big Tech

Republished from Branch Magazine: Issue 3. The internet—essential to modern life and also the world’s largest coal-powered machine.  Like the shipping industry, packets zigzag across the globe and connect billions of people through a colossal distributed infrastructure we rarely see until it chokes, like a…

cover illustration of Branch Magazine issue 3

Branch Magazine: Issue 3

Branch Magazine is dedicated to uplifting fresh thinking for how to green the web technically, aesthetically and politically.  Themes in this issue include: solarpunk artifacts a vision for a fossil-free internet decolonizing innovation and the Green New Deal tech workers unionizing and saying no to fossil…