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…
At Mozilla, I’m working with the talented Brandi Geurkink to explore how our advocacy and movement-building towards climate justice could better complement each other. We were struggling with immediate actions versus building up positions. The “Fight + Build = Power” model by Geoffrey MacDougall really…
Mozilla, the Ford Foundation and Ariadne are kicking off a new research project exploring how digital rights and climate justice intersect. The research will better equip digital rights funders to craft grantmaking strategies that maximize impact on both issues. Interim findings from the research will…
As part of the Green Web Fellowship program, we’re hosting a capacity building workshop with the wonderful Beatrice Martini. In it, she grounded us in a capacity building framework and introduced the idea of backward design. As part of the workshop, I shared why we…
Cross-posting from a recent Twitter thread: In 2016, I started talking about IoT as an amplifier and multiplier of harms. At the time, focusing on connected devices seemed wise. The capabilities and ubiquity of smart devices was growing. Amazon Echo, for example, was just rolling…