Michelle Thorne

  • About
  • Branch Magazine

Funders Convening on Climate Justice and Digital Rights

April 30, 2022 by thornet

In October 2021, Mozilla, the Ford Foundation and Ariadne kicked off a new research project exploring how digital rights and climate justice intersect. In April 2022, we convened 30 digital rights funders interested in applying a climate lens to their work. Together in Lille, France…

Towards a Fossil-Free Internet: Divesting from Big Tech

December 7, 2021 by thornet

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

December 7, 2021 by thornet

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…

Fight + Build = Power

November 5, 2021 by thornet

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…

Forthcoming research on digital rights and climate justice

November 4, 2021 by thornet

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…

Posts navigation

Newer Newer Posts Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 67 Older Older Posts

Creative Commons License
Unless otherwise noted, this blog by Michelle Thorne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Find me elsewhere online as @thornet: Twitter, Github, Flickr.

Website Carbon Badge

Measuring CO2…Website Carbon
 
  • © 2025 Michelle Thorne
  • Powered by WordPress
  • Theme: Neubau by Elmastudio
Michelle Thorne
Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Neubau.