Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol and sustainability advisor at Meta Reality Labs. On loan from lutruwita/ Tasmania. https://melgregg.com
Political science
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Sociology
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Pinned
In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...
The final step allowed visitors full immersion in the future city at scale.
Futurama was Bell Geddes’ remarkable design for GM at the 1939 World’s Fair. The work of building giddy expectations for a fossil fuel century. Again from Roland Marchand’s “Creating the Corporate Soul”.
Climate TRACE
We make meaningful climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail.
climatetrace.org
Intrigued by Al Gore's indefatigable commitment to just keep on communicating about climate: climatetrace.org/about
More historical refs for myopia pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.nationalacademies.org
Note to self as I head outdoors for the rest of the day www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/09....
@bleudeciel.bsky.social I would love to grab the reference to Paramount and Oregon forests for a current project. Ordering your book now! 🤓
Sustainable Media: Lessons from Film History
YouTube video by Distinctive Voices
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Brian R. Jacobson delivers an exquisite lecture on environmental impacts of media - and alternative imaginaries beyond oil youtu.be/24FcbPZWohs?...
“The technology is not yet taking young professionals’ jobs. But it is possible that, when the economy begins to perk up, there will be fewer left to take.”
Climate Change through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash
YouTube video by Distinctive Voices
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Concepts worth learning at this moment in time: hydroclimate whiplash and the atmospheric sponge. youtu.be/hLexkPPqo1E
Irony of watching a talk on energy use in silicon wafer production with so many AI generated illustrations of sustainable chip production
I mean this in the best possible way, but my hope is that conferences like these will soon be irrelevant, because the themes will be synonymous with mainstream engineering. How to accelerate this change is the focus of my talk
1st International Conference on Responsible Electronics (REACT)
The REACT 1st International Conference on Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies will be held on 11-12 November, 2025 in Glasgow
www.react.ac.uk
Heading to Glasgow today for the first REACT conference focused on Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies www.react.ac.uk/conference
Spotify and Netflix perfected the business of distraction — and now we’re paying the price
Music and film open us up to new ways of seeing the world — but the streaming giants offer lonely visions of culture
on.ft.com
This article really reminds me of doing fieldwork in China, where I became so much more aware of cultural norms about attention, and the corporate interests involved in being the “first” rather than “second” screen. on.ft.com/3WGv5f1
Zohran Mamdani elected as New York City’s first Muslim mayor in historic win
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Turn the volume up!! (Unless we’re talking fireworks on Guy Fawkes night 😩) youtu.be/zOlUtEz5-_Q?...
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Green Capitalism? – Penn Press
At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to hu...
www.pennpress.org
Joseph A Pratt did not follow this advice with the excellent title: "Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s" www.pennpress.org/978081224901...
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 26
Home - Open Paws
Ensuring the future of AI benefits all sentient beings. We are a nonprofit creating anti-speciesist artificial intelligence, providing free technical training to animal rights activist groups and help...
www.openpaws.ai
Very happy to be discovering the world of anti-speciesist AI www.openpaws.ai
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 26
1920s DuPont advertisement equating chemical engineer with Prometheus
I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource
I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.
Long 🧵😊
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Part way through Roland Marchand’s sublime account of PR, Creating the Corporate Soul
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 8
The Semiconductor Con: The Dark Side of the Chip
A one-day conference on the semiconductor industry's impact on the environment and workers and how we can organize so it benefits all of us.
www.eventbrite.com
The full program for today's event run by Chips Communities United, right in the middle of SemiCon West. Fascinating convergence of interests in AZ: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-semico...
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 7
Remembering the Nez Perce Stories of Resilience and Heritage - A Dedication By Silas Whitman
YouTube video by Dirk Knudsen
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Giving a talk today on the economic and ecological colonisation that continues to define Silicon Forest, inspired very much by the work of local Hillsboro archivists and historians who are trying to stave off environmental amnesia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_F...
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Walmart's removal of synthetic dyes could ripple through the food supply chain
Walmart says 90% of products from in-store brands are already free of these additives. But even a 10% change for a retailer as massive as Walmart can have a big effect on the industry
www.marketplace.org
If I were a female cochineal right now, I would be quite worried www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1...
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Agaton | AI-powered sales superiority
Agaton builds secure, domain-specific AI agents for sales teams introducing superhuman co-workers that help companies win.
www.agaton.ai
Even now that we can apparently have superhuman co-workers, they still have to be advertised with attractive women www.agaton.ai
Melissa Gregg
@melgregg.bsky.social
· Sep 23
MCJ's Investment in Aalo
Extra-modular nuclear reactors for data centers
newsletter.mcj.vc
Another landmark in alienation as data eats the world: "Aalo’s approach reimagines the whole nuclear facility—reactors, turbine, containment, and balance-of-plant—as a single modular product built off-site." newsletter.mcj.vc/p/aalo-inves...