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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Aug 31

In a world of selfish authoritarians, be a plugged-in politician like Mamdani in NYC. Work for everyone, not to grab for yourself.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 31

One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.

They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.

It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋

'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Siddharth Sareen, Marianne Ryghaug, Dominic Boyer & Cymene Howe entitled: 'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' with an orange banner at the top.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Ensconcement offers an epistemological and developmental tool to study and understand past injustices in order to co-create ways to address them — upholding the vital principles of democracy, transparency and accountability to a high standard."

Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...

Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]

India’s renewable energy transition is accelerating, marked by a drop in fossil fuel power generation and a push for green investment.

india.mongabay.com

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jul 22

Awesome possum!

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Shayan Shokrgozar @shayanshokrgozar.bsky.social · Jul 5

I'm happy to share that our Special Issue is now complete, and our editorial introduction has just been published in Sustainability Science!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@sidsareen.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social @empoweredfutures.bsky.social @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social

The dawn of solar photovoltaics: emergent political economies at the solar–agri–land nexus - Sustainability Science

Solar power is the most rapidly growing energy source worldwide. Solar turn holds potential for a significant shift to renewable energy and swift reductions in carbon emissions. Yet, as a land- and re...

link.springer.com

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jul 1

In the world of 2025, bet like China on an electro-state future, not like the US on being a petro-state. Wish Norway would embrace the first right proper instead of desperately clinging to the latter as it fades. Today, build like it's for tomorrow, not as you recall from yesterday.

Jay Turner @jayturner.bsky.social · Jun 30

Sobering piece in @nytimes.com compares China's advances in clean energy to the U.S.'s retrenchment in fossil fuels. Hard to read at a moment when the U.S. is giving up on a more affordable, healthier, and more sustainable future.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats @adrianhiel.bsky.social, a key role in our time!

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Spain responding rightly to an astute and evidenced understanding of the outage by improving technical systems support to continue exponential expansion of renewable energy. The fossil fuel lobby cannot win over facts in a competitive market with informed governance and management of energy systems.

Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · Jun 25

1/6 After April’s huge power outage, Spain is responding with climate leadership—not in spite of the crisis, but because of it.
A new proposed law would ramp up renewables, storage & electrification to make 🇪🇸's grid cleaner, more reliable, & independent.
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...

www.lamoncloa.gob.es

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 20

He's here, he's live! Catch @jonworth.eu on livestream from @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y726...

Jon Worth is live

YouTube video by Jon Worth

www.youtube.com

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 19

A useful overview of electrification and deep decarbonisation, pointing out the need for a lot more electricity production to move towards net zero targets.

Rebecca Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social · Jun 19

In order to keep global warming below 1.5C or 2C, we need to move industrial activity to clean energy. This will MORE THAN DOUBLE our global need for electricity.

We are going to need a LOT more wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean electricity than most people are expecting.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 19

Sounds perfect, see you when you hop off your bicycle!

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 19

We do have an 'Owl' set up, but the less IT involved the better in terms of conviviality :)

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 19

Can set up an improvised version of that, yes (laptop facing you), and if you have a link to share ahead of time, the Norwegian Grandparents' Climate Campaign might be interested as they have an active campaign: www.besteforeldreaksjonen.no/2025/05/hvor...

Hvor går toget? - besteforeldre for en ansvarlig klimapolitikk

Neppe høyhastighetsbaner i Norge med det første! Det var et av svarene ass. generalsekretær i BKA, Lasse Heimdal, fikk av tidl. informasjonssjef Preben Colstrup i NSB og tidl. konsernsjef i NSB/VY, Ge...

www.besteforeldreaksjonen.no

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking forward to hosting @jonworth.eu tomorrow @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social - he'll address European railway politics, a theme there's widespread interest in and a cause there's momentum for! Join us at 11 if interested :) (venue: Spisestuen, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker)

Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · Jun 19

As my train heads towards Oslo, final call for #CrossBorderRail events tmrw 20 Jun

11:00-12:00 - speech at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Spisestuen), Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A Lysaker

15:00-20:00 - informal at Prindsen Hage, Chr. Krohgs gate 15 Oslo

crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...

#CrossBorderRail Finale 2025 - Events - #CrossBorderRail

Throughout the #CrossBorderRail finale there will be a series of events, meetings and tours. However unlike previous projects my network in the areas I am visiting is rather thin, so at the moment the...

crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Beautiful peaceful protest against the man who would be king, a song for a free country.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thousands sing "This Land is Your Land" during a 'No Kings' protest in Napa, CA.

sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Beautiful stuff. In a world with so much going wrong, nice to see a few things going right.

Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · Jun 14

World’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery commissioned in Finland www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/11/w...

World’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery commissioned in Finland

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy has commissioned the world’s largest sand battery in Pornainen, southern Finland. The industrial-scale system delivers 1 MW of thermal power with 100 MWh storage cap...

www.pv-magazine.com

sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 7

Such a treat to witness the mesmerising @buggewesseltoft.bsky.social (twice!), the awesome @harukimurakami.bsky.social with sage reflections, and the one and only Mari Boina who evocatively recited a Palestinian poem and called for an end to the Israeli genocide. Packed house and a standing ovation.

sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Lovely to be in beautiful Bergen for the kickoff of the ECOBUDGETS project about sustainability budgeting related to municipal work on climate and land use planning. Useful reflections shared to inform my role as an advisor on this @uibcet.bsky.social collaboration with a range of societal partners.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · May 28

Death of a glacier, climate murder, indifferent = complicit.

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 28

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...

Properly staggering! 😮😱

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · May 28

Bearing witness: apocalypse now. For this glacier anyway.

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 28

INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · May 15

This train is gonna gather speed.

Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · May 15

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 14

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · May 14

Good things come in twos! Here's a nifty summary takeaway and links to two latest pieces by @jeremywallace.bsky.social

Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · May 14

Great article! My takeaways:
1) Is grid-scale BESS integration slower (relative to solar) than we'd expect?
2) Absent faster storage integration or more clean firm generation, coal usage will be sticky. That's why electrification sees China ADD coal capacity, albeit with an altered usage profile.

Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · May 12

I wrote a thing. Strike that. I wrote two things.

1. China's energy megabases matter. China is the first electrostate, and its megabases are key pieces that will help make the energy transition clean (even if there's still some coal).

www.thewirechina.com/2025/05/11/t...

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · May 14

A really solid contribution.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · May 14

This paper will be in a special collection edited by shining solar scholar @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues. The Dawn of Photovoltaics.. Please check out these exceptional papers. #agrivoltaics #agriculture #landusechange #energysky 🏜️🔌💡https://link.springer.com/collections/aaigciigef

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SustainableCZ @sustainablecz.bsky.social · May 13

🖊️ Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present #Transformations: a short report from our colleagues on the topic, proceedings and planned outputs of the Oslo workshop helmed by @sidsareen.bsky.social and Sirkku Juhola under www.cost-transformers.eu.

sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...

Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformations Workshop in Oslo

The recent collaborative workshop held in Oslo on 15–16 April brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of 32 scholars and practitioners from across 18 countries, including David S…

sustainablecz.org

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