ContentsSummer 2022
Branch Issue 4: The Open Climate Edition. Cover illustration by Aravani Art Project (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Welcome
Letter from the Editors
Michelle Thorne, Babitha George and Shannon Dosemagen
Conversation With Branch’s Cover Artists
Aravani Art Project
Open Climate Then and Now
Shannon Dosemagen, Emilio Velis, Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Evelin Heidel, Michelle Thorne, Alex Stinson
Solarpunk and Repair
garden.local
Taeyoon Choi
NORCO
Geography of Robots
After-Times® M22 HD
Deepa Bhasthi
The Repair Shop 2049: Mending Things and Mobilising the Solarpunk Aesthetic
Paul Coulton, Tom Macpherson-Pope, Michael Stead
Solar-Centered Designing: An Eccentric Proposal
Andres Colmenares
Climate Justice Now
Climate Justice: The Debt Is Not On Us
Brisetha Hendricks, Kristophina Shilongo
A Call to Action for Environmental Justice in Tech
Sanjana Paul
New Research on Climate Justice and Digital Rights
Fieke Jansen
The Different Intersections of Digital rights and Climate
Shannon Dosemagen, Evelin Heidel, Emelia Williams, Katie Hoeberling
The Power of Open
Map of the Future
Shayna Robinson
Wikipedians Reimagine Open Climate in the African Context
Maxwell Beganim, Otuo-Acheampong Boakye, Euphemia Uwandu
Critical Openness and Digital Sustainability
Emilio Velis
African Traditional Knowledge and Open Science for Climate Mitigation
Thomas Mboa, Ahou Rachel Koumi
Sentinels
Anna Berti Suman
Slow Tech, Hi Craft
Slowing Down AI with Speculative Friction
Bogdana Rakova
River Walks, Mutual Aid and Open Futures
Siddharth Agarwal
Enough
Michelle Cheripka
Alternative Computing Environments
Computing from the South / Computação do Sul
TC Silva, LF Murillo, Vince Tozzi, Francisco Caminati, Alice Bonafé, Junior Paixão, Mariana Rocha Arduini , Djakson Filho, Layla Xavier
Learning from COWs: Community Owned Wifi-Mesh
TB Dinesh, Shafali Jain, Sanketh Kumar, Micah Alex
Smarter, Greener Cities through Community, Open Data and Systems Thinking
Sruti Modekurty
Tech’s Environmental Impact
Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.
Maddie Stone, Grist
Environmental Impact Assessment of Open Technology
Allie Novak, Shannon Dosemagen
Boavizta Project: Assessing the Environmental Impact of Digital Technology with Open Tools
Eric Fourboul, David Ekchajzer
The Fermi Problem of Climate Change
Anna Knörr
Fossil-Free Internet
The People’s Cloud: Manifesting Community and Eco-led Digital Spaces
Sarah Kearns
CO2.js: An Open Library for Digital Carbon Reporting
Fershad Irani
Library Love
Social Infrastructure Is What Love Looks Like in Public
Mai Ishikawa Sutton
Leading with Slow Craft
Nate Hill
Changing Soft Adaptation Limits, Seed By Seed
Daniela Soleri, Rebecca Newburn, Nate Kleinman, Mary K Johnson, Hayden Kesterson, Nick P Wrenn