The lands and waters of the Finger Lakes region have been inscribed with colonial names that, over time, have come to seem like the only possible designations for these places. But what alternative rural and urban configurations have these lands undergone, what other names have shaped these spaces, and how can we experience the landscape…
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Hydropower has long been heralded as “clean,” “green” energy. Yet living in Akwesasne, just a few kilometers away from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, it seems that almost every one of its approximately 13,000 residents is either sick or has a family member that is sick. And every indication suggests a link to the power dam. How…
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Greenidge Generation LLC is one example of a decommissioned industrial plant that has been revitalized into one of the largest cryptocurrency mines in the country. Bitcoin mining facilities devote huge quantities of computational power to solving cryptographic problems, resulting in insane energy grid demands. Old power plants in industrial regions (like those found in New…
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