At its core, Field Notes is a project intended to open new terrains for scholarship, organizing, contestation, and struggle in the fight for a globally just Green New Deal.

Field Notes endeavors to make the historical and ongoing effects of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism on people and communities legible where it was obfuscated; it avoids proposing totalizing solutions and instead invites others to bring more situated forms of knowledge and built environment production to bear on the

global energy transition; and it is more akin to an ongoing set of dispatches than a single, standalone report of a view from 30,000 feet of the climate crisis and our many possible futures on this planet. To hold this otherwise cacophonous material together, Field Notes is organized around a set of shared principles. 

Deforestation world map Deforestation In addition to reducing deforestation and planting trees, we must also address the socio-economic patterns that continue to subsidize oil and gas…
The range and spectre of extinct species affected by the Sixth Extinction Mass Extinction When a species vanishes, it is a single twig or stem on the tree. But how can we conceptualize a mass extinction, one in which limbs are excised or…
Map of the globe showing global design praxis Global Design Praxis In the time of upheaval and crisis, what is the point of landscape architecture?
Map of the globe showing mega infrastructure projects Megaprojects A megaproject is commonly understood as any project that has nominally spent at least one billion USD on its research, development, and…
Map of the Arctic Polar Regions The Arctic and Antarctic are spaces largely defined by competing land claims, artifacts of the long histories of colonialism, exploitation, and…
Image showing hydroelectricity generation Supply Matrix The supply chain is a term used to obscure the otherwise unruly and cacophonous network of raw materials, labor, logistics, processing, and…
Map of the globe showing location of oil and gas reserves Oil and Gas (Un)Reserves Oil and gas reserves are assemblages of knowledge, technology, and political economies that are actively and purposefully constructed in order to…
Map of the globe showing location of rare earth mineral deposits Rare Earth Elements Rare earth minerals, essential ingredients in digital and renewable energy technology, are not so much rare as hard to separate from other elements…
The internet as digital and physical space Digital Infrastructures The material footprint of the Internet extends far wider than just cables, data centers, and cell phones.
Map of global agriculture Global Agriculture Examining the global footprint of industrialized agriculture raises a series of critical questions: who owns these consolidated commodity crop farms…
Map of the globe showing FDI output for France International Development Traditional international development policy and foreign direct investment support the capitalist system actively causing Climate Change, and must be…
Map of the globe showing rate of global incarceration Global Carceral Infrastructure The US, where more people are incarcerated in some individual states than many individual countries, is the laboratory of carceral “innovation,” a…
Map of the globe showing planetary militarization expenditure as a percentage of GDP Planetary Militarization Planetary militarization extends beyond the surface. From the seafloor to the atmospheric ceiling, the world has been and is being remade by the…
Map of the globe showing location of nuclear weapons Nuclearization The advent of nuclear weapons gave rise to a global path dependence forged by geopolitical conflict, mass militarization, and an energy transition.…
World map showing the income index Global Climate Justice Effects of the Climate Crisis will strike communities disadvantaged by the global economic system the hardest, as wealthier nations and communities…
Map of the globe showing political regimes Political Regimes The practices of identifying common enemies, deeming certain people and regions as expendable, and delineating a clear and militarized border are…
Map of the globe showing national borders and the EEZ Borders The world’s current configuration of borders is naturalized through nation-state discourses, providing a tenuous system for geographic parceling of…