interview

Volts Podcast

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I got to talk about my research on how to manage the gas transition and build out clean energy infrastructure on the energy podcast, Volts. You can check out the podcast on your favorite app or view the transcript and listen to the show here.

What we have right now is this top-heavy system. It’s like this spinning top that has started to wobble and it’s the inertia of the past that’s keeping it going. But we have too much investment up top and not enough utilization at the bottom. That’s going to continue to wobble. Once the momentum runs out, the costs aren’t going to disappear. Instead, the people left on the system the longest are going to be shouldering those accelerating costs. That’s the importance of managing the transition so it doesn’t happen that way.

Interview + Review of Fossils

By admin in Book Review, broadside, Fossils in the Making, interview

Several years ago I had the pleasure of participating in the “broadsides on the bus” public art exhibit in Moscow, Idaho, during which a local artist made a broadside of one of my poems that then adorned the public buses for some time.

The press that orchestrates these visual / textual collaborations, Broadsided Press, has reviewed the book in which that poem later appeared–Fossils in the Making–and asked me some questions about my poetry:

Kristin George Bagdanov’s Fossils in the Making reminds me that, at their best, poetry and science are inherently inseparate pursuits. In the tradition of many contemporary poets and their predecessors trying to make sense of living in, looking at, and loving a world that’s also semi-constantly on the verge (or in the midst) of its own unmaking, Fossils offers poems that meditate and meander, that question and sing. This is a book that looks hard at this world in all its complications and somehow lands on something that doesn’t feel quite cynical—there’s joy in these pages, as well as real, difficult reckoning. I’m saying I loved it: I will try to say why.

Read the full interview and review by Joely Fitch here.