Archive - Katie Singer's Substack

Who will win the water: computers or living creatures?

Water doesn’t need us to save her—she needs us to remember we are her.

Jul 11 •

June 2025

BEWARE of ChatGPT: Like Every Technology, Using It Has Consequences

If awareness can improve decisions, then here’s helpful information: MIT researchers studied 54 ChatGPT users over four months, and found that using an…

Jun 21 •

Opening for Respectful Discussion of Solar PVs and Other Complex Technologies

I keep thinking about an old Kaiser study: if someone believes firmly in one idea—say that the Earth is flat—and then hears that the Earth is round, the…

Jun 5 •

May 2025

I Don't Want It But I Need It: A.I. Literacy

“Grace” called me last week.

May 17 •

Expanded thinking expands our world

On Earth Day, The New York Times admirably stated that climate change is not our root problem.

May 1 •

April 2025

Inspired to depend less on international supply chains, more on community

When Trump began announcing tariffs on imported goods, I wondered if consumers would notice the perilous nature of depending on international supply…

Apr 16 •

Can I keep within my ecological means when I need a new computer? Honestly, no.

While I pondered what living within my ecological and financial means would look like, my email provider cut me off: my 2011 computer is no longer…

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Call me poor, call me rich

If you want a sustainable society, a friend once explained, aim to meet the needs of the poor.

Mar 21 •

CALL ME A LOCALIST

While radical, daily policy changes make the whole world precarious, I wonder how to keep healthy and survive—how to sleep well every night, have a good…

Mar 9 •

February 2025

Remembering Arthur Firstenberg

May 28, 1950 – February 25, 2025

Feb 28 •

A Tale of Two Counties & Two Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)

On a recent podcast with Nate Hagens, “The Future is Local,” Daniel Christian Wahl explained that we can’t solve our problems nationally or…

Feb 18 •

Images from the techno-sphere

While I finish a report about a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Moss Landing, California and a proposed one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I’ve got…

Feb 12 •

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