I'm launching my debut novel The Hunger of Those Who Built It in Hamilton, Canada, 10 September 2026, 7-9pm, at The City & The City Books. Come along, bring a friend!

So, my solarpunk anti-capitalist sister-rivalry queer-heroine debut novel has been pre-reviewed by @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Which makes my heart sing... "Waring's thought-provoking debut ... is sure to linger in readers' minds" went straight to book design for the cover.

Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 3w ago

Publishers Weekly has released a nice review for THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT, which is Wendy Waring's literary solarpunk novel coming in September. It's solarpunk but make it darker - think Emily St. John Mandel x Kim Stanley Robinson in a gritty future Paris. www.publishersweekly...

Now look forward: For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US www.southernfriedscience.com/for-when-the...

For when the madness ends: a 5-point plan for getting conservation back on track in the US

Let’s not mince words: the last eighteen months have been an absolute nightmare for federal ocean and conservation policy. Landmark environmental protections have been rolled back or severely hobbl…

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A stanza from a 1971 poem (Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters) Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business, thousands of sons will see to it when you fall, you will grow a thousand times in the bellies of your sisters

This really is quite something. In the 15 years @carbonbrief.org have tracked UK media, 2025 was first ever year where more newspaper editorials opposed #climate action than supported it. Meanwhile, the *actual* climate crisis deepens by the month. Go figure.

Despite what petro shills insist, urban sustainability and a growing economy aren't an oxymoron. Giant map reveals thousands of cities worldwide with successful green policies www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant map reveals thousands of cities worldwide with successful green policies

Emissions from burning fossil fuels have been mapped across thousands of cities worldwide.

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1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney, Smith reach energy agreement that could see pipeline construction start in 2027 | CBC News

The federal and Alberta governments have advanced a climate and energy agreement that could see construction on an oil pipeline to the West Coast start as early as September 2027.

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incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cuba’s government said the country has completely run out of fuel oil and diesel needed to keep the lights on, with extensive blackouts sparking protests for the third day in a row this week. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Read the whole thread...

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now a new sovereign wealth fund will provide public funding for "national interest projects" like those fossil fuel expansions I've been told a thousand times he was just "calling their bluff" on. My tax dollars and yours will drive the last nail into our climate's coffin under Carney's majority. 4/

Mark Carney's all-in on fossil fuels, & the announcement of the new sovereign wealth fund is clear further escalation of that ecocidal focus. Where private investors are unwilling to take those colossal risks, your PM plans to take them with your money. 🌎🔥Arson isn't in the national interest. 🧵 1/

"There's no pockets in a shroud." Something my father used to say that came up in conversation about disgraceful aging yesterday.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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🚨 Toxic pesticides banned in other countries are still being sold freely across Africa and traces are turning up in our food. Sign this petition to demand the African Union ban them now: 👉 act.gp/427FrqN

Ban toxic pesticides across Africa

We are quite literally being poisoned in the name of profit. Add your voice now, demand that African leaders ban the production, trade, and use of toxic pesticides across the continent.

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Is the change in Sam Vimes between Jingo and The Fifth Element the greatest leap in his development? Maybe. @tansyrr.bsky.social explores Vimes in his middle three books in this new essay, at www.speculativeinsight.com Free to read - tell your #Pratchett loving friends!

This is a very good thread. Necessary. Important. Please read it. There’s an unrolled version here: skywriter.blue/@kevintmorri...

Kevin Morris@kevintmorris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

On Twitter I once shared that transport accounts for only 3-6% of food-related emissions, and the vast bulk of food emissions are from land use & ag production, and WHAT (eg beef) matters way more than WHERE. I woke up to hundreds of angry responses from people in the UK who produce or eat meat.

zatapatique@zatapatique.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My experience is that with folks of green-ish persuasion in continental europe, this is THE belief that is the hardest to talk them out of. Literally better luck with a pro-nuclear argument than with trying to pitch 'transport is not the dominant driver of food system emissions'

A more meaningful question is: Should we expect the largest climate policy in Australia to be little more than a clearinghouse for bullshit offsets...? You need to learn about the scheme to be able to change it. I have developed a couple of resources to help with that. The first is this guide:

History is made by those who show up, and that is exactly what's happening in Santa Marta. There are 60 countries here, academics from all over the world, Indigenous people, civil society, all here to do one thing: figure out how to phase out fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

Fossil Fuel Phaseout Talks Begin With Half The Global Economy

The world’s first fossil fuel phaseout conference gathers 57 countries representing over 50% of global GDP, signaling a major shift in climate policy, energy security and global markets.

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There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵

The second favourite line: 🔥👵🏻

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two favourite lines from @billmckibben.bsky.social 's great talk this evening: "Humanity has spent 700,000 years setting things on fire. But we don't need to do that any more". And the description of a sign held up at a climate protest by a group of senior citizens: "Fossils against fossil fuels"

Look! Saturday morning bleary-eyed folks! It's my cover!! MY COVER!!! Please join me in a happy dance of writerly joy!

Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 3mo ago

Hey Friday night folks! We have a little treat to share with you. It's the cover of our last 2026 book, THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT by Wendy Waring. Find out more about this literary solarpunk debut and pre-order here: www.stelliform.press...

"There is no benefit in New Zealand in destroying the biodiversity off in South Taranaki just so that an Australian mining company can dig up vanadium and give it to the US military." - Russel Norman www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Environmentalists split over revived NZ-US rare minerals deal

A resurrected minerals deal with the US is causing mixed reactions among environmentalists.

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Raise the floor.

Kimberley Johnson@kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Look! Saturday morning bleary-eyed folks! It's my cover!! MY COVER!!! Please join me in a happy dance of writerly joy!

Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 3mo ago

Hey Friday night folks! We have a little treat to share with you. It's the cover of our last 2026 book, THE HUNGER OF THOSE WHO BUILT IT by Wendy Waring. Find out more about this literary solarpunk debut and pre-order here: www.stelliform.press...

As a result of the illegal war on Iran, Canada’s oil giants are raking in billions they didn’t earn and don’t deserve. It’s time to stop war profiteering and return money back to Canadian families and communities. Take action: 350.org/canada/theyp...

Big Oil profits. We pay. Time to fix it.

Canadians are struggling to pay for gas and cover their bills – while Big Oil shareholders pocket billions in excess profits. It's time to stop war profiteering and return money back to Canadian fami...

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Earth Day isn’t a birthday party for the planet. It’s a yearly audit. Air: still polluted. Water: still poisoned. Forests: still falling. Celebration without accountability is just branding. Demand policy, not just posts. #EarthDay2026

🚨 Indonesia is greenlighting one of the largest deforestation projects on Earth: 5 MILLION acres of Papua’s pristine forest cleared for sugarcane. That’s an area bigger than Wales, gone for bioethanol and crops.