@mmcavanagh.bsky.social
environmental writer & journalist | work in the atlantic, london review of books, LA review of books, lithub, die zeit, hazlitt | PRESENT TENSE coming spring '27 @thenewpress.bsky.social + mcclelland & stewart
delighted to have joined @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on his show on ireland's newstalk yesterday to chat about my story about my wind-powered cargo ship journey in the guardian from last week: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
25.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On the show today: @bjacollins.bsky.social on the unity dividend; @henrymckean.bsky.social on dumping season; Rich people & gold toilets; How Ireland deports; @toxicolly.bsky.social reviews The Death of Bunny Munro,
Mormon Wives & Stranger Things; @mmcavanagh.bsky.social on sailing cargo ships
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry.
@mmcavanagh.bsky.social
Check out @mmcavanagh.bsky.social's brilliant story about the future of shipping! #TransatlanticMediaFellowship
20.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
for @theguardian.com, i spent two weeks aboard the groundbreaking neoliner origin, the world's largest wind-powered cargo ship, on its inaugural transatlantic voyage.
hurricane-force winds, dolphins and sea sickness ahoy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
with support from @boellus.bsky.social
Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is excited to announce the Canadian creators, publishers and organizations who have been awarded Professional Development Grants for 2025. www.acfoundation.ca/2025/08/06/a...
07.08.2025 17:17 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1wow! completely honoured to be nominated for a digital publishing award, and in such good company
06.05.2025 16:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
DEAL NEWS - Michaela Cavanagh’s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World!
Read more here: transatlanticagency.com/2025/03/24/d...
Dream life update: 🚨☁️: I'm thrilled to share that I'm writing a book! I feel so lucky that PRESENT TENSE found a home with
@thenewpress.bsky.social and McClelland & Stewart (Penguin Random House Canada). And all thanks to Sam Haywood and the team at @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social ✨
4. "The Hideaway," @mmcavanagh.bsky.social @hazlitt.bsky.social
"Ben Green expects doom and his remote, self-sufficient farm is his refuge should society end as we know it. Cavanagh, though, sees something more like potential."
hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...
@mmcavanagh.bsky.social wrote an essay for @hazlitt.bsky.social about her week with a climate doomer.
hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...
In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green is preparing for the end of the world. For @hazlitt.bsky.social, @mmcavanagh.bsky.social
spent a week with him to find out what exactly it looks like to try to escape climate collapse: hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...
"At the Collapse Lab, Ben gathered like-minded people who believed that climate collapse wasn’t just imminent, it was happening now.... I was curious. Collapse-curious, I joked to my friends..." The Hideaway by @mmcavanagh.bsky.social for @hazlitt.bsky.social.
04.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Featured #longreads today are from @mmcavanagh.bsky.social (in @hazlitt.bsky.social) and The Ringer today. See the rest of today's #longform selection on the website, and subscribe to get them in your inbox daily.
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a year later i’m still asking myself: how can we cope with uncertainty as we oscillate between doom and hope?
i’m grateful to have had the chance to work it out for hazlitt.bsky.social: hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...
(and to @ameliaschonbek.bsky.social for the clear-eyed and thoughtful edits!)
at the Collapse Laboratory, ben gathered like-minded people who believed that climate collapse wasn’t just imminent, it was happening now — and that we needed to think deeply about how to show up for it. and i was curious.
04.12.2024 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0our host was a man named ben green (@thepirateben.bsky.social) in 2019, he bought the biggest, cheapest, most isolated piece of land he could find in germany and started what he calls “one man’s ten-year plan to build a post-climate catastrophe community”.
04.12.2024 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0last summer i spent a week living in an old army barracks-turned-eco-bunker, deep in the east german forest.
i was there for the Collapse Laboratory, a retreat that brought people together to think about how to prepare for the end of the world.
for the LA review of books i wrote about c pam zhang’s novel Land of Milk and Honey — about pleasure, survival and catastrophe — and the shrinking margin between dystopia and reality: lareviewofbooks.org/article/find...
28.01.2024 15:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0for @theatlantic.bsky.social i wrote about lytton, the canadian town still waiting to move home after it burned to the ground in 2021. what can it teach us about how to rebuild resiliently after a climate disaster?
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
oslo city hall appreciation post
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