This essay from my dear friend Holden & I, now in the world! It's the first seed from our brand-new tiny press devoted to building community with those writing toward livable tomorrows. This project feels like solace & possibility amidst constant crises,& we get to pay writers, so send work our way!

28.02.2025 13:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

23.02.2025 23:44 — 👍 12153    🔁 4370    💬 54    📌 143

"Underlying all this is an old assumption by many elites, especially the authoritarian and fascist variety, that ordinary people are weak, timid, fearful. ... They also tend to think we are selfish and operate only out of self-interest because they think we're like them."

05.02.2025 18:34 — 👍 206    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 1

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

05.02.2025 13:26 — 👍 5404    🔁 881    💬 54    📌 12

Call for Submissions open now! For Flooded Pine Press' debut series, “Finding Joy and Solidarity in the New England Anthropocene, we're looking for pieces of 6,000 to 10,000 words across genres that speculate, locate, and critique, reckoning with our current crisis and visioning us forward. (1/2)

04.02.2025 13:20 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Hello! Introducing: Flooded Pine Press, an endeavor by two editors to speculate toward livable tomorrows and against the recent right-wing swing of American politics. We're here to gather and circulate writing that imagines local actions toward a flourishing future. (1/2)

01.02.2025 18:25 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 3

Community energy for a just transition: breaking the stereotype - Regen Regen was commissioned by the National Energy System OperaRegen has sent a letter to the Secretary of State to ask about the ‘needed’ status of local and community energy in the government’s soon-to-b...

"More often than not, community energy groups are using revenues generated from community-owned turbines and solar farms to support people in fuel poverty, playing a key role for dozens of thousands of people through the energy crisis"

Such a great post by @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social

10.12.2024 12:10 — 👍 247    🔁 89    💬 6    📌 7

A North Carolina town is suing utility Duke Energy over climate change A small North Carolina town is suing Duke Energy for costs from climate change, claiming the utility knew its fossil fuel power plants were heating the planet and deceived the public.

The small town of Carrboro, North Carolina is suing one of the country's largest electric utilities, Duke Energy, over climate change -- here's my story for @npr.org

www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

04.12.2024 14:35 — 👍 615    🔁 162    💬 19    📌 30

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin

14.11.2024 01:24 — 👍 359    🔁 133    💬 1    📌 2