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Michaela Cavanagh

@mmcavanagh.bsky.social
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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

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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
On 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
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ECIU @eciu.net · 20/11/2025
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
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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
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Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, DC @boellus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Check out @mmcavanagh.bsky.social's brilliant story about the future of shipping! #TransatlanticMediaFellowship
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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
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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
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Access Copyright @accesscopyright.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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...
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Access Copyright Foundation Invests $60,000 Into Professional Development
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 G...
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
wow! completely honoured to be nominated for a digital publishing award, and in such good company
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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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DEAL NEWS - Michaela Cavanagh’s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World!
Award-winning journalist Michaela Cavanagh’s PRESENT TENSE: How We Reckon With the End of the World, a globe-spanning work of environmental reportage journeying through the emotional landscape of the ...
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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 ✨
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Longreads @longreads.com · 20/12/2024
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...
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt
In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world
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Study Hall @studyhall.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
@mmcavanagh.bsky.social wrote an essay for @hazlitt.bsky.social about her week with a climate doomer. hazlitt.net/longreads/hi...
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt
In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world
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Amelia Schonbek @ameliaschonbek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt
In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world
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Meera Subramanian @meerasub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"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.
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The Hideaway | Hazlitt
In an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany, Ben Green prepares for the end of the world
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The Slow Scroll @theslowscroll.com · 05/12/2024
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. theslowscroll.com/the-hideaway-and-freedom/
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The Hideaway & Freedom
A man prepares for the end of the world in an abandoned military barracks in rural Germany. Also, a Syrian journalist records a journey through repression.
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
last 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.
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
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...
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Finding Pleasure in Survival: On C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey” | Los Angeles Review o...
Michaela Cavanagh reviews C Pam Zhang’s “Land of Milk and Honey.”...
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
for @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...
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Michaela Cavanagh @mmcavanagh.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
oslo city hall appreciation post
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