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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New from Imagine 2200: an Afro-futurist climate story about survival and memory. Read it here: grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Black #Afrofuturist

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Climate Week NYC: 1,000+ events, one week. What was actually worth it? 70 people have weighed in. Help me get to 100 so we can see real patterns. 4 minutes, anonymous, and I'll share the results. If you were there, please take the survey: forms.gle/ULg5VkFBoufr... #ClimateWeekNYC #Climate

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New Climate Fiction from Imagine 2200! What happens when a hitchhiker stranded far from home meets a bus full of passengers who all have somewhere to be? Read it here: lnkd.in/g2rH7Gk6 #Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Climate

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If climate fiction is your thing, don't miss this. June 10 I'm hosting Vandana Singh, Sheree Renée Thomas & Wole Talabi on how speculative storytelling shapes what futures feel possible. Free on Zoom | 11am ET. RSVP here: luma.com/19l5xgr9 #CliFi #Solarpunk #Climate #Fiction

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Agog just announced its first open call: Climate Futures and Immersive Media. $25K–$200K grants for artists, organizers, researchers, technologists, and studios working on climate projects. No XR experience required. Deadline: June 12 → agog.org/opencall2026 #Media #Climate #Solarpunk #CliFI

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I work at @grist.org . I also subscribe to Looking Forward. Not redundant — genuinely necessary. Claire never lets me down. Hopeful without being hollow. Solutions focused without being naive. Free, every Friday. grist.org/signup/looki... #Climate #Solarpunk #CliFi #News #Environment

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We're addicted to dystopian stories. And we wonder why people feel hopeless. I talked with Autumn Brown about what climate fiction can do that news can't, and what we lose when our stories are culturally and spiritually flat. Link here thebtscenter.org/climate-chan... #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Reminder 🌿 I’m facilitating a 5-day spiritual retreat for eco-writers engaging climate stories with care, slowness, and grounding. 📍 North Andover, MA | 🗓 July 13–17, 2026 Learn more: thebtscenter.org/ecowriters/ #Writers #BosPoli #Massachusetts #WritingCommunity #WritersLife

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Excited to support the Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding, coming to NYC April 25–26, 2026. Bringing together 100+ Indigenous peacebuilders to share knowledge, healing, and community solutions. www.indigenouspeacebuildersnetwork.org #Indigenous #Peace #Gender #HumanRights #Justice

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Looking for climate fiction that isn’t all doom? Imagine 2200 sends hope-filled climate stories straight to your inbox — free, thoughtful, and rooted in justice and possibility. Subscribe here: go.grist.org/signup/imagi... #Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #Climate

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New Climate One episode: “Inside the Chaotic, Lucrative ‘Disaster Economy’ with Grist” — featuring interviews with Naveena Sadasivam and @Ayurella Horn-Muller on their reporting. Worth a listen. www.climateone.org/audio/inside... #Podcast #Climate #Disaster

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Kaine: Trump conducted ‘unauthorized’ military attack on Venezuela thehill.com/homenews/sen... #Venezuela #Congress

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Quick thread 🧵 This one hits close to home. An NYU student is facing an $8,895 bill due to an internal university error — right before the holidays.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Black Communities, Legacy Pollution, and The Path Forward From forced labor to forced exposure, Black communities still bear the burden of pollution and environmental injustices rooted in slavery and systemic racism. plantationstopollution.selc.org?utm_source=G... #BlackSky #Environment

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The #Grist50 is full of inspiring people making real change. A great dose of hope and climate solutions when we need it most. Take a look at the full list: grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Climate #Solarpunk #Leaders #Hope #GreenSky #Prisons #Health #Business #Tech

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Heading out the door for #ClimateWeekNYC 🌍 but had to pause + highlight #Grist50 honoree Bonnetta Adeeb. She’s preserving culturally significant seeds + building resilient food systems through the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance. 🌱 grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Seeds #Food #Farming #Farms #

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

💧 Fletcher Sams is Juliette, GA’s fiercest clean water advocate. From testing 300+ wells to forcing action on toxic coal ash, he’s taken Georgia Power to task & delivered safe water to his community. 🌊 grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #GA #Georgia #Water #Coal #Toxic #Health Fin for now!

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

4/5 🔥 After Maui’s deadly 2023 fire, Nadezna Ortega co-founded Tagnawa to ensure Lahaina’s Filipino community wasn’t left behind. From translation aid to advocacy, she’s turning recovery into justice. 🌺 grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #Maui #Hawaii #Filipino #Lahaina

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

3/5 🌱 Next up: Caroline Cotto wants plant-based meats to actually taste good. At Nectar, she runs blind taste tests to help brands improve flavor & win over meat lovers. Because climate wins when dinner tastes better. 🍔✨ #Grist50 grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Food #Meat #Environment #Veggies

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

1/2 Meet Tonya Hicks, a barrier-breaking electrician and entrepreneur reshaping the EV world. From being the first Black woman journeyman electrician in Mississippi to launching sheEV, Tonya is making EVs safer & more accessible for women everywhere. Read here: grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

5/5 🚲 Former PE teacher Sam “Coach” Balto started a “bike bus” for kids to ride to school together. Now there are 200+ across the U.S.—building safety, health & climate action on two wheels. grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #Bicycle #Bikes #Biking #School #Kids #Transportation

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

4/5 🌲 Nikola Alexandre co-founded Shelterwood Collective, a #queer- & BIPOC-led project restoring 900 acres in CA. He’s growing a generation of forest stewards & bringing that vision to global scale. grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #Forest #ReWilding #ReWild #Trees #Nature #Environment

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

3/5 🎨 Nicole Kelner turns watercolors into a climate “Trojan Horse” — playful art that makes complex issues relatable, sparks action, and teaches others to create climate art too. grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #Art #Watercolors #Paint #Culture #Climate #Media

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

2/5 🌍 Meet Ufuoma Ovienmhada, a geospatial data scientist mapping how prisons face toxic heat, storms & contamination. Her work exposes carceral environmental injustice and fuels real change. grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50 #Prisons #BlackSky #Heat #Jails #Incarceration

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

1/5 In this thread I'll share a few honorees. 🌱First up is Zoelie Rivera-Ocasio is turning soil into a cultural movement in the Caribbean — blending science, art, and community to show soil as memory, identity & healing. 🌱 grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Grist50

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🔥 The 2025 @grist.org 50 list just dropped! 50 bold leaders proving climate solutions & justice are alive and thriving. From art to science to local action — meet the changemakers shaping our future. 🌍✨ grist.org/fix/grist-50... #Climate #Policy #Media #Arts #Food #Business #Culture #Energy

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

1/1 Thread 🌍 One of the most promising—and least talked about—climate solutions I’ve come across? Networked #geothermal heat pumps. #Energy

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Climate storytelling tip I swear by: Start with the genre you love—then weave in climate themes with intention. Don’t lead with “climate fiction.” Lead with story. #ClimateFiction #Writers #Write #Solarpunk #Literature

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Birmingham deserves a better story. Join us for the first public screening of As Goes The South — a powerful new doc reframing Birmingham's past, present, and future. Free screening A.H. Parker High School Auditorium: bit.ly/3UelNpf Let’s tell a new story for the South. #Birmingham #AL #Alabama

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This might interest this group. It's an interview I did with Brazilian anarchist, geography teacher, and climate fiction / Solarpunk author Danilio Heitor. www.linkedin.com/posts/toryst.... #Climate #Fiction #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #QandA #Interview #Anarchist #Geography #Brazil #EcoFiction

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

NEW Short Climate Fiction! The Hunger and the Hunger A former guerilla fighter struggles to explain his past when he finds himself in a land without poverty or want. grist.org/climate-fict... #Climate #Fiction #CliFi #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #BookSky

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Noticing fewer fireflies this year? You're not alone! I'm breaking down why, and what we can do about it, in this thread. #Fireflies #Nature #Climate #Environment

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

(1/3) 🌱 "They’ve always had plans for us all to die." THE SEED DROPPER by @simone banks @grist.org floored me. A Black man returns to his flood-ravaged Louisiana hometown to plant seeds—and confront the ghosts of environmental racism. #Fiction #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Literature #Climate

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Glitch is online! 🌸 #Blossomwatch is LIVE. Meet glitch, a cyberbug turning grey streets green. Plot, plant & play at blossomwatch.bug0.io. Chat, explore biodiversity & map green gaps. #Glitchxnt #Solarpunk #SeedBomb #Climate #Native #Plants #trees

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

4/ And yes, I’ve heard about SMRs. No, they’re not a magic bullet. But they help. Let's talk about those too! #Energy #nuclear #Environment #GreenSky #Solarpunk

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

3/ #Renewables alone could work—if we had infinite land, time, and minerals. But we don’t. #IPCC says we need #nuclear to hit net-zero. So: If you oppose it, what’s your realistic alternative? If you support it, why aren’t we yelling louder? Let's talk nuclear energy!

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

1/ Everyone loves #solar/ #wind (as they should). But nobody wants to talk about the one zero-carbon energy source that works when it’s dark + windless + needs 100x less land. Why is #nuclear the only climate solution people hate more than fossil fuels? A thread🧵 and invitation to chat💬.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

8/ An ethylene oxide warning sign is seen at the Santa Teresa facility. #Health #Cancer #Workers

Photo of a An ethylene oxide warning sign is seen at the Santa Teresa facility. Ivan Pierre Aguirre / Grist

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

4/25 Photo of Cindy Martinez sweeping the street as her granddaughter, Emerie, plays. Their home is directly behind the Cardinal Health warehouse in East El Paso.

Photo of Cindy Martinez sweeping the street as her granddaughter, Emerie, plays. Their home is directly behind the Cardinal Health warehouse in East El Paso."

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

1/25 The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain A family in El Paso, TX had no idea their dream home was exposing them to dangerous levels of a cancer-causing chemical—until it was too late. #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalJustice #Climate #ElPaso #TX A thread on this whole investigation and story

A photo of a neighborhood where the backyards are right up against a Cardinal Health warehouse in El Paso Texas. the two spaces look starkly different.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

5/ “The law of the sea colonized our ocean,” says Frank Murphy of French Polynesia. The 1982 #UN treaty carved up the Pacific for mining claims—without Indigenous consent. Now, leaders like Solomon Kahoʻohalahala are demanding a seat at the table.

Solomon Kahoʻohalahala speaks at the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica. He was invited to attend by Greenpeace and received the advocacy organization’s observer status.
Courtesy of Solomon Kahoʻohalahala

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

2/ Imagine machines the size of houses scraping the ocean floor 2+ miles deep, sucking up potato-sized nodules packed with #cobalt, #nickel, and #copper—key minerals for EVs, phones, and weapons. The cost? Unknown species crushed, ecosystems smothered, and Indigenous sacred sites violated.

Types of deep-sea mining. by Amelia K. Bates / Grist

A ship is on the water and it has three wires that are connected to three digging machines that are anywhere from 800 meters to 6,000 long.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

1/ The Pacific Ocean isn’t just water—it’s a graveyard of ancient history, a source of life, and now, the target of a $20 trillion mining rush. But who gets to decide its fate? Indigenous peoples, whose ancestors sailed these waters for millennia, are fighting to protect it. 🧵 #Ocean

Solomon Kahoʻohalahala holds a rope on Hōkūleʻa during a sail from Tahiti to Marquesas in 1987. The sail was called Hōkūleʻa’s “Voyage of Re-discovery.” Courtesy of Solomon Kahoʻohalahala

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olomon Kaho’ohalahala speaks during a launch event for the Greenpeace report “30×30: From Global Ocean Treaty to Protection at Sea,” aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in Long Beach, California, in 2023. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A thread on Deep #Sea #Mining. The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls the #Pacific’s Seabed—And Why You Should Care. This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. A thread🧵...

A deep sea mining boat at port, at sunset or sunrise.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. #filmsky 🎥 💙 #filmchallenge #20dayfilmchallenge Day 1! ✨

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

9/ For people like Mark Broyles, the end of the food box program means rethinking how to feed his family. While he has some frozen produce to rely on, he worries about the future. #Food #Hunger

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Robert Desio of the Northern Illinois Food Bank says the loss of bonus commodities like meat and eggs will reduce the quality and quantity of food they can provide to 570,000 residents. #Hunger #Food #FoodBanks

A shelf with a variety of canned goods and a Please donate food large can for drop off items sits heavily in the photo frame.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Here a thread on the USDA’s decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid. Layoffs, supply shortfalls, and hunger continues to climb. Here's the article this is sourced from: grist.org/food-and-agr... #Hunger #Food #Foodbanks #DOGE Thread 🧵:

A man at a food bank in a red shirt is touching a box labeled, "fresh vegetables." The man has tattoo's on his arm, and a beard.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m at storyteller in the climate space. It hasn’t always been that way. 10 years ago I owned a #streetwear #brand called False Prophet. I woke up today reminiscing about that life. I miss our street life fam.

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