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Submit your story to Fix’s short story contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.

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They said ‘Black Lives Matter.’ But climate orgs haven’t lived up to the promise.

After 2020, the predominantly white environmental movement promised to diversify. A report by the watchdog group Green 2.0 found not much has changed.

Andrés Jimenez Opinion
How Big Tech can help usher in an era of climate transparency and accountability

Nonprofits, tech companies, and academic labs are collaborating on a one-stop-shop for real-time emissions data.

Camille Williams Technology
Our power grids are failing. Distributed energy resources might be our way out.

Community solar arrays, battery energy storage, and wider use of “smart” technologies to manage the nation’s electrical system could promote renewables and foster energy equity.

Adrienne Day Energy
What does hope look like in 2022?

Fix's What’s Next Issue looks at the ideas and innovations that will shape the climate conversation in 2022, a year poised to challenge, and inspire, all of us.

Jess Stahl General

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Anna Deen

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Anna Deen Food & Farming

How the Indigenous landback movement is poised to change conservation

“That transition into actually being stewards of our own landscapes again is pretty tremendous.”

Claire Elise Thompson Conservation
Climate change is stressful, scary, and sad. We’re gonna need therapy.

A psychologist’s view on how her field can help us navigate what’s to come — and transform our collective climate response.

Brianna Baker Science
Pop culture can no longer ignore our climate reality

Stories set in the present or near future will have to include the realities of a warming world if they are to be at all believable.

Andrew Liptak General
Last year, I resolved to avoid plastic. Here’s why nobody can do it alone.

You can BYO tupperware and beg for no bag, but single-use items find their way in.

Christina Cilento Opinion

22 Predictions for 2022

We asked 22 climate visionaries to forecast what’s ahead in 2022, from smarter recycling to a push for more electric-powered cities.

Fix staff Advocacy
The threads that bind

Highlights from Fix’s mentorship issue, and Ask Umbra’s holiday makeover.

Chip Giller Shift Happens Newsletter
Investors know the financial risks of climate change. The public should too.

Private companies are crunching numbers and cutting projected climate losses, while communities are left in the dark.

Sadie Frank Opinion
Water (or nut milk or wine or broth) in boxes is not better

“Eco cartons” are rarely recyclable. Here’s what earth-friendly packaging (still) looks like.

Ken McEldowney Opinion