Imagining a More Just Climate Future
When we think about climate change, we often think in terms of statistics, studies, and measurements of melting glaciers, dwindling wildlife populations, and mass human migration. It’s a grim reality. But , one of the nation’s leading climate solutions media outlets, asks us to imagine a future inspired by contemporary climate-related fiction.Â
Grist has partnered with ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ to help amplify the results of its latest project, , an annual contest to celebrate short stories rooted in environmental justice and climate solutions. ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ will be publishing select entries from this contest throughout the week—find the latest stories in ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµâ€™s first Climate Futures Week here. Grist’s climate fiction creative manager Tory Stephens discussed the project with ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Senior Editor Breanna Draxler, guest-hosting ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Presents: Rising Up With Sonali.
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Sonali Kolhatkar
joined ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host†in her 2014  of the same name.
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