It turns out the death panels were real all along. earth.org/why-the-us-e...

Last day to submit! But if you have something almost ready and can't make the deadline, just let us know, because this isn't elementary school. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...

This one really worries me. People want to know the facts about climate change, but last year there was even less media coverage than the previous year. Thanks to @lyndseylayton.bsky.social of @nytimes.com for pointing out that reader interest is actually on the rise.

Quote with 5 jobs you've had. - Writer/Journalist - Regional director for ESG - Nightclub manager - Babysitter - Telemarketer ... in no particular order

Even if you are not a writer, if you have strong feelings about what is going on around you, it might be time to write them down. Choose poetry, choose fiction, write an essay, or perhaps draw/paint them. Then submit them to The Apostrophe. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...

You have about a week left before the deadline to submit to The Apostrophe. Theme: FORTUNE. hkwcmagazine.substack.com

Guess who? earth.org/32-fossil-fu...

32 companies, mostly state-owned, generated half of all planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions in 2024, according to a new analysis. The number is down from 36 five years earlier. earth.org/32-fossil-fu...

"The Miss Bertrams' admiration of Mr. Crawford was more rapturous than anything which Miss Crawford's habits made her likely to feel."

We (mostly the private sector, but also some governments) put $7.3 trillion last year into destroying nature. earth.org/un-report-fi...

I just searched online for the link for the Rio targets, i.e. the targets set out by the Rio Conventions from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the AI summary gave me the financial targets for the mining company Rio Tinto. Smh.

The High Seas Treaty: two decades in the making, now in force at last - but will it translate into real action? earth.org/governments-...

Least surprising news today apnews.com/article/carb...

At The Apostrophe, we don't pay authors. We also don't charge our readers. In a perfect world, the readers would have enough money to pay and the writers would be fairly compensated. Until then, we are simply outside the monetary system. We are, nevertheless, creating and deriving value.

Jesus H. Christ on a Popsicle Stick ..... E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

20 weather records equalled or broken in Hong Kong during 2025. Via HKO: buff.ly/eOJFUfX

It feels useless to be running a literary magazine, to be writing novels, when I ought to be on the streets protesting or ... something. But creating and curating literature is the only type of protesting I know. So I will have to stick with it.

Are you writing a book but you're not sure where to go with it yet? Why not submit a chapter to The Apostrophe? We love stories, poetry, novel chapters, essays, hybrid, and art. hkwcmagazine.substack.com

One thing we get relatively few of at The Apostrophe is science fiction - it's odd, considering I'm a sci-fi / cli-fi writer myself. We like submissions from all genres, but we tend to receive literary short stories and a handful of poems. The deadline is January 31! hkwcmagazine.substack.com

Make it your new year's resolution to submit to The Apostrophe - the lit mag that curates and publishes just five pieces of writing per quarter. We are eager for non-fiction (essays, memoir, etc.) as well as novellas, novel chapters, poetry, stories, etc. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/our-theme-...

And they say HK has an ambition gap! This is quite the thread.

At the press conference by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. He tends to pronounce "fossil fuels" as "fossil fools". I'm wondering whether this is on purpose.

Year in Review: The Biggest Climate Headlines of 2025

2/ HKFP is Hong Kong's only English-language newspaper producing free-of-charge, deep dive features -- all thanks to our members: hongkongfp.com/support-hong... - gift, or annual, memberships now avail.

If you thought all #climate fiction was dystopian, this bucks the trend. A great book, chock full of great ideas and a surprise ending. @janleewriter.bsky.social climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/it-all-dep... #clifi

The title for the anthology resulting from our Green Stories Flash fiction competition will be 'The Last Plastic Fork' after the winning story. We need a review for the front cover - please get in touch if you can help 🙏 #writerscommunity #blueskywriter #climatefiction #ecofiction

Ever wonder what the authors behind the climate fiction books sound like? Check out this panel with Kim Stanley Robinson (Ministry for the Future) and Jan Lee (Fairhaven). fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/narratives...

A good way to remember alt text is to make it required in your own Bluesky settings.

Xmas. Time to remember I have an AmEx card that I rarely use, but which has somehow accumulated a bunch of points, and to donate those points to charity.

I have a piece in this anthology, if anyone is looking for a good Xmas gift. www.snowflakeculture.com/product-page...

A story to dream about. Text by Nolo Segundo. Art by Carl Scharwath. open.substack.com/pub/hkwcmaga...

Today's piece in The Apostrophe is an amazing concrete poem that you have to see to truly appreciate. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/babel

95% of Europeans Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Air Pollution As Report Links it to 279,000 Premature Deaths in 2023

Buy a book. Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever. Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.

Today's piece in The Apostrophe is a story with a back story. hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/black-sun

For all of us who are too hard on ourselves: take a moment to read this beautiful poem by Vanessa Ho K. S. (art by Julianne Ng). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/a-reminder...

Today a bank's AI chatbot - clearly, they'd invested $$$ for it - instructed me to fill in a "smartform". This was PDF form based on a version Adobe stopped supporting in 2011. It was so "smart" that to get it to work, I had to allow Microsoft Edge to run in "Internet Explorer mode".

This wild perversion of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement is exactly what @greenprofgreen.bsky.social talks about in her book "Existential Politics". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Issue 11 of The Apostrophe starts today! The Bride by Julian Lyden (art by Dave Walker). hkwcmagazine.substack.com/p/the-bride

Açaí was the world's superfood for a hot minute, but Brazil's always been at the heart of this $1 billion industry. (I tried açaí for the 1st time last week!) But the seed makes up 80% of the berry - and huge waste. Now, a startup is making the waste into biochar. earth.org/acai-the-ama...

Chapter 6 of my new novel is online now. Some of the characters go to a conference. It isnt what they hoped for. (Is it ever?) fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...

Okay, the Gender Action Plan is adopted ... so the problems of gender and climate are all going to be fixed now, right? earth.org/closing-the-...

Why are we still stuck on coal? There is a way out. earth.org/one-third-of...

Chapter 5 of The Desert Songbird - A Novel of Climate Optimism. Mahtab is trying another career. fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...

A poignant scene in Lisboa

Chapter 4 - basically, the worst date you've ever been on. Read the #COP30 sneak preview of "The Desert Songbird - A Novel of Climate Optimism" here: fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...

Chapter 3 or my new novel, The Desert Songbird, is online in a sneak preview - yes, it takes place on a golf course (hence "Links"). fairhavenclimatenovel.substack.com/p/the-desert...

We don't usually think of soil as being a source of carbon emissions but when it degrades, it is. There's a huge amount of carbon locked in soil. earth.org/soil-is-bigg...

There were rather a lot of protests at #COP30. Good thing or bad thing? My take is that it is the consequence of free speech... earth.org/peoples-cop-...