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Carbon Removal for a Just Transition (coauthored with Sara Nawaz, Duncan McLaren, Holly Caggiano, and Celina Scott-Buechler) — Climate Policy, 2024.

Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It? — solarshades.club. Republished in Speculative Insight and Long Now Ideas.

Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal (co-authored with Sara Nawaz, Duncan McLaren, Holly Caggiano, Matthias Honegger, and Celina Scott-Buechler) — American University Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, 2024.

Zero Emissions Is Not Enough. We Need Climate Repair. — Jacobin, 2022.

“Business is Booming, Nevermind the Climate,” a Conversation with Sarah Blake — Climate Fiction Writers League newsletter, 2022

Interview with Amy Brady — Burning Worlds newsletter, 2022.

Speculating on our Climate Future — interview in ASU News, 2022.

Nothing Here But Five Climate Futures — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2022.

Make It So: The Clippy Theory of Star Trek Action — Sci-Fi TV Interfaces, 2022.

Our Shared Storm: An Interview with Andrew Dana Hudson — Solarpunk Magazine, 2022

What can science fiction tell us about the future of artificial intelligence policy? (with Ed Finn and Ruth Wylie) — AI & SOCIETY, 2021.

Solarpunk: A new anthology of speculative fiction counters dystopias with hopeful futures — written interview response in Scroll.In, 2021

Talking to Terrestrials — World Weaver Press Blog, 2021.

Rendering the Living — Medium, 2020.

Normalcy — Medium, 2020. Reprinted in Oasis: In Isolation, 2020.

Moving the Beaches, Moving the Seas — World Weaver Press Blog, 2020.

What does it mean to BE a solarpunk? — Solarpunks.net, 2019.

Nothing Here But Anti-Police Insurgency — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2021.

Nothing Here But Us Solar Powered Punks — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2019.

Why Climate Fiction? — Imaginary Papers, 2019. Reprinted in the Climate Fiction Writers League newsletter, 2023.

Lessons from the History of Environmentalism (as part the DSA Ecosocialist Working Group Research Subcommittee) — Socialist Forum, 2019.

Ghost Stories in the Machine — Imaginary Papers, 2018.

Tech & the left interview #3 — Fully Automated Luxury Communism Newsletter, 2018.

How to Fix Avengers: Infinity War — Medium, 2018.

When Disaster Is Always Looming (with Milan Shrestha) — Slate, 2018.

My Dumb Tweet About Owl Orgasms and Socialism Went Viral — Slate, 2017.

The Future Is Also Messier Than You Think — Drawn Futures: Arizona 2045, 2017.

Can Sports Survive Our Environmental Crisis? — Slate, 2016.

On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk — Medium, 2015. Translated into Italian and included in Solarpunk: Come ho imparato ad amare il futuro, edited by Francesco Verso, 2020.