Thread by @EricHolthaus

Some personal news:
This week marks the one-year anniversary of The Phoenix — a newsletter for climate revolutionaries.

Today, we're launching The Phoenix 2.0 — kicking off 52 weeks of collaborative journalism focused on building the world we need. 🔥✨
thephoenix.earth/welcome-to-the…

Starting today, The Phoenix will be moving to a new url thephoenix.earth and begin publishing our revolutionary climate journalism on @Ghost, to help support a growing community of open-source creators.

I was under contract with Substack until yesterday. Today I left.

Substack has refused restrict harmful speech — on gender, Covid & climate — on their platform.

I refuse to believe that any of us should have to accept a world where the status quo is trying to actively kill us.

When I launched The Phoenix last year, it was with this mandate: "We've got to shift climate storytelling away from inevitable apocalypse towards the possibility of a better world; towards catastrophic success not catastrophic failure."

I also launched The Phoenix with this promise: "We were born at exactly the right time to change everything."

I'm very excited about Ghost, but I'm even more excited about this chance to reboot The Phoenix.

Starting next week, The Phoenix will kick off 52 weeks of coverage on building the world we need — one filled with justice, safety & joy. Each week will have its own theme like "trees" or "Texas" or "community solar". Best of all, this journalism will be produced collaboratively.

Right now, I've got a backlog of commissioned authors that have been paid and put in their work but haven't yet been published on The Phoenix, so we'll start off with those themes first. A preview of some of the themes: waste, drought, swimming, community.

To support this work, we're also launching new membership tiers for The Phoenix.

These member tiers are set at a level that will make sure our journalism remains entirely independent, and covers the costs of competitive salaries.

Join us:
thephoenix.earth/#/portal/

Most of all, we're doing this work to create change. If you have any ideas for what you'd like to see at The Phoenix in year two, I'm all ears and I'd love to chat.

Email me: [e-mail]

The Phoenix operates as an organization with our primary goal of creating revolutionary change at the moment when our civilization and our planet needs it most.

Let's do this together. <3