This was a major year for climate action, and we’re ready to keep up the momentum. Fix, Grist’s Solutions Lab, asked 22 climate leaders for their predictions for climate action in 2022.

Here are some notable excerpts ⬇️ In the food sector, Nona Yehia, architect, cofounder, and CEO at Vertical Harvest, predicts vertical farming will transform cities.

For the Anishinaabe people, the annual wild rice harvest across the Great Lakes is tradition, sustenance, and cultural lifeway.

But, the wild rice is at risk, threatened by climate change, mining, water pollution, and now the #Line3 pipeline. grist.org/food/line-3-pi… Frank Bibeau remembers canoeing on the waters of northern Minnesota with his father on a late summer day in 1996. Bibeau learned to harvest the grain from his father, who learned from his father before him, and so on — “since time immemorial,” he told @HerrCaitlin.

Racist real estate covenants were federally outlawed in 1968, but Dorothy Walker argues that while the laws that once divided Berkeley, CA, by race and class have evolved, their effects remain today. | Nathanael Johnson (@SavorTooth) writes. bit.ly/31iTQkH 2/ When Walker and her then-husband Joe Kamiya, who was Japanese, went house-hunting in Berkeley in 1950, they were simply told that they’d have to find a place in the western half of the city, a result of explicitly race-based neighborhood covenants. bit.ly/31iTQkH

President Biden sprung into climate action on his first day in office, but he will need to rely on his Cabinet choices to help deliver on his climate goals.

Here's a quick guide to the top 10 climate-relevant Cabinet nominees. THREAD ⬇️ bit.ly/3iRqH88 1/ If confirmed, @DebHaalandNM will become the first Indigenous Cabinet secretary. As secretary of the interior, Haaland would steward 500 million acres of public lands, manage oil and gas leases, and be tasked with upholding Indigenous treaty rights.

When former reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, many thought: “How bad will the next 4 years be?”

The 4 years that followed were as toxic for the country as they were for the climate. grist.org/climate/trumps… Under the Trump administration, the EPA rolled back hundreds of rules intended to cut emissions and clean up the country’s air and water, and the U.S. became the only country to leave the Paris Agreement.

Meanwhile, Trump bragged about destroying environmental protections.

1/ “They're killing people by doing this.”

In 2008, a sugarcane fire in Palm Beach County, FL, left six elementary school students hospitalized. Two weeks later the school board renewed a lease of its land to U.S. Sugar. grist.org/justice/the-gl… 2/ The school year coincides with the annual sugarcane harvest burn. Filling the air with smoke, soot, and ash, the burn releases a type of particulate matter linked to health risks.

All while kids sit in class, right next to the fields. grist.org/justice/the-gl…

Want a reason to feel good about the future? Well, we got 50 — introducing the 2019 #Grist50 Fixers: grist.org/grist-50/2019/ Every year, we scour the sustainability space to find up-and-coming people doing potentially game-changing work. This year, we issued a broad call for nominees, and received close to 1,200 nominations (!) from experts in all fields. #Grist50 grist.org/grist-50/2019/

1/ By now, you’ve probably seen the massive, 66-page climate history by @nathanielrich in @nytmag. But did we actually come perilously close to acting on climate - and was it human nature that stopped us? grist.org/article/what-t… 2/ “Almost nothing stood in our way - except ourselves.” That’s how Rich frames the problem. In some ways he’s right: climate change is a difficult problem, or a “wicked problem”, as social scientists say.