Read: Reflections on Climate, Collapse, and Collective Healing

Read Essays: This is where I slow down. Where thoughts stretch into full sentences and emotions take their time. In a world driven by headlines and hot takes, this space is different. Here, I write about climate collapse, climate anxiety, personal grief, and the quieter truths behind global systems — because sometimes, the most urgent change begins within.

These essays are part reflection, part invitation. They’re grounded in lived experience and emotional honesty, often sitting at the messy intersection of mental health, social justice, and planetary crisis. Whether I’m writing about burnout, uncertainty, or the politics of peace, my goal is always the same: to make the climate crisis human — and to remind us we’re not alone in feeling it.

If you're looking for climate storytelling, emotional resilience, or just a place to think deeper about what comes next — you're in the right place.

Wide cinematic website hero image for Activism and Algorithms. Gregg the Artivist looks at a phone in front of a dark grungy background filled with algorithmic overlays, social media metrics, declining reach numbers, restricted content warnings, network patterns, protest imagery and phrases about attention, outrage, addiction and dependency. A faded Gregg the Artivist logo appears behind him, suggesting the tension between activist visibility, platform power, digital dependency and meaningful impact.

Activism and Algorithms

After taking part in a Spanish and Dutch research group on activists and algorithms, I found myself sitting with a deeper question. Are activists...

Featured image for the READ article Care, in All Its Messiness. Two small rescued baby pigeons sit closely together on a folded dark towel while a hand gently cradles them from above. Part of a laptop sits to the right with the Gregg the Artivist logo visible on the screen. The lighting is warm and low, creating an intimate, calm, editorial feel that reflects the article’s themes of tenderness, interruption, and care.

Care in All Its Messiness

After several heavy, world focused pieces, this week’s READ turns to something quieter and much smaller. But not smaller in meaning. When two baby...

Live Like Pirates Because Clarity Is Not Coming First: Stormy pirate ship scene with Gregg in costume holding a rope on deck while a large black flag behind him displays the Gregg the Artivist red logo circle, with lightning and rough waves in the background, matching the article live like pirates and the message of clarity after motion.

Live Like Pirates

This past week brought murder on the high seas, another round of the productivity debate, and a new belief I cannot unsee: if we want to survive what...

Seven Peace College students in navy and gold uniforms stand on a rocky ridge with their backs to the viewer, facing a glowing planet horizon. Above them, a monumental translucent crest shape fills the sky with a gold dove insignia inside a circle and orbit like arcs. Aurora light and storm clouds glow in teal and ember tones. This is a cinematic sci fi illustration, not a real photograph.

Europe’s Peace College

A quote from Star Trek sent me down a rabbit hole about Europe. We have War Colleges everywhere, but where is our Peace College? Defence is...

Six phase map: Nighttime editorial collage. Through a glass wall, shadowy monster like executives in suits meet around a table with a glowing globe. Outside, a man in glasses holds a potted plant and watering can, watching with tired amusement. Wet street reflections, warm window lights, and a bicycle silhouette suggest a Dutch city.

Six Phase Map

Monsters run the world. Now what? A funny, honest six phase map from burnout to community, and why my projects keep evolving into connection.

A man seen from behind sits on a velvet gold sofa at night holding a remote, watching a projector image on a wall. A pizza box with slices sits to the left, with scattered chocolate wrappers and a striped popcorn bucket in the foreground. The projected image is softly blurred and includes a small red circular Gregg the Artivist logo in the lower left, capturing the mood of the comfort trap.

The Comfort Trap

After a big day, I sometimes call it a treat and disappear into delivery food and a binge. But the comfort trap is sneaky. It looks cosy, yet leaves...

Slip Slop Slap still image from the Australian sun safety campaign showing two cartoon seagulls, one taller seagull leaning in with an arm around a hanging sign that reads Slip Slop Slap, and a smaller seagull standing to the right, with a sandy ground and blue sky behind them

SLIP SLOP SLAP

SLIP SLOP SLAP The jingle I still remember, and the problem we actually solved. Slip Slop Slap: I want to share a good news story. And...

Fear as a Product — How Headlines Manufacture Emotion

Fear as a Product

Recently my father sent me a news article that first made me angry because of its ridiculous fear based language. But when I slowed down and looked...

A dark political scene with a silhouette of a leader pointing while red and blue maps glow behind him, symbolising fear based narratives shaping global power.

Fear as Power

How Leaders Use Fear as Power To Shape Our World Fear as Power: this is Part Two of my journey into fear narratives. Part One was deeply personal. It...

Anonymous male hiker standing on mountain slope with outstretched arms at sunrise

Embracing Uncertainty

The Beauty of Not Knowing What Comes Next I don’t have a five-year plan. I’m not even sure what next month looks like. Embracing Uncertainty: For a...

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