A cure for writer’s block

Storytelling as a thoroughly whole-hearted pursuit.

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A few years ago, producing Degrees, a podcast about climate-saving careers for the Environmental Defense Fund, I met photographer Pete Muller. He’d produced a remarkable National Geographic photo essay chronicling something I’d never heard of: solastalgia, the feeling of being homesick for a place that you haven’t actually left. Rather, through climate change and human intervention, it has left you. The landscape has been altered so dramatically that it no longer feels like home.

As Pete described to Degrees host Yesh Pavlik Slenk, “It no longer provides sola…