Rising on Substack this week: Climate & Environment

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Bill McKibben

177k followers · #1 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+13 in 30 days 85 in all

35 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sarah Wilson

83k followers · #7 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+12 in 30 days 65 in all

25 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Climate Action Now

102k followers · #18 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+10 in 30 days 56 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Michael Mezz

14k followers · #26 Climate & Environment Rising

+9 in 30 days 52 in all

21 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Nate Hagens

27k followers · #27 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 53 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

David Roberts

141k followers · #2 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 68 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Erin Brockovich

116k followers · #26 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 50 in all

22 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Alaina Wood

50k followers · #41 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 50 in all

19 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Kate Bradbury

11k followers · #94 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 52 in all

8 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Jan Rosenow

11k followers · #87 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 41 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Sammy Roth

8.5k followers · #10 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 55 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Katharine Hayhoe

69k followers · #19 Climate & Environment Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 61 in all

18 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live.