By Susan Kaye Quinn
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Hello Friends! In this episode, we’re going to talk about the ideological war that’s rising up all around us, pitting the status quo against our collective desire for a better greener world.
LINKS Ep. 20: Technofeudalists vs. Solarpunk
* Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
In this episode, I chat with Author BrightFlame about her new witchy solarpunk novel and how the mundane and the supernatural are both entangled with the climate crisis.
LINKS Ep. 19: Witchy Solarpunk with Author BrightFlame
* The Working by BrightFlame
* The Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft (BrightFlame’s website)
* Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo
* The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
* Thank Geo by BrightFlame (Solarpunk Creatures)
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(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about the four kinds of hope and how to understand the surge in hope and joy that’s happening in this political moment we’re having in America.
LINKS Ep. 18: The Power of Hope
* Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)
* Sue’s website: explainer on hopepunk/solarpunk, short fiction, and novels
Make sure to enter August’s giveaway!
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about how to write diversely and why it's so important for climate stories.
LINKS Ep. 17: Diversity in Climate Storytelling
* Writing the Other website, book, classes, resources
Make sure to enter August’s giveaway!
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(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with Author Tashan Mehta about the shapes of stories and how form has to meet function as we tackle storytelling around the climate.
LINKS Ep. 16: The Shapes of Stories with Author Tashan Mehta
* Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta
* Solarpunk Creatures (with Tashan Mehta’s story, Leaf Whispers, Ocean Song)
* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
* How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn
* Green Dreamer: Alchemize
* Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello Friends! In this episode, we’re going to talk about the people who publish hopeful climate fiction, both to highlight where you can find new stories and where you can submit your own.
LINKS Ep. 15: Climate Fiction Zines and Small Presses
* Solarpunk Creatures (World Weaver Press)
* Little Blue Marble
* Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo (Android Press)
* Metamorphosis collection (published by Milkweed Editions)
* Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)
* Grist (Climate.Justice.Solutions), a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
* Grist’s Imagine 2200 Collections (2021, 2022, 2023 Editor’s Picks, Best of Audio, 2024)—Submit to Imagine 2200
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with Author and Editor Sarena Ulibarri about her novella, Another Life, how she was radicalized by The Conquest of Bread, and how social ecology, anarchism, and communalism inspired her worldbuilding.
LINKS Ep. 14: Imagining Another Life with Author and Editor Sarena Ulibarri
* Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri
* Solarpunk Winters edited by Sarena Ulibarri
* Solarpunk Creatures (co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al)
* The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
* Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
* New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
* Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
* The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks Dalton
* Metamorphosis anthology published by Milkweed Editions
* Future Fiction, which is run by Francesco Verso in Italy
* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)
* Multi-Species Cities co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al.
* Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
* A Hunger with No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about how to exercise our imaginations to envision better futures, whether we’re writers or not, and how that’s a vital tool in our climate solutions toolkit.
LINKS Ep. 13: Envisioning the Future: Exercising Our Imagination
Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn
Climate Imaginarium, Governor’s Island NYC
Fascism and the Failure of Imagination video by Zoe Bee
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with Grist Editor Tory Stephens about Imagine 2200, Grist’s hopeful climate fiction contest, and how envisioning the future is an important climate solution.
LINKS Ep. 12: Building Movement Through Hopeful Climate Fiction with Editor Tory Stephens
* Grist (Climate.Justice.Solutions), a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
* Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction and Contest
* The Grist 50: annual list of climate and justice leaders to watch
* Octavia’s Brood by adrienne maree brown
* Daybreak, cooperative tabletop game about the climate
* Dear Tomorrow, sharing personal climate messages
* Climate Imaginarium, center for climate and culture
* Arizona State University, Center for Science and the Imagination
* ASU’s Climate Action Almanac—Bright Green Futures highlighted their trailer in Episode 9
* Submit to Imagine 2200
* The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
* The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
* An AI plots to take over a community’s solar power by Paolo Bacigalupi (Grist)
* Under the Grid: Detroit goes full-on solar in this fictional future by Andrew Dana Hudson (Grist)
(transcript available on substack)
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
Hello Friends! This episode, we’re going to dive into solarpunk. I often use solarpunk and hopeful climate fiction interchangeably, but solarpunk is also an in-real-life movement and lifestyle. Today we’ll talk about both and how imagining a different world is key to all of it.
LINKS Ep. 11: All About Solarpunk: Literature and Movement
* Dear Alice, Chobani solarpunk yogurt commercial
* Tech Won’t Save Us podcast
* Write the Future You Want to Live In by Ana Sun (DreamForge)
* Pittsburgh’s Solarpunk Future 2024 expo
* Solarpunk Conference: Rays of Resilience, an online solarpunk conference on June 29th 2024
* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
* Bright Green Future’s list of solarpunk/hopeful climate fiction
Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-stories
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction
The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.
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