Ecofictology

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 36 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s time for another series of Spells and Specialists episodes with my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, and this time we are welcoming a particularly special guest, Rachel Rowenson who happens to be Clark’s wife and has been watching our storytelling shenanigans and wanted to get involved. She is a systems scientist and she’ll tell you exactly what that means in this wonderful episode where our brains explode from all the cool stuff and we collect information that we will distill down into a seed crystal next week in Part 2. Get ready to learn some stuff! 

 This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Systems science and saving the world with Rachel Rowenson | Spells and Specialists Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMWhJDInfY&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=8 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 35 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I welcome Midge Raymond onto the show as we talk about her beautiful novel My Last Continent. I reviewed this book on Monday so check that out! We talk about publishing ecofiction, taking inspiration for stories from the world around us and using ecofiction and storytelling as a form of communication to reach people. I had such fun chatting with Midge, she and John Yunker, who she founded Ashland Creek Press with, have been so welcoming to me and some of my favourite ecofiction titles have come out of that press so keep them on your radar. 

 This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Midge Raymond's website https://midgeraymond.com/  

Ashland Creek Press's website https://ashlandcreekpress.com/  

EcoLit Books' website https://ecolitbooks.com/ 

Interview with Midge Raymond | Author of My Last Continent | Cofounder of Ashland Creek Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-aRM9f-IP0&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=19 
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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 34 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode monday I am reviewing My Last Continent by Midge Raymond, the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press which I've mentioned before on this podcast. This book has everything, it has penguins, ecologists, the Antarctic, impending doom and a romance. What more could you want? I loved it and I am sharing this short episode with you today so that you’re prepared for Wednesday when I post an interview with Midge where we talk all about her book and what she hoped to achieve with it and ecofiction in general so check back in on Wednesday for that!

 This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Ecofiction Book Review | My Last Continent by Midge Raymond | SPOILER FREE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSD1HxeYnQ&list=PLErvk5p2-eWqIJaGfibZuk8YZvCggE68O&index=36 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 33 of the Ecofictology podcast! Today I am delighted to introduce you to a very good friend of mine, Sally Snow, one of the executive directors of the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, affectionately shortened to Lamave. She is a zoologist and filmmaker with a passion for conservation filmmaking and telling stories from local perspectives that often go unheard. I worked with Sally for a year in the Philippines as I ran one of the whaleshark research sites with my partner and it was a glorious experience, I told it very close to my heart so it was great to touch base with Sally again. I had such a wonderful time talking with Sally and she had such wonderful insights into storytelling which she has also made some forays into. 

 This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines (Lamave) https://www.Lamave.org/  Jackson Wild https://www.jacksonwild.org/  

The Ivory Game https://theivorygame.com/  

Sea of Shadows documentary on the vaquita https://films.nationalgeographic.com/sea-of-shadows  

Conservation Media Group https://www.conservationmediagroup.org/ 

Ecofiction, storytelling and conservation: interview with Sally Snow from Lamave 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V991PHV_a0&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=7 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 32 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am very pleased to introduce you to Francesca Trotman from Love the Oceans, a marine conservation organisation operating out of Mozambique. If you’ve been around my youtube channel at all you’ve probably heard the name several times because this was the organisation that I donated a portion of my patreon earnings to when I still had a patreon. By the time i stopped patreon, we had donated over £300 to Love the Oceans which I am very proud of. Chess is a friend of mine, we spent some time together in Mozambique and I have watched her in awe as she just went out and did the thing that so many people probably say they want to do, go and start an organisation to do some good and she just went and did it. So impressive! I enjoyed talking to her about storytelling in conservation and where she thinks ecofiction can bridge some gaps. 

 This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Love the Oceans: https://lovetheoceans.org/ 

Photographers without Borders https://www.photographerswithoutborders.org/ 

Ecofiction, storytelling and conservation: Interview with Francesca Trotman from Love the Oceans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqNY_PbgUJE&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=1 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 31 of the Ecofictology podcast! For the next couple of episodes, I wanted to dedicate time to exploring the power of storytelling in conservation and the representation of conservation in ecofiction. This is something that is very close to my heart and something I would love to see get more attention in the genre! I approach my research from a conservation perspective or at least a sustainable management perspective where possible and I started to notice that some of my favourite ecofiction titles were focused around conservation issues so maybe there was a bit of catharsis around seeing my fears reflected on the page. So anyway, this monday’s minisode is a bit of an exploration of that. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Conservation in Ecofiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQUCHjKYbE&list=PLErvk5p2-eWqiqXXl-iORnFfE5k8Xk_A8&index=2&pp=gAQBiAQB 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 30 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am so excited to talk to Mary Woodbury from dragonfly.eco which is an absolutely wonderful resource for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about ecofiction, get some recommendations, keep on top of news etc, Mary has published "Birdsong: a Novella" under the pen name Clara Hume and has several other titles under her belt as well. I learned so much from my chat with her, all about the ways people categorise ecofiction and how the stories themselves should be our focus rather than the term itself. You’ll remember some of these topics from an early episode I did on the definitions of ecofiction and dangers of categorisation, so if you want more context you can go back to episode 1 i believe, actually. 

This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. It was recorded via zoom so the audio is not amazing, but you’re probably used to that by now. I hope you enjoy

Dragonfly.eco Birdsong: a Novella by Clara Hume https://dragonflypub.ca/bird-song-a-novella/ 

Back to the Garden https://www.moonwillowpress.com/back-to-the-garden/

 Round the World in 80 Books on Medium https://medium.com/@EcoFiction/around-the-world-in-80-books-a-guide-to-ecological-and-climate-themes-in-fiction-a24e1e9b9e64 

Interview with Mary Woodbury: author of "Birdsong: a Novella" and founder of dragonfly.eco 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BGeX36n7U&list=PLErvk5p2-eWoC2qkqDRKjUm-eLzChdx0o&index=13 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 29 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Navarre Bartz where we brainstorm a story to communicate all about energy materials, solar panels and how electrodes work using the magic system we created in Part 3. If you missed that, i highly recommend going back and listening to it, its a treat! I love Part 4, i mean i love all the parts but part 4 might be my favourite because we turn it all into a story and it is always a story that is so much better than if i were to try and come up with a story on my own to communicate these things, i really value the collaborative storytelling framework that we’ve got going on here. It brings me so much joy. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. There is a visual component to this part 4 as I am refining the process, it’s a table that lists out our ideas so they don’t get jumbled, but i think listening to it gives you all the information you need too. I hope you enjoy

Find and Follow Navarre Here: - His Website: ⁠https://solarpunkstation.com/⁠ - On Youtube: ⁠   / @solarpunkstation  ⁠ - Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/BartzNavarre⁠ - Tumblr: ⁠https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunk-gnome/⁠ - The Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures: ⁠https://wvupressonline.com/node/905⁠

Nuclear plant meltdown and buddy cop comedy duo | Spells and Specialists Ep3.4 with Navarre Bartz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpzrrrdqFrs&list=PLErvk5p2-eWrif1Vn3uDole07p_C4EILb&index=7 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 28 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we take our awesome seed crystal from the last Spells & Specialist video with Navarre Bartz and put it through Clark’s Magic system Blueprint! This blueprint is so much fun to play with, we always end up with something unique and intricate, and this time we ended up with a system that can explain both the old magic of earth as well as some crazy advanced technology for a solarpunk setting. You can find the video version of this episode on Clark’s channel, the magic engineer, link is in the show notes and this time there is a visual component because he’s sharing his screen and fiddling with dials and sliders on his blueprint which is pretty fun so check that out if you want to picture what it looks like, but i think you still get heaps of helpful info just by listening, so I hope you enjoy. 

Find and Follow Navarre Here: - His Website: ⁠https://solarpunkstation.com/⁠ - On Youtube: ⁠   / @solarpunkstation  ⁠ - Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/BartzNavarre⁠ - Tumblr: ⁠https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunk-gnome/⁠ - The Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures: ⁠https://wvupressonline.com/node/905⁠

A Scientific Magic System for Old Magic and Adv.Tech || Spells & Specialists w/ Navarre Bartz Pt 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-PFXoE-TL0&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=11 

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Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 27 of the Ecofictology podcast! The conversation with Navarre Bartz continues in this video of Spells & Specialists. It's time to take what we learned in part one and find our magic-system seed crystal. We had to approach things a little different this time around, but we sure ended up with a good one! This episode is led by my cohost Clark Rowenson the magic engineer, his concept of the seed crystal is so useful and i always enjoy whittling our ideas down to a single point from which our inspiration can grow. This is an archived episode from Clark’s youtube channel so if you prefer the visual medium, you can find the link in the shownotes. I hope you enjoy

Find and Follow Navarre Here: - His Website: ⁠https://solarpunkstation.com/⁠ - On Youtube: ⁠   / @solarpunkstation  ⁠ - Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/BartzNavarre⁠ - Tumblr: ⁠https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunk-gnome/⁠ - The Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures: ⁠https://wvupressonline.com/node/905⁠

A Seed Crystal of Fictional Quanta and Science || Spells & Specialists w/ Navarre Bartz Pt 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjeJTCLXcsg&list=PLbLBMlI_GY5K9bywwltAwXjtDZR8h37fI&index=10 

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