Stories for Earth: Climate Change in Pop Culture

G.G. Kellner joins the podcast to discuss her debut novel, Hope, A History of the Future. She and Forrest discuss hope, resilience, and how to build a better world. Hope, A History of the Future Buy on Bookshop from $15.59 Buy on Amazon from $16.95 Buy on Barnes & Noble from $16.95 Buy on Apple Books from $9.99 Transcript: https://storiesforearth.com/2022/04/20/g-g-kellner-in

Joel Burcat is an author and environmental lawyer. He has written three award-winning environmental legal thrillers, the latest of which is Strange Fire. Buy Strange Fire: Buy from the publisher from $19.95 Buy from Midtown Scholar from $19.95 (SIGNED) Buy from Amazon from $19.95

In part one of our discussion of New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson, we'll cover a plot summary and list of major characters. Stay tuned for part two, where we'll dive into analyzing this classic work of solarpunk. Transcript: https://storiesforearth.com/2022/01/03/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson/

Alison Stine is an award-winning writer and the author of Trashlands. → Buy Trashlands on Bookshop*: https://bookshop.org/a/140/9780778311270 → Alison Stine's website: https://www.alisonstine.com/ Stories for Earth: Transcript: Support us through Patreon or a one-time donation: https://storiesforearth.com/support-us/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/cha

Sugar Birds tells the story of a young girl named Aggie who’s on the run from her troubles after lighting a terrible fire at her family’s home in the Pacific Northwest. I had the pleasure of talking to Cheryl Grey Bostrom about her novel, which has now won at least three awards, including: 2021 American Fiction Awards in Literary Fiction, General Fiction, and Cross-Genre Ficti

Seeing The Day After Tomorrow as a youth was probably the first time I was exposed to the idea of climate change. And 17 years later, this film remains one of the only major Hollywood productions to explicitly engage with the topic. For this special episode of Stories for Earth, I chatted with Dr. Yanas Kisten, a scientist and host of the podcast Geekoscopy, about one of our favori

A new conceptual art project called the Atlanta River Time Project aims to challenge the delusion that humans are separate from nature by offering an alternative method of timekeeping: the meander and flow of a river. Created by experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats, the Atlanta River Time Project keeps time by comparing the current rate of flow of the Chattahoochee Ri

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue tells the story of a fictional African village called Kosawa as it fights for environmental justice with the American oil company Pexton. While this is a work of fiction, it contains many parallels to modern climate stories, and I believe it has valuable lessons for us as we face the climate emergency. → Buy How Beautiful We Were on Bookshop f

Season 3 of Stories for Earth is coming to a podcasting platform near you soon. In our first episode, we'll discuss How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue. Website: https://storiesforearth.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stories4earth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storiesforearth/ Support us: https://www.patreon.com/storiesforearth

Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Nicholson are the co-creators of the climate video game Survive the Century, a choose-your-own-adventure style game where you make decisions about how to cover the climate crisis as the editor in chief of the most influential newspaper in the world. The game's third co-creator, Christopher Trisos, unfortunately wasn't able to join us. I found this game t