Bright Green Futures Podcast

Hello Friends! In this episode, I talk about how community and connection are climate tools and tools to fight fascism.LINKS Ep. 22: Building Resilience for the Future (and Today)* On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder* Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)* Ep. 21: Doing Your Part (in the Climate Fight)* Ep. 7: Clim

Hello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the “easy to say, hard to do” concept of doing your part in the climate fight. LINKS Ep. 21: Doing Your Part (in the Climate Crisis)* Solarpunk Author Panel launching Metamorphosis, NYC Oct 7th Recording* Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future (releases Oct 22, 2024)* Nothing is Promised by Susan Kaye Quinn* Climate I

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

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 b

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

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, resourcesMake sure to enter August’s giveaway!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeal7OH0tiKlUn8HMJtBStjoDgmtcv0cnzHDRMBz6_UxUHNw/viewform(transcript availab

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

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

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 edite

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 ImaginationSeven Sisters by Susan Kaye QuinnClimate Imaginarium, Governor’s Island NYCFascism and the Failure of Ima