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Bright Green Futures Podcast

Susan Kaye Quinn

We lift up stories about a more sustainable and just world and talk about the struggle to get there. To build better futures, we need to imagine them first. brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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Ep 16: The Shapes of Stories with Author Tashan Mehta

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/08/02

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

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Ep. 15: Climate Fiction Zines and Small Presses

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/07/26

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

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Ep 14: Imagining Another Life with Author and Editor...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/07/12

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

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Ep. 13: Envisioning the Future: Exercising Our...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/06/28

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 Imagination video by Zoe Bee(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up

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79:38

Ep 12: Building Movement Through Hopeful Climate...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/06/14

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:

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Ep. 11: All About Solarpunk: Literature and Movement

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/06/07

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

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48:46

Ep. 10: Adaptation in Climate Fiction with Writer Ana...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/05/31

Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with writer Ana Sun about her stories that examine adaptation in the climate crisis.LINKS Ep. 10: Adaptation in Climate Fiction with Writer Ana Sun* Soul Noodles by Ana Sun (The Bright Mirror: Global Solarpunk by Women anthology)* Night Fowls by Ana Sun (Solarpunk Creatures anthology)* Dandelion Brew by Ana Sun (DreamForge)* Write the Future You Want To Live In by Ana Sun (non-fiction article on solarpunk in DreamForge)* Ana’s blog post about Night Fowls (also

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Ep 9: How to Build a Good Anthropocene

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/05/24

Hello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about how non-fiction and fiction work together to help us envision a better world. LINKS Ep. 9: How to Build a Good Anthropocene* Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh* Seeds of a Good Anthropocene website* Taryn O’Neill, producer of Scirens* Youtube trailer: “The Assignment”* The Climate Action AlmanacBright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just

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51:45

Ep. 8: Loneliness, Connection, and Resilience, In...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/05/17

Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with writer and activist Jamie Liu about her award-winning climate-fiction story about loneliness, connection, and resilience.LINKS Ep. 8: Loneliness, Connection, and Resilience, In Conversation with Writer and Activist Jamie Liu* To Labor for the Hive by Jamie Liu (2024 winner, Grist Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors)* GRIST Looking Forward Book Club* Jamie Liu’s interview with the Climate Fiction Writer’s League (2024)* Everything for

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Ep 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate Movement

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2024/05/10

Hello Friends! Today we’re going to dig into climate fiction’s place in the larger climate struggle and how understanding activism and movement building can help us to portray in fiction how change really works.LINKS Ep. 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate MovementSustainability Salon page, hosted by Maren CookeSustainability Salon: Hope is a Plant You Can Care For or Kill (Aug 2023) (Susan Kaye Quinn, PDF, recording)Sustainability Salon: Movement Building (Oct-Nov 2023) (Penn Garvin,

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45:38

Ep. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/05/03

Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with Renan Bernardo about how grief weaves through many of his stories, but that, for him, writing solarpunk means bringing readers from those dark depths to a brighter place.LINKS Ep. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Ficiton with Author Renan Bernardo* Virtual Author Panel on Hopepunk (Susan Kaye Quinn, T.K. Rex, Renan Bernardo, Brianna Castognozzi, Watertown Library, Jan 2023)* A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo (Samovar Magazine, February

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Ep 5: Structure in Climate Storytelling

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/04/19

Hello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the connection between the structure of stories and how we think about the climate.LINKS Ep. 5: Structure in Climate Storytelling* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh* Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson* Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger* Nothing is Promised series by Susan Kaye Quinn* Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn* Eddie Spaghetti ArtBright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable

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Ep. 4: Scientist to Author, In Conversation with...

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/04/12

Hello Friends! In this episode, I chat with Danielle Arostegui about her policy work for the Environmental Defense Fund, working at a Congressional thinktank to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act, and then deciding that writing climate fiction was where she wanted to take the fight next.LINKS Ep. 4: From Scientist to Author, In Conversation with Danielle ArosteguiSolarpunk Drabble by Danielle ArosteguiGrist’s Climate Fiction Drabbles (100 word stories)(transcript available on

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19:55

Ep. 3: From Climate Fiction to Climate Action

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/04/05

Hello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the connection between climate fiction and climate action in the real world.LINKS Ep. 3: Climate Fiction to Climate ActionThe two stories I discuss in this pod are part of a collection called Halfway to Better, which is available for preorder and releases on Earth Day, April 22nd. The individual stories are free to read—I hope you’ll download them and give them a try.* Halfway to Better (releases April 22nd) by Susan Kaye Quinn* Slimy Things Did Crawl

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Ep. 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and Author T. K. Rex)

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/03/28

Hello Friends! In this episode, I chat with author T.K. Rex about her solarpunk stories, including one where we’re talking to dolphins! We discuss how communicating with the non-human can open up our perspective about the changing climate and how the interface between ourselves and nature (and technology) needs to change. LINKS Ep. 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and author T.K. Rex)* A Lot Full of Weeds by T.K. Rex* Squawker and Dolphin Swimming Together by T.K. Rex(transcript available on

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Ep. 1: Stories to Build a Better World

Bright Green Futures Podcast ·

2024/03/19

Hello Friends! Bright Green Futures lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. In the first episode, I talk about why we even need a podcast/newsletter like this. Why new stories are key to building a better world.LINKS Ep. 1: Stories to Build a Better World* Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn (also in German)* Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone by T.K. Rex* Metamorphosis collection (preorder from Milkweed

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