"Creative destruction!" now a literal description of the tech industry.
29 min: https://youtu.be/yUoj9B8OpR8
"Creative destruction!" now a literal description of the tech industry.
29 min: https://youtu.be/yUoj9B8OpR8
@seanbala I’m on writing retreat this week so things are *exceptionally* well :) I hope you enjoy the pod!
@seanbala This comment made me happy. Thank you for posting it. :)
Help. Build bonds. Accept help. Repeat. Unlock resilience.
I've been thinking that climate fiction that imagines a future where we actually fight the crisis, a future worth fighting for, is super subversive (and it is) but I'm coming around to thinking that encouraging folks (even ones who aren't "writers") to engage in that imaginative act--imagine the future you want and what it would take to get there--is 100% part of how we fight this.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateFiction #ClimateSolutions
@adamgreenfield I'll be 58 soon & I'm full-time engaged in activities that I'll likely never see the fruition of (battling climate change)—planting seeds for trees under which I'll never sit. At the same time, I'm very conscious of spending time every day doing things I love. Of not waiting for ANYTHING. If it's possible to do, I do it now.
It's not just my keen awareness of my age, but losing 4 parents in 2 years (plus *gestures to everything*)...there are no guarantees. Do the things now.
The more Dead Internet Theory becomes reality, the more determined I am to talk to my friends.
The more genAI pollutes the internet, the more determined I am to go to art festivals & buy real art from humans.
The more companies jack up prices for food made from primarily from petrochemicals, the more determined I am to eat veg from a local farm & make my own tortillas with flour from a local (solar-powered!) mill.
It's not possible to entirely opt out of the madness, but I'm sure gonna try.
Me: Shit is getting real all over the world with this climate thing, record heat, record floods, record hail. People don't understand. It's going to hit everywhere and it's going to hit them. And it's only May.
Also Me: watches hail fall as second power outage of the day hits.
The World*: criminalizes climate activists more every day
*the world's powers
I keep saying we need more hopeful climate stories and that will only happen is IF WE WRITE THEM.
I highly encourage you to write your own story for Grist's Imagine 2200 contest.
Not only do you have a chance to win money, you'll have gone through the exercise of envisioning a better world.
Be brave! We won’t change the world if we all stay inside our comfort zones.
https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/
#hopepunk #solarpunk #climatefiction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange @grist
SUPER COOL: My story will be in a #climate exhibit in NYC!
THE CLIMATE IMAGINARIUM: a community center for climate & culture (galleries, exhibits, performances, events) that respond to the climate crisis with visions for hope & justice.
There'll be a wall of stories w/QR codes to download & read!
WHERE: Governor's Island, NYC
WHEN: 11a — 5p Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, May-Nov
Launch May 18th:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-imaginarium-launch-party-on-governors-island-tickets-896416133787
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #ClimateFiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
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All of us. It will take all of us.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions
This is terrifying.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/29/copernicus-online-portal-offers-terrifying-view-climate-emergency
I mean... what the actual...
NEW PODCAST! Bright Green Futures is a podcast & substack where we lift up stories that imagine a more just & sustainable world & talk about the struggle to get there.
The purpose is to collect up hopeful cli-fi stories and writers in one place, so we can build community and work together to surface these stories & grow the genre.
Subscribing to the Bright Green Futures substack gets you the pod & the newsletter & a list of recommended #hopepunk and #solarpunk stories
If you've been thinking of trying your hand at some hopeful #ClimateFiction, the Imagine 2200 contest is once again open to submissions! Having my story, Seven Sisters, place in this contest was a thrill but it just got better after that, connecting with the great people at Grist and the other storytellers.
And I get a little giddy every time I see the cover art for Seven Sisters in their promo material!
Highly recommend you submit!
#solarpunk @hopepunk
What seeds are you planting?
(there's so much debate about attribution for this, I'm leaving it unattributed)
A small press closing in part due to the burden of dealing with AI sludge. I hate this.
"A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence"
AI is going to kill us, just not the way the AI hype-mongers tell us.
(Hint: the *real* problems are never what the tech enthusiasts point to)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/07/ai-data-centers-power/
Speculative Fiction author, PhD Environmental EngineeringI write hopepunk climate fiction & solarpunk.Ally🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| VP2022 | SFWABeing cozy/gentle/healing is radical & disruptive. Host: Bright Green Futures podcast, stories to build a better world (BrightGreenFutures.wtf)#books #writing #hopepunk #ClimateFiction #solarpunk #ScienceFiction #CliFi #ClimateCrisis"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes."--Alex FalconeNEW anti-AI stories: Closet Full of Time
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