Bright Green Futures Podcast

Hello friends! In this episode, I chat with author Henry Lien about his new book, Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird, which is all about 4 Act Eastern storytelling, the Japanese term for which is Kishōtenketsu. We discuss the book, East vs. West storytelling, and especially how Eastern storytelling can be a vital tool for solarpunk stories.LINKS Ep. 36: Solarpunk and 4 Act Eastern Storytelling with Author Henry Lien* Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird by Henry Lien (plus the song)* Henry’s website (especially see his page on Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird, which has a list of essays and podcasts on the book, and his page on classes/events).* To be notified of future classes Henry’s teaching, sign up for his newsletter.* Link to sign up to be notified when Sue has online solarpunk writing classes available(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Hopeful Climate Fiction list for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

In this episode, I chat with author Ana Sun about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Heritage as a theme, and her very fascinating giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 34: Climate Heritage with Ana Sun* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Ana’s story (FREE until 5.29.2025): CorianderRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri* Ep. 30: Earth Day, Joy as a Tactical Weapon, and Release Day for the Bright Green Futures Anthology* Ep. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. Rex* Ep. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle Arostegui* Ep. 33: Climate Resilience with BrightFlame(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

In this episode, I chat with author Danielle Arostegui about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Connections as a theme, and her very cool giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle Arostegui* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Strong Towns* Asheville For All* Danielle’s story (FREE until 5.13.2025): A Merger in Corn CountryRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri* Ep. 30: Earth Day, Joy as a Tactical Weapon, and Release Day for the Bright Green Futures Anthology* Ep. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. Rex(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

Hello Friends! It's Earth Day and we're launching the Bright Green Futures anthology. In this episode, I talk about why stories like these matter, why joy is a tactical weapon, and how there’s really only one fight we’re engaged in now.LINKS Ep. 30: Earth Day, Joy as a Tactical Weapon, and Release Day for the Bright Green Futures Anthology* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Download Zines: Bright Green Futures and How to Solarpunk* Little Free Library Map* Politics and the English Language by George Orwell* All We Can Save edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson* Solarpunk Future! Discord: Solarpunk Bookclub* Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting (adapted from Frontline Medics)RELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

In this episode, I chat with author Renan Bernardo about his new story in the upcoming Bright Green Futures anthology, why he picked Climate Anxiety as a theme, and his giveaway item coordinated with his story.LINKS Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Ep 27: Zines, Cultural Change, and Storytelling in the Underground* Renan’s story (FREE until 4.22.2025): The Doglady and the Rainstorm(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

Hello Friends! In this episode, we're talking about the Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology, set to release on Earth Day!LINKS Ep. 26: Bright Green Futures:2024 Anthology* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* BioDiversity LibraryBright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

Hello Friends! In this episode, I talk about the doom loop created with geopolitical instability and the climate crisis, and the role of hopeful climate fiction as a tool in our survival toolkit.LINKS Ep. 24: Let’s Talk About the Doom Loop* A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning. The Conversation, Dec 9 2024* New Section on Academic Studies of Solarpunk on Bright Green Futures website* The Impact of Climate Fiction: An Empiricle Study of Readers. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.* Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Madalina Vlasceanu, et. al. Science Advances, 7 Feb 2024, Vol 10, Issue 6.RECENT NEWSLETTERS* Fresh Hope for 2025: new Grist stories, website refresh, Future Mending podcast, Seven Sisters in Spanish* Fight Fascism: Don’t Be a Snitch (and other less obvious ways to fight evil)* Be a Light in the Dark(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate MovementMAKE SURE TO ENTER NOVEMBER’S GIVEAWAYThis Solarpunk Starter Pack gives you a great sense of what hopeful climate fiction can look like in short-story format. I’m giving away the set to one lucky winner, but you can snag copies for yourself using the links below.WIN A SOLARPUNK STARTER PACKYOU MUST BE A SUBSCRIBER OF BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES TO ENTER: OPEN TO US/CANADA only for shipping costs. GIVEAWAY ENDS NOVEMBER 30th.https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/november-giveaway-solarpunk-starterBright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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 and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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 fiction, and novelsMake sure to enter August’s giveaway!(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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 available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com

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 Kropotkin* Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg* New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson* Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow* The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks Dalton* Metamorphosis anthology published by Milkweed Editions* Future Fiction, which is run by Francesco Verso in Italy* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)* Multi-Species Cities co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al.* Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard* A Hunger with No Name by Lauren C. TeffeauBright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your friends: BrightGreenFutures.wtfhttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/featured-storieshttps://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/hopeful-climate-fiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brightgreenfutures.substack.com