Climate Non-Fiction

Find these at Bright Green Future’s Bookshop.org Climate Non-Fiction page.

Bright Green Futures is dedicated to surfacing hopeful climate fiction, but many non-fiction resources directly inform how to create those stories: essays on how fiction narratives need to change, books on arts in activism and how to change our perspective on nature, as well as websites, conferences, and more that directly engage in climate-solutions visioning.

Visit Bright Green Future’s Bookshop.org Page to purchase paper copies on this list!

ESSAYS/ARTICLES

• What if Climate Change Meant Not Doom— But Abundance? (Rebecca Solnit, Washington Post, 2023)

• Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine, 2023)

• Write the Future You Want to Live In (Ana Sun, DreamForge Magazine, 2023)

• The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (also in book form)

• On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk by Andrew Dana Hudson

BOOKS ON ART/WRITING

• The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh

• Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

• The Art of Activism by Steve Duncombe and Stave Lambert

BOOKS ON POLITICS/CLIMATE CRISIS

• The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh

• Active Hope by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

• Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

• Doing Democracy by Bill Moyer

• The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

• The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

• Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer

• This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein

BOOKS ON NATURE

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)

• The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger

• Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

• How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn

WEBSITES

• Grist (Climate.Justice.Solutions), a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

• Seeds of a Good Anthropocene website

• Dear Tomorrow, sharing personal climate messages

CONFERENCES/CENTERS

• Pittsburgh’s Solarpunk Future 2024 expo (and Discord)

• Solarpunk Conference: Rays of Resilience, an online solarpunk conference on June 29^th 2024

• Climate Imaginarium, center for climate and culture in NYC

• Arizona State University, Center for Science and the Imagination (ASU’s Climate Action Almanac trailer in Episode 9)

ONLINE DISCUSSIONS/PANELS/VIDEOS

• Solarpunk explainer video by Our Changing Climate (2023)

• Virtual Hopepunk Author Panel (Watertown Library 2023)

• Fascism and the Failure of Imagination video by Zoe Bee

• Solarpunk Author Panel launching Metamorphosis, NYC 2024 Recording

• Sue’s Solarpunk zine (available for download and printing)