Featured Stories

The purpose of Bright Green Futures is to surface hopeful climate-fiction stories. The links below will take you to the stories themselves in various formats, the authors’ websites, and the episodes where the stories are discussed. Please see Hopeful Climate Fiction for additional recommendations across media (novels, film, TV, games).

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Imagine 2200 Story Collections

Many stories are free to read online (or available in ebook).

Ep. 20: Technofeudalists vs. Solarpunk

• Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

Ep. 19: Witchy Solarpunk with Author BrightFlame

• The Working by BrightFlame

• The Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft (BrightFlame’s website)

• Thank Geo by BrightFlame (Solarpunk Creatures)

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 novels

Ep. 17: Diversity in Climate Storytelling

• Writing the Other website, book, classes, resources

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)

• Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup

Ep. 15: Climate Fiction Zines and Small Presses

• Zines (open to hopeful climate fiction): Little Blue Marble, Grist: Imagine 2200, Solarpunk Magazine, DreamForge Magazine, Reckoning, Haven Spec, Translunar Travelers Lounge, Utopia SF, Baubles From Bones, Escape Pod

• Small presses (open to hopeful climate fiction): Stelliform Press, Android Press, Milkweed Editions, World Weaver Press

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

• Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri

• Solarpunk Creatures (co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al)

• Multi-Species Cities co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al.

Ep. 13: Envisioning the Future: Exercising Our Imagination

• Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Climate Imaginarium, Governor’s Island NYC

• Fascism and the Failure of Imagination video by Zoe Bee

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: annual list of climate and justice leaders to watch

Ep. 11: All About Solarpunk: Literature and Movement

• Dear Alice, Chobani solarpunk yogurt commercial

• Write the Future You Want to Live In by Ana Sun (DreamForge)

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

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)

• The Utopia of Us (contains Ana Sun’s story, published May 28, 2024) a tribute to We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ep. 9: How to Build a Good Anthropocene

• Seeds of a Good Anthropocene website

• Taryn O’Neill, producer of Scirens’s youtube trailer: “The Assignment” for the Climate Action Almanac

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)

• Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 - 2072. It's a long title, by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien.

Ep. 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate Movement

• Doing Democracy by Bill Moyer

Ep 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author Renan Bernardo

• A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo (Samovar Magazine, February 2023)

• A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity by Renan Bernardo (Escape Pod #863)

• Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo, Short Story Collection (Android Press) including The River that Passed Through My Life (originally published in Portuguese by Editora Dame Blanche)

Ep 5: Structure in Climate Storytelling

• Nothing is Promised series by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn

Ep 4: From Scientist to Author, In Conversation with Danielle Arostegui

• Solarpunk Drabble by Danielle Arostegui

Ep 3: Climate Fiction to Climate Action

• Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Slimy Things Did Crawl by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Tower Girls by Susan Kaye Quinn

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

Ep 1: Stories to Build a Better World

• Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn (text, audio) (also in German)

• Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone by T.K. Rex (text, audio)

• Metamorphosis collection (print only preorder from Milkweed Editions)