Ep 12: Building Movement Through Hopeful Climate Fiction with Editor Tory Stephens

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: annual list of climate and justice leaders to watch

* Octavia’s Brood by adrienne maree brown

* Daybreak, cooperative tabletop game about the climate

* Dear Tomorrow, sharing personal climate messages

* Climate Imaginarium, center for climate and culture

* Arizona State University, Center for Science and the Imagination

* ASU’s Climate Action Almanac—Bright Green Futures highlighted their trailer in Episode 9

* Submit to Imagine 2200

* The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger

* The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

* An AI plots to take over a community’s solar power by Paolo Bacigalupi (Grist)

* Under the Grid: Detroit goes full-on solar in this fictional future by Andrew Dana Hudson (Grist)

(transcript available on substack)

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