This week, we’re joined by Sarena Ulibarri, Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press and a science fiction writer whose works include Glass and Gardens and Biketopia, and Ed Finn, the Director of the Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University, to talk about how solarpunk can shape our understanding of climate change, social issues, and the future. They discuss the immense potential of storytelling in defining an achievable vision for a more sustainable world through a version of science fiction that offers a balance of realism and imagination. In fact, this imagination, Ulibarri and Finn argue, is one of our greatest tools; because issues such as climate change and various sociopolitical concepts have many solutions, applied imagination can help us explore the wide variety of potential solutions as an alternative to fatalism or denial. They also touch upon the unique optimism of solarpunk, particularly in how proposing a better future through the lens of fiction has the ability to excite and invigorate readers towards enacting change. They note that people’s innate desire to feel good means that we must create a new language for debating the immense changes coming our way. This kind of optimism might be niche now, but Solarpunk literature and culture models alternatives and recruits people who actively work to achieve them. A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Some of Ullibarri’s works:Glass and GardensBiketopiaAdventures in Zookeeping Organizations, programs, and foundations mentioned:World Weaver Press (Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief) Center for Science and Imagination at Arizona State University (Finn is Director) Projects include:Future Tense, a collaboration between ASU, New America, and Slate magazine Luna CityThe Weight of LightCities of LightThe Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ WorkshopResearch Institute for Humanity and NatureThe National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)Media mentioned:Solarpunk Chobani commercialAuthors mentioned:Jeff VanderMeerMarian Womack, author of The SwimmersNeal Stephenson, author of “Innovation Starvation”Margaret AtwoodKim Stanley Robinson, author of ”The Coronavirus and Our Future”Raymond WilliamsFrancesco VersoFor more on Solarpunk:Imaginary Worlds Podcast: “Solarpunk the Future”Trajectory of “Punk” artistic movements:Punk RockCyberpunkSteampunkCheck these past episodes we referenced:Episode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory DoctorowEpisode 64: Japanese Science Fiction with William O. GardnerEpisode 65: Design Fiction and the Pandemic with Bruce Sterling and Jasmina TešanovićEpisode 66: The Legacy of Octavia E. Butler with Damian E. Duffy, John Jennings, and Shelley StreebyEpisode 36: Korean Science Fiction: Imagining other worldsShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:Sieudiver: Solarpunk City“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at [email protected]:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

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