I’d like to begin by thanking those who took the time to complete the survey after watching the debut performance of ‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’. It is a brand new play, and so it’s helpful for me as writer to polish the script. It’s also useful from a research perspective, to assess the effectiveness
https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/news-and-resources/using-theatre-to-engage-the-public-in-green-alternatives
https://iai.tv/articles/bad-news-is-bad-news-for-society-auid-2824?_auid=2020
https://theconversation.com/five-fiction-books-to-inspire-climate-action-223769
What does a sustainability professor and climate fiction author make of COP28? Before I even arrived, there were accusations of COP28 as being a giant greenwashing exercise, with the President of COP28 being at the same time CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. His comments casting doubt on the necessity to phase out fossil
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-storytelling-boosts-environmental-impact-and-engagement
How to publish sustainably
I saw Nicola Chester read an extract from her memoir about her experiences as an environmental protestor at the ‘Wild Women: Writing the Earth’ Symposium yesterday, and it blew me away. If you’re wondering whether to join the XR ‘Big One’ protest in London this weekend (21st – 24th April), this might inspire you to
At a session at COP27 with speculative fiction writer Andrew Dana Hudson on how fiction can help save the climate, I may have accidentally coined a term ‘social-science fiction’. Just as science fiction helps us to imagine the pros and cons of new technologies, social-science fiction can help us imagine how transformative systemic solutions, such
I run the Green Stories project and our aim is to move beyond preaching to the converted to share climate solutions using fiction. A key goal is to encourage writers to create positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there. This year we have been working with
