Theatre to engage the public in green alternatives
https://www.greeneconomycoalition.org/news-and-resources/using-theatre-to-engage-the-public-in-green-alternatives
Bad News is Bad News for Society
https://iai.tv/articles/bad-news-is-bad-news-for-society-auid-2824?_auid=2020
Five Books to Inspire Climate Action
https://theconversation.com/five-fiction-books-to-inspire-climate-action-223769
Feelings of a climate fiction author after COP28
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
How storytelling boosts environmental impact and engagement
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-storytelling-boosts-environmental-impact-and-engagement
How to publish sustainably
How to publish sustainably
Inspired to protest?
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
Social-science fiction or Thrutopia?
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
No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet
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
Anthology of Short Stories for COP27
I’m taking time off writing the sequel to Habitat Man to co-ordinate an anthology of climate solutions wrapped in short stories targeted at COP27 delegates. The idea is to bring together climate experts and experienced writers to promote green solutions in an engaging short story. I’ll be writing a few myself and here is the
