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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

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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

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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

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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

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