#hopepunk

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"Benjamín Maldonado is a 21 year old Chilean doing his BA Cultural Anthropology thesis on solarpunk. He’s created a really interesting survey to try and take the temperature of the scene. It only takes about 5 minutes to complete and he’s said he’ll share the findings.

Be awesome and fill it out by clicking on the link here: https://leidenuniv.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fzn8imjfXxWTyK " — via Solarpunk Stories

https://solarpunkstories.substack.com/p/how-solarpunk-could-2040-be

The Solarpunk Survey me, smiling normally Thanks for taking interest in my survey! You can read all about it in the following paragraphs a plant I drew in MS paint

In case you missed it, my short story collection is now available in print and ebook!

These hopeful stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world.

(print copies are especially pretty and would make good gifts for someone needing uplift around the )

https://lnk.to/HtBwebsite

image of pine tree branch and cover for Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn, solarpunk stories, just released

A series of technical difficulties means I just now have a print pre-order of my collection ready (releases Monday!).

THE GOOD NEWS: now you can get it on Bookshop.org!

In a world of big tech companies eating the world, supporting independent art/books/bookstores is more important than ever.

HOW BOOKSHOP.ORG works: you pick the bookstore you'd like to benefit from the sale; your book will be shipped straight to you.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/halfway-to-better-short-story-collection-susan-kaye-quinn/21370866?ean=9798869299239

Halfway to better book by Susan Kaye Quinn against backdrop of wheat field and sun Now Available in Print Stories to Build a Better World

Amazon is being a pain, but this week's free story is *mostly* free (sorry, Australia!).

THE DAY WE STOPPED BURNING is *very* short, but I also kinda love it a lot.

SHORT STORY
A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift.

It's one of six solarpunk stories in Halfway to Better.
https://lnk.to/BurningWebsite

The story of the print-making art: https://susankayequinn.com/making-art-for-halfway-to-better

orange linocut print cover for THE DAY WE STOPPED BURNING by Susan Kaye Quinn

America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit.
"The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."

https://thegardenmagazine.com/this-area-in-detroit-is-now-americas-first-self-sustainable-agrihood/

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/first-sustainable-urban-agrihood/

Picture from article - this is America's first urban "agrihood" in Detroit. The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more.

NEW PODCAST! Bright Green Futures is a podcast & substack where we lift up stories that imagine a more just & sustainable world & talk about the struggle to get there.

The purpose is to collect up hopeful cli-fi stories and writers in one place, so we can build community and work together to surface these stories & grow the genre.

Subscribing to the Bright Green Futures substack gets you the pod & the newsletter & a list of recommended and stories

https://www.brightgreenfutures.wtf

podcast playing on phone Bright Green Futures (podcast) Stories to Build a Better World. BrightGreenFutures.wtf