Stories for Earth: Climate Change in Pop Culture
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SubscribersG.G. Kellner joins the podcast to discuss her debut novel, Hope, A History of the Future. She and Forrest discuss hope, resilience, and how to build a better world.
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Joel Burcat is an author and environmental lawyer. He has written three award-winning environmental legal thrillers, the latest of which is Strange Fire.
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In part one of our discussion of New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson, we'll cover a plot summary and list of major characters. Stay tuned for part two, where we'll dive into analyzing this classic w...
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Alison Stine is an award-winning writer and the author of Trashlands.
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Sugar Birds tells the story of a young girl named Aggie who’s on the run from her troubles after lighting a terrible fire at her family’s home in the Pacific Northwest. I had the pleasure of talking t...
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Seeing The Day After Tomorrow as a youth was probably the first time I was exposed to the idea of climate change. And 17 years later, this film remains one of the only major Hollywood productions to e...
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A new conceptual art project called the Atlanta River Time Project aims to challenge the delusion that humans are separate from nature by offering an alternative method of timekeeping: the meander and...
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How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue tells the story of a fictional African village called Kosawa as it fights for environmental justice with the American oil company Pexton. While this is a work of f...
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Season 3 of Stories for Earth is coming to a podcasting platform near you soon. In our first episode, we'll discuss How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue.
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Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Nicholson are the co-creators of the climate video game Survive the Century, a choose-your-own-adventure style game where you make decisions about how to cover the climate ...
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I recently spoke with co-director Costa Boutsikaris about the new documentary Inhabitants, and I was absolutely fascinated with the time-tested ways of living in harmony with the environment the film ...
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Nina Munteanu is a prolific and insightful Canadian science fiction writer who has published nine books, including her most recent novel A Diary in the Age of Water. This novel imagines a Canada in th...
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Christopher C. Berke, or C.C. Berke, is the author of multiple short stories and the novel "Man, Kind." I got to ask Chris all my questions about the book, learn about what inspired him, and find one ...
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One February morning, I jumped on a Zoom call to interview Julie Carrick Dalton, author of the popular new novel Waiting for the Night Song. Julie spoke with me from New England, where she works as a ...
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Gun Island and The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh could not be more appropriate works for discussion on this podcast—they're both about the role stories play in fighting the climate emergency! In t...
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In January, I had the chance to sit down with Canadian science fiction and fantasy author Craig Russell to talk about his 2016 novel Fragment. Fragment follows a cast of characters ranging from scient...
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I finished reading The Overstory by Richard Powers in late 2020, but every time I tried to start writing about it, I got intimidated and quit. Thankfully, my new friend Lovis Geier asked me to come on...
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Joel Burcat is an author of environmental legal thrillers and a retired environmental lawyer for the state of Pennsylvania. In this interview, Forrest and Joel discuss his new novel "Amid Rage," publi...
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Isaac Yuen is a Chinese-Canadian nature writer and the founder of the website Ekostories. Isaac's writing ranges from short stories to personal essays to flash fiction, and his work often explores the...
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Weather by Jenny Offill tells the story of Lizzie Benson, a mildly disappointing former humanities student who works at a library in New York. Lizzie’s life is okay, not bad, until she gets a job mana...
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From the creator of Parasite and Snowpiercer comes Okja, a Netflix-exclusive film from South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho. This film is a deep dive into the world of genetically modified animals, fac...
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We take a deep dive into two of Joy Harjo's books, Crazy Brave and An American Sunrise, exploring what they say about Native history and environmentalism. Joy Harjo is a writer and performer of the Mu...
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Final Fantasy VII is a cult classic video game from the 90s, with a remake for PlayStation 4 that came out in April 2020. It might be famous for the cool and aloof Cloud Strife and characters with big...
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Our discussion of Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson covers a plot summary and explores what our future can look like through this utopian eco fiction novel.
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Daniel Quinn's ecofiction masterpiece, Ishmael, tells us how our mindset is destroying the Earth and leaves us with some ideas for a solution.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild has a lot to teach us about responding to climate change. Listen along to hear more about this film's environmental themes.
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Spirited Away from Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animated fairy tale film released in 2001. The movie tells the story of Chihiro, a young girl on a mission to rescue her family from the evil witch Yuba...
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Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler is the second book in the Parable series. Tune in for a plot summary and our take on major themes.
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Octavia E. Butler was a prolific and insightful science fiction writer from Pasadena, CA. Her book Parable of the Sower examines a near-future United States wrecked by climate change.
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Climate change is an existential threat that threatens humanity's existence. But we aren't totally alone in fighting it—stories are some of our oldest tools for overcoming hardship, and they have a ro...
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Stories for Earth is about everything climate change in pop culture. We believe stories found in books, movies, TV series, video games, and more can help climate change feel more relatable and help us envision the kind of future we want. New episodes every month! Learn more at storiesforearth.com.
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