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The economy of collapse

Are we preparing for the end or just profiting from it?

May 18 •

Building imaginary worlds

An introduction to worldbuilding for climate fiction

Mar 31 •

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Julie Gabrielli

Tree huggers and digital minds

I wrote the coolest tree hugger in popular culture

Feb 13 •

Beyond the attention economy, true power lies in access to individuals

The TikTok ban and the future of personal privacy, control, and digital power

Jan 21 •

The economy of controlling women

The making of a story: 'Initiation'

Nov 8, 2024 •

The religion of the future: God is Change

In Octavia Butler's 'Parable Series' a fifteen-year-old hyperempath invents 'Earthseed' a new faith that will save the world

Aug 18, 2024 •

The future of food and of being human

A calorie company employee is after one of the last seed banks and a new human hopes to save herself in 'The Windup Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi

Jun 21, 2024 •

We won't save the planet in the next 200 years

A critical examination of climate change solutions

Mar 24, 2024 •

Letters from Arrakis

In which we talk about the Fremen and their Arrakis

Jan 15, 2024 •

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Alexander Ipfelkofer

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A depressing reading list for a future worth living

My climate fiction reading list for 2024

Jan 7, 2024 •

Climate change started thousands of years ago

And ancient farmers may have adverted an Ice Age for the foreseeable future

Dec 3, 2023 •

The Great Dying and the Little Ice Age: Unraveling a climate mystery

Exploring forgotten chapters of climate history

Sep 17, 2023 •

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