The Solarpunk Futures card game let’s players solve problems and build utopias together through collaborative and cooperative storytelling.
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How To Create Conflict in Solarpunk and Utopian Writing
It’s easier than you think because conflict is through character. If you start off by creating a solid character then conflict will automatically grow. Secondly just because you have a Solarpunk or Utopian world doesn’t mean there are no conflicts.
UPCOMING CLASS: Writing Climate Fiction in the Age of Climate Disaster
Climate change is our present and our future. Writing Climate Fiction in the Age of Climate Disaster is a six session creative writing course that focuses on writing stories that center climate and climate change.
Free Guy and Building Utopia
This is a movie that lived in dystopia, but it didn’t end there. It ended with optimism, hope, and a beautiful, new, utopian world.
Tom Hanks’s “Finch” isn’t Solarpunk, it’s a Solarflop
I wanted to be able to call this film solarpunk. I wanted to like this movie and come away from it excited. Unfortunately, neither ended up being the case.
Building Utopia Pt 3: Harmony Between Humanity, Technology, and Nature
How do we build harmony between humanity, technology, and nature?
Building Utopia Pt 2: How to Tell if the Future You’re Building is Utopian
How do we ensure the utopian worlds we are building aren’t, in fact, dystopian nightmares?
Solarpunk Magazine on Oregon Public Broadcasting
What if humans came together to solve the climate crisis? What if people from marginalized groups all felt safe in society? The solarpunk genre imagines creative answers to these questions.
Building Utopia Pt 1: Utopia in the Age of Climate Crisis
Utopianism doesn’t have be to pie in the sky and impractical. It doesn’t have to be unachievable. Real utopia can exist. We can imagine a better future and create a new world for the next generations.