Sustainability Salon on Hopeful Visions

Making this the inaugural Summer Author Series (following on our great discussion with Kristina Marusic last month) — and ending the summer on a positive note — we will welcome Susan Kaye Quinn, environmental engineer turned writer of speculative fiction, solarpunk, and hopepunk climate fiction; astronomer, author, mentor, organizer, and dark-sky advocate Diane Turnshek; and author and publisher Scot Noel for a conversation about hopeful visions for the future.

Stories are how we understand the world, and a shift to positive narratives about the struggle for a just, sustainable world can act as a balm and inspiration for action.  Susan Kaye Quinn will talk about the role positive stories play in the fight for a better world.  She’ll discuss the ten elements of hopepunk, how activists are increasingly focused on solutions-based narratives, and how efforts to get climate stories on the screen could change how we talk about the crisis. She’ll share her works as well as other stories that can restore, inspire, and help grow the hope we need to work together in this fight.

Also joining us will be Scot Noel, founder and publisher of DreamForge: a magazine of fiction and commentary that embody humane values of compassion, cooperation, creativity, integrity, and hope (as well as an award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy himself).  He’s a major proponent of, and frequent speaker on, solarpunk and hopepunk literature.

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