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As the Earth warms and many parts of America become uninhabitable, where will Americans go to find new homes? How will the communities built by American-born climate migrants be different from those they left? What can turn the hope of a new beginning into the nightmare they had been trying to flee?

This week, we talk to Michelle Min Sterling, author of the new book "Camp Zero". Set in 2049, "Camp Zero" tells the story of two American settlements, one government-funded and one privately-funded, trying to establish new communities now that America has been ravaged by droughts, storms, and floods fueled by an ever-worsening climate crisis.

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We all have ideas for stories, but if our inner critic has a say, our stories might stay trapped forever. In this edition of the Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Cooper Levey-Baker, author of the new dystopian book Dead Fish Wind about how he turned a 3-minute free-writing exercise into a novel...after he calmed his inner critic.

Cooper Levey-Baker is a writer and journalist. His fiction has appeared in the Sierra Nevada Review and Burrow Press's Fantastic Floridas series, and his journalism has won multiple awards from the Florida Magazine Association and the Florida Society of Professional Journalists. Dead Fish Wind is his first novel.

We all have ideas for stories, but if our inner critic has a say, our stories might stay trapped forever. In this edition of the Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Cooper Levey-Baker, author of the new dystopian book Dead Fish Wind about how he turned a 3-minute free-writing exercise into a novel...after he calmed his inner critic.

Cooper Levey-Baker is a writer and journalist. His fiction has appeared in the Sierra Nevada Review and Burrow Press's Fantastic Floridas series, and his journalism has won multiple awards from the Florida Magazine Association and the Florida Society of Professional Journalists. Dead Fish Wind is his first novel.

"Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives" — published in Apex Magazine, issue 128, December 2021.

Read it here: https://apex-magazine.com/soil-of-our-home-storm-of-our-lives/

Renan Bernardo is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Dark Matter Magazine, Three Crows Magazine, Simultaneous Times Podcast, and Life Beyond Us, an anthology organized by the European Astrobiology Institute. He was one of the writers selected for the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest with his story “When It’s Time to Harvest.” In Brazil, he was a finalist for two important SFF awards and published multiple stories. His fiction has also appeared in Portuguese and Italian. He can be found on Twitter (@RenanBernardo) and his website www.renanbernardo.com.

This story was narrated by Sanderson Tavares. Sanderson Tavares is a Brazilian musician, translator, and copy editor, with a not-at-all-secret love for voice acting, a career that he's been pursuing ever since one of those infamous pandemic identity crises hit him in the head (We've all had those, right?!). If you can't find him on a stage playing bass with his pop-rock band Kenzzy, try looking for him on one of his 4 weekly RPG sessions, where his love of storytelling matches his nerdy interests in a perfect marriage.

This Apex Magazine podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Theme music by Alex White. Other music in this podcast includes "Immersive," "Thunder Dreams." and "Scissors," all by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Some sounds in this podcast are provided by the Free Sound Project. Find out more at www.freesound.org.

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Apex Magazine is a bimonthly short fiction zine focused on dark science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Find us at http://www.apex-magazine.com.

In this episode Juliet, Rebecca and Veronica explore the ways that Google could help everyone sound less like a jerk on the internet and imagine themselves into the wild world of a Simlish voice actor. They also speak with Dani Cessna, hunter, park ranger, backpacker, Cli-fi fiction writer and all-around cool person. Dani offers a glimpse into the world of being a conservationist, the ways she’s seen climate change impact our National Parks and why you should start talking to your park rangers. Check it out now, especially if you’re a Google executive who’s ready to make “Google Niceties” happen.

Note: Dani is speaking to us personally from her broad range of experiences, and not speaking on behalf of the National Park Service or the U.S. Government.

This week, Lydia Millet, author of "A Children's Bible", a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year, joins the show to talk about why she wanted to explore intergenerational responses to the climate crisis in her new novel. We discuss coping mechanisms, the role of religion, parenting, and much more. 

Co-hosts Ty Benefiel and Brock Benefiel also talk about their expectations for what may drive climate politics in 2021. 

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Further Reading:

An Epic Storm Turns a Summer Holiday Into Potent Allegory

Rise Up and Save Us, Joe Biden

In episode 123 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts returning guest - climate fiction expert - Dr. Amy Brady!  This is Amy’s third time on the podcast and we catch up on topics like:  climate writers reaching out to scientists; can cli-fi influence people’s behavior to take action on climate change; is a climate pulp fiction emerging; how the tv and movie industry are taking note of climate fiction; the prevalence of climate justice in cli-fi; and the challenges of storytelling when climate change is a recurring story device. These and other topics are covered with this conversation with Dr. Amy Brady!  

Topics covered:

• How climate fiction writers are reaching out to climate scientists.
• Is climate ‘pulp fiction’ emerging?
• Turning people into climate activists through climate fiction!
• The current state of climate fiction.
• How climate fiction is making the leap to movies and TV.
• Updated survey work of Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
• Is climate justice showing up in climate fiction work?
• How can you write fiction when climate change is the bad guy in every story.

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Links in this episode:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Ants-of-God-Novelists-make-15671423.php?cmpid=gsa-chron-result#photo-20156628

Burning Worlds Newsletter
https://chireviewofbooks.com/category/burning-worlds/

The Perfect Stool Podcast
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Mihiro Shimano (the intern!) articles
https://huntnewsnu.com/60888/city-pulse/local-officials-and-activists-put-forth-plans-to-combat-rising-sea-levels/
https://gobserver.net/2020/07/24/how-blm-shifted-conversations-in-asia/
https://open.spotify.com/show/1BrlOKQDABRBTnI6Bgi62m?si=QIVRVfMlSJe9hObo9zSQVg

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Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/

Article on using podcasts in the Classroom:
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Here Are 10 of the Best Climate Change Podcasts Out Right Now
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The best climate change podcasts on The Climate Advisor
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7 podcasts to learn more about climate change and how to fight it
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Can we adapt to a speedily changing climate with all the extreme weather events challenging our communities in wave after wave?  Beth Gibbons, Executive Director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) shares her journey & what she & her expert colleagues from far and wide are doing.  Listen to "Collaborating for Climate Adaptation" (Multi-Hazards Podcast S02 E20). Check out the Study Guide, click on the top left "PDF": https://multi-hazards.libsyn.com/collaborating-for-climate-adaptation-conversation-with-beth-gibbons

Beth Gibbons is the Executive Director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP). In this role, she is responsible for strengthening the capacities of individual adaptation professionals, adaptation and resilience oriented organizations, and accelerating the evolution of the adaptation field of practice.Beth brings over a decade of experience in sustainable development and climate adaptation to her role. Prior to joining ASAP, Beth directed the University of Michigan's Climate Center and managed NOAA’s Great Lakes Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center. Beth served in the Peace Corps in Agodopke, Togo and holds a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.

In episode 89 of America Adapts, host Doug Parsons interviews Yale-Nus College Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies Dr. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson about his recent literacy research on how “Cli-Fi”, or climate change science fiction, can influence a reader’s behavior. Doug is joined in this interview by Cli-Fi expert, Dr. Amy Brady, a previous guest on America Adapts.  In a bonus conversation, Doug interviews Laur Hesse Fisher, host of a new podcast, Today I Learned: Climate (TILClimate), based out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Discover how this new podcast is teaching climate fundamentals in short, science driven episodes.

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Other Topics covered:

• Using “Cli-Fi” to influence a reader’s behavior.
• Amy Brady weighs in on need for empirical evidence in the cli fi genre.
• Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, says “the future is a distant country.”
• Using “Cli-Fi” to move people from just awareness to actual action.
• “Cli-Fi” can help bring people together to talk about climate change.

Links in this episode:
https://yale-nus.academia.edu/MatthewSchneiderMayerson
https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/about/faculty/matthew-schneider-mayerson/
http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-tilclimate-podcast-breaks-down-climate-change-facts-0502
https://www.academia.edu/37913124/The_Influence_of_Climate_Fiction_An_Empirical_Survey_of_Readers
https://climate.mit.edu/users/tilclimate-podcast
https://climate.mit.edu/
https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/

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In episode 58 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with author and lecturer Elizabeth Rush, of Brown University. Elizabeth is the author of the upcoming book, Rising – Dispatches from the New American Shore.  Topics discussed in this episode:

• What is ‘creative non-fiction.’
• Elizabeth explains how humans have or don’t have the emotional resilience to respond to climate change
• Writing “adaptation metaphors.”
• Narrative devices like “The Hero’s Journey” to make climate change resonate.
• The emerging role of Cli- Fi, climate science fiction.
• And much more!

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In episode 32 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks “Cli-Fi” with Dr. Amy Brady, Senior Editor with the Chicago Review of Books.  Amy just debuted a monthly column dedicated specifically to cli-fi called "Burning Worlds." Doug and Amy cover such diverse topics as:

• CLI-FI – What is Cli-Fi? Learn the history of this emerging genre of fiction.
• BURNING WORLDS - Amy describes her new monthly column focusing on this emerging field and what she hopes to accomplish with the column.
• AUTHOR AS CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVIST – Amy explains the backgrounds of various Cli-Fi authors and how some see their role as inspiring readers to take action on climate change.
• SCIENCE FICTION OR HIGH ART – Since Cli Fi is such a new area of fiction, it’s unclear if it’s considered just another form of science fiction, or something else. Doug and Amy discuss the controversies associated with the genre.
• SCIENCE OR SCIENCE FICTION – Doug and Amy discuss the use of sound science in writing Cli-Fi and what responsibilities authors feel in using science in writing fiction.
• NUCLEAR AGE VERSUS THE CLIMATE AGE – Doug and Amy discuss the parallels between the nuclear age of the 50s and 60s and how that drove science fiction writing and how climate change will influence literature.
• SCENARIO PLANNING WITH FICTION WRITERS – Doug and Amy discuss the possibility of fiction writers joining adaptation planners and scientists in the scenario planning process, relying on their creative talents to create a likely future scenario.
• GRAPES OF WRATH – Amy argues that John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath was the original Cli-Fi novel.
• MUST READ CLI FI AUTHORS – Amy gives her suggestions on Cli Fi authors. She identifies books for new readers or for the robust consumers of fiction. 

Additional Segment(starts at 55:45 into podcast):  Dr. Molly Cross (previous guest!) and Darren Long from the Wildlife Conservation Society come on for a short discussion to promote the call for proposals for the Adaptation Fund, one of the first granting programs focusing on climate adaptation. They discuss deadlines, strategies for applying and examples of previous grantees. We also briefly discuss the Atlanta Falcons historic collapse in the Super Bowl (Darren is a big Falcons fan).

Additional Resources:

Dr. Amy Brady
https://chireviewofbooks.com/author/dramybrady/

Burning World Column
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/02/08/the-man-who-coined-cli-fi-has-some-reading-suggestions-for-you/

Cli Fi resources:
http://cli-fi.net/ and eco-fiction.com.

Essays that provide quick overviews of the genre:
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/26/the_rise_of_climate_fiction_when_literature_takes_on_global_warming_and_devastating_droughts/

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/climate-fiction-margaret-atwood-literature/400112/

Anti Cli-Fi:  emerging as a conservative rebuttal to clifi's more progressive stance on climate change:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-untapped-value-of-clifi-shakespeare-passover-supergirl-and-game-of-thrones-5344df553732#.lb0man9di

Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adaptation Fund
http://wcsclimateadaptationfund.org/program-information

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