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New from Reckoning 9, "Cloud, Cloud", a multifaceted, mindbending essay by Siobhon Rumurang about rising sea levels in Guam and the South Pacific, the handwaving of the Global North, and the ways island peoples including Siobhon herself struggle to adapt and resist: reckoning.press/cloud-cloud/

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I'm imagining a sort of #solarpunk "shopping" platform where you entered the item you wanted and first got a list of local libraries of things where you could borrow one, then a list of local ones available secondhand, then national secondhand, then handmade ones and only finally links to buy it new.

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New @bcsmagazine issue today! Featuring stories by R.K. Duncan and Andrew Dykstal : https://weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-434/

Cover art for BCS #434, featuring a mountainous landscape with weird magical beams erupting from two of the peaks, one green and spiraling, one red and fiery

New today from Reckoning 9, "baby's breath" by Ellen K. Fee, a persistently plosive, alliterative poem about nonsense, sense, nature, the nature of language, and what words mean for raising a baby in an age of environmental collapse: https://reckoning.press/babys-breath/

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Solarpunk conference gear

Tshirt that says Move Purposefully and Fix Things

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Harvard will transfer five daguerreotypes, believed to be the earliest photographs of enslaved people, from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken. https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9

Somebody submitted an AI-generated essay, 3,000 words, about how to be a freelance writer!? They are banned now!

We could have written a much more effective essay on the same topic, aimed at the same target audience and without relying on an LLM to do our thinking for us, using just 1 word!

Don’t.

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Free to read online, my #solarpunk story IT'S IN THE BLOOD in @ReckoningMag

https://reckoning.press/its-in-the-blood/

#SolarpunkSunday #climatefiction #microplastics #bookstadon

microphone with blurred background
cover for Reckoning 8
It's in the Blood by Susan Kaye Quinn
microplastics and (quiet) revolution

New podcast episode! Produced and introduced by audio editor Aaron Kling, @thedrellum reads his story "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3, in which a team of scientists pour their hearts (literally) into detoxifying a poisoned lake: https://reckoning.press/podcast-episode-42-exit-here/

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Request your local library to carry the Bright Green Futures anthology (ebook or print)!

Here's how: https://susankayequinn.com/1-2-3-how-to-get-sues-ebooks-audiobooks-from-your-library

Bright Green Futures cover
sidewalk with cracks growing a flower
Stories to Build a Better World
Solarpunk

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—support your local library: check out books (funding is tied to circulation) & attend events! Libraries have ebooks & audiobooks too!

Make requests at your local bookstore or library: indie books are hard to find and they love recs from their patrons/customers.

REQUEST the Bright Green Futures anthology: https://lnk.to/BGF24website

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green sunny field
stories to build a better world
Bright Green Futures anthology in print and ebook

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Anti-intellectualism is raging: support a strong literary ecosystem:

—read a book, tell a friend, join a bookclub

—support indie bookstores: Bookshop.org or order in person at your local bookstore. Also look for events!
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A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 2/2 ☀️

Page 5. "I find that thinking about the way we do particular things now, and then trying to restructure them in a solarpunk way helps a lot (if said things are worth keeping in the first place). Like, how would (insert thing) work if we gave a damn about its environmental and societal consequences? What are the large and small effects of it?"
Then there's three sections, each dealing with a different issue.
First, "What does free access to information and the dissolution of copyright and patents help achieve?" Drawing: a lady is reading - quote "literally any book or study" - on an e-reader. In her arm she has an implant, a glucose monitor that is free to both obtain and maintain.
Second, "How does library culture affect societal attitudes? How are people with compulsive hoarding treated? What assumptions exist in such a world?" Drawing: two girls are chatting. One says she has like 20 borrowings lying around at home, and at that the other covers her mouth with her hands. "Girl, what? Return them immediately!"
Lastly, "How are people with so-called shitty though important jobs get treated when money isn't a factor anymore?" Drawing: a man announces to his partner that he feels like janitor-ing for a bit. The partner sees no problem in it.

6th and final page. "If you want more ideas to think about, check out the Solarpunk Prompts podcast." There's a link to it in the post below.
"Things need not be perfect, they just have to be better on the whole." Then there's another horizontal spread. On the left, a person is asking another to fix their phone. The second one seems impressed by how old the model is. The first person says they've had it since they were 15. On the right, a young girl is asking her dad if it's true that "water was forbidden" in the past. He looks a little dazed, saying "well, sort of?" and thinking "oh boy, it's time for the talk". In the middle is a city landscape with lots of fruit trees, a bike lane, a tramline. People are chatting, a kid is drawing on the pavement, someone sits on a bench, a bird nibbles on an apple.

"Just because something is hard to imagine doesn't mean it's impossible. Unless it's magic. Magic is pretty impossible. Anyway...Go forth! Imagine shit! Lest the doomerism fungus consume us!"
End of comic.

New today from Reckoning 9, "Toxic Heron", a vibrantly colorful illustration of a marsh bird resplendent in polluted death, by the vibrantly colorful @abistevensart.bsky.social: https://reckoning.press/toxic-heron/

"Toxic Heron" by Abi Stevens is an illustration of a dead heron contorted in an "s" shape with a flower in its beak, blood pouring from its empty eyesockets, and a pile of trash beneath its spread wings including plastic bottles, a pair of dice, a fish carcass and a snail

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"No party stands with immigrants."

A lot of profound sentences in this piece and so much more under the surface, but this is the one kicking me in the teeth this morning

New today from Reckoning 9, "A Haunting in Future Perfect Tense" by Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis, an incredibly timely and perceptive essay about the human consequences of immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico border: https://reckoning.press/a-haunting-in-future-perfect-tense/

New today from Reckoning 9, "The Coming of Sahara", a devastating essay about adapting to drought, desertification, and changed climate in Nigeria, by Solomon T. Hamza: https://reckoning.press/the-coming-of-sahara/

We had to order 5000 of these wee Reckoning promo cards to make the minimum print run to unlock the carbon-negative algae ink, so get ready to get tired of seeing these.

Super satisfying interaction with EcoEnclose; they were enthusiastic and the turnaround was swift. Would recommend

Box the cards came in says “thoughtfully packaged with eco-friendly shipping supplies”

Our new 100% pcr, algae ink, recyclable, compostable promo cards featuring our Moníca Robles Corzo skull guy. “Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice. Fiction, essays, poetry, art, reviews, paying professional rates, free to read and submit. Reckoning.press. And on the reverse it says “featuring/seeking work from BIPOC/racialised/2SLGBTQIA+/disabled/neurodivergent and/or otherwise marginalized folks - ecofascists get in the sea” and a QR code.

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And then there's the Bright Green Futures lists on Bookshop.org — Hopeful Climate Fiction, Climate non-fiction (but related to hopeful cli-fi), and the Solarpunk Starter Pack: https://bookshop.org/shop/BrightGreenFutures

Speaking of Earth Day, @MichaelJDeLuca will again be representing Reckoning at the Oakland County Earth Day Rally, March, and Fair, this Saturday afternoon in Royal Oak, MI: https://www.turnoaklandcountygreen.com/oakland-county-march

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