Butterfly Mind: Envisioning Literary Worlds of Sustainable Societies

“All solutions are right here, they just have to catch on” is a conviction of Denise Baden, an ethical author and sustainability professor, that poetically resonates in all her stories: Habitat Man, No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, Anthology of Short Stories for COP27, and The Assassin. Making a virtue of necessity, Denise illuminates us on how environmental literature connects people to climate change solutions by mobilizing our social awareness and conscientious into embracing the change needed.

Literature transcends Denise into an Audre Lorde for environmental literacy, “forming the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change.” On this episode of Climify, we are joined by an educator and author, whose work complements Project Drawdown Communications and Storytelling by constructing worlds infused with conversational currency toward catalyzing citizen assembly, social commentary, and critiques enabling climate reforms.