2047 Short Stories from Our Common Future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781981300358)

Tanja Rohini Bisgaard is Norwegian and writes short fiction about a future world where the environment has changed as a result of pollution, climate change, and extensive use of natural resources. Kimberly Christensen is a resident of the Pacific Northwest, Kimberly writes about all things sustainable-from organic gardening to breastfeeding to waste reduction. Richard Friedman's self-published novel, Escape to Canamith, was a fan favorite at the 2014 Green Festival in New York City, and in 2016, he published The Two Worlds of Billy Callahan. In October 2017, Richard was selected to attend Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps training. John A. Frochio stories have been published in various places, including the literary journals Aurora Wolf and Liquid Imagination, SciFan Magazine, and various anthologies. He's also published the novel Roots of a Priest (coauthored with Ken Bowers, 2007) and the short-story collection Large and Small Wonders (2012). Alison Halderman-teacher, writer, caregiver, and otherwise known as Grammy-still loves going barefoot in her beloved Oregon. Lene K. Kristoffersen is a teacher, a mother, and a creative soul who lives in Denmark. Her main focus is the world's animals and other innocent beings. She has written numerous poems and short stories. Ruth Mundy is a songwriter and singer from New Zealand. She is a musical poet who sings stories of love and protest. Environmental degradation is overtaking our capacity for solutions. L X Nishimoto believes that fiction is our last best hope. Let visions of the future awaken us to empathy, warn us to make better decisions, and inspire us to reinvent tomorrow. Isaac Yuen's work can be found in Orion, River Teeth's Beautiful Things, Tin House online, and as a "Notable" mention in the 2017 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. He is the creator of Ekostories, an essay blog exploring ideas around nature, culture, and identity. Isaac currently lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people. David Zetland is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in Den Haag in the Netherlands. He blogs at aguanomics.com and has written two books: The End of Abundance (2011) and Living with Water Scarcity (2014). He is now working on the Life Plus 2 Meters project, which uses crowdsourcing to provide people with different visions of how we might (not) adapt to life in a climate changed world.