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Danielle Arostegui
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
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Author of speculative & climate fiction. Climate policy nerd. Garden witch.

Currently writing a YA novel about faeries fighting climate change.
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Danielle Arostegui @daniellearostegui.bsky.social · Apr 22
Happy Earth Day 🌎 !!!

The Bright Green Futures Anthology is out NOW.

Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.

Links to purchase here: susankayequinn.com/books/bright...
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Ok friends...if you want more people to know about #solarpunk, I've got a thing you can do: request solarpunk books at the library.

This page has details: HOW, WHY, 10 Solarpunk Books Every Library Should Have

brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/for-librar...

#hopepunk #libraries #ClimateChange
Request Solarpunk at the Library
I’m a huge fan of distributed action: a lot of people doing a thing in a lot of places can have huge impact, even if each action seems small.
brightgreenfutures.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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darthj.uno
Check out Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) by @samuelaweeks.com on @kickstarter.com! Help make a beautiful physical edition full of climate fiction stories and art, uncluding a cover designed by Mateusz Urbanowicz (who worked on Your Name and Weathering With You)!
Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.
www.kickstarter.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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habitatspress.com
12 days left to get us funded! 🚀 Help us continue printing optimistic sci-fi and fantasy:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

#solarpunk #scifi #fantasy #scifibooks #fantasybooks
Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy)
The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.
www.kickstarter.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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brightflame.bsky.social
🧵 Delightful to hang with @daniellearostegui.bsky.social in person! We're connected via our #CliFi #solarpunk in @susankayequinn.bsky.social 's BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology. Someday all of us together @singingtotigers.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com @tkrex.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social!
July 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
My TBR shelf is starting to overflow!

Think I’m going to tackle the solarpunk Nothing is Promised series by @susankayequinn.bsky.social next!
A bookshelf full of books I want to read with a rapier and a wand lying next to them
June 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
What a lovely review to wake up to! 🌞
lizottosson.bsky.social Liz Ottosson @lizottosson.bsky.social · Jun 29
I'm having a lovely time reading Bright Green Futures, edited by @susankayequinn.bsky.social. This morning's treat was A Merger in Corn Country by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social - very bright, very green, very thrutopian as well. Well worth your time if you're looking for hopeful climate futures! 💚
June 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Ok SCIENCE as to why I was smitten by these gorgeous botanical illustrations &had to use them for the cover of this #solarpunk collection!
@renanbernardo.com
@sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
@tkrex.bsky.social
@brightflame.bsky.social
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
@singingtotigers.bsky.social
Bright green futures cover
June 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Solarpunk Book Club tomorrow- 9:30 EST, dm me for zoom link

Discussing: “The Doglady and the Rainstorm” by @renanbernardo.com and “Coriander” by @singingtotigers.bsky.social

This is our last week with “Bright Green Futures” ed. @susankayequinn.bsky.social so don’t miss it!
June 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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brightflame.bsky.social
Hope to see #solarpunk friends here to discuss the awesome stories by @renanbernardo.com & @singingtotigers.bsky.social . Authors welcome, and it's been really interesting hearing others' offer insights about our stories! #WritingCommunity #SpecLit #reading #books #SFF @susankayequinn.bsky.social
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · Jun 4
Solarpunk Book Club tomorrow- 9:30 EST, dm me for zoom link

Discussing: “The Doglady and the Rainstorm” by @renanbernardo.com and “Coriander” by @singingtotigers.bsky.social

This is our last week with “Bright Green Futures” ed. @susankayequinn.bsky.social so don’t miss it!
June 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
LAST DAY to enter the giveaway!

open.substack.com/pub/brightgr...

#giveaway
LAST DAY for the Giveaway!
Request the Bright Green Futures anthology at your library!
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
LAST DAY to grab this #solarpunk story free!
lnk.to/BGF24S6website
person standing in water at sunset Coriander cover solarpunk Free until May 29th
May 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Grab it now, read it for free, discuss it at our book club next Wednesday!
May 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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brightflame.bsky.social
We had a rich #solarpunk discussion last week: my and @tkrex.bsky.social 's stories. Looking forward to meeting more of you tonight. Thank you Chris for creating this #book club! #WritingCommunity #SpecLit #SFF @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @susankayequinn.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
Hi all, @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social is running a solarpunk book club tonight, discussing the Bright Green Futures anthology, in particular stories from @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social & @tkrex.bsky.social !

May 28 (tonight) 9:30p ET (Zoom)

us05web.zoom.us/j/8895674431...
Stories to Build a better world Bright Green Futures anthology
May 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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chrisrmuscato.bsky.social
Solarpunk Book Club today!

“What Kind of Bat is This” by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
“A Merger in Corn Country” by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social and “The Park of the Beast” by @tkrex.bsky.social

9:30pm EST- all welcome!
DM for zoom link

susankayequinn.com/books/bright...
Bright Green Futures: 2024
SHORT STORY COLLECTION (Solarpunk Anthology) Available Now The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where…
susankayequinn.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
So tickled by this! Thanks @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social for discussing my story in your book club!
chrisrmuscato.bsky.social Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · May 27
This Wednesday 9:30 EST our Solarpunk Book Club will be discussing “What Kind of Bat is This” by @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social
“A Merger in Corn Country” by @daniellearostegui.bsky.social and “The Park of the Beast” by @tkrex.bsky.social - all available in Bright Green Futures

DM for zoom link
May 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
For #SolarpunkSunday I have a 🧵 full of works for your consideration:

Bright Green Futures anthology of hopeful climate fiction with authors like @renanbernardo.com & @daniellearostegui.bsky.social
Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.

lnk.to/BGF24website

(ebook&print)
sidewalk with flower growing in the cracks Bright Green Futures cover with illustrated botanical drawings of flowers Solarpunk
May 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
I'm attending MountainTrue's event, “2025 MountainTrue BioBlitz at Hickory Nut Gap Farm near Asheville, NC 6/21” - sign up now to join me! #B www.mobilize.us/mountaintrue...
2025 MountainTrue BioBlitz at Hickory Nut Gap Farm near Asheville, NC 6/21 · MountainTrue
Each year, MountainTrue hosts a BioBlitz to record all the species we can find in a given area. We identify and catalog organisms using the online app iNaturalist. The BioBiltz this year will be on Ju...
www.mobilize.us
May 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
Today’s the last day to grab my story from the Bright Green Futures anthology for free!
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
LAST DAY to grab this #solarpunk story free!

lnk.to/BGF24S4website
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social

#booksky #climatefiction #climatesky #communalliving
farm field with cover of A Merger In Corn Country Free until May 13th
May 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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brightflame.bsky.social
My #solarpunk story is free thru 5/20! 👀

BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology by @susankayequinn.bsky.social 😍💝☀️@singingtotigers.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social @renanbernardo.com.

#climate #hope #justice #SFF susankayequinn.com/books/ancest...
brown trunk and green leaves on thick branches of massive tree in background with white book cover for "Ancestors, Descendants" in foreground. Text: FREE until May 20th"
May 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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singingtotigers.bsky.social
Few things beat receiving an author copy! My climate adaptation story touches on heritage, food and family.

Alongside fab tales by @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social, edited by: @susankayequinn.bsky.social
Photo of three physical copies of “Bright Green Futures 2024” on a wooden table. Image of a book open to the opening paragraphs of my story, titled “Coriander”.
May 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
The footage of bottom trawling alone makes the film worth watching. Let’s hope this destructive method of killing ocean creatures is outlawed soon.
David Attenborough’s Ocean reveals how bottom trawling is hurting sealife in horrifying detail
Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of recovery.
theconversation.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
daniellearostegui.bsky.social
As a former employee of the Library of Congress, this is disheartening to say the least.
markey.senate.gov Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · May 9
Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden—the Librarian of Congress—via email. This is disgraceful. The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all.
Senator Markey stands with Dr. Carla Hayden and a group of children at the Malden Library
May 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM