For Earth Day last year, a list of books looking to possible positive futures was put together – including a classic:

To celebrate Earth Day, we gathered a list of five inspiring books that represent a solarpunk alternative to the near and distant futures.

Island by Aldous Huxley | Harper Perennial 

From the author of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s final novel, Island, is his imagination of what an ideal society might become if left to develop on a remote Pacific Island for 120 years. In its many spiritual and societal advances, the island of Pala has accumulated a number of enemies that might try to conspire against it. Huxley himself considered this to be his most important novel as it tells the story of how a cynical outsider can completely transform their way of thinking if given the opportunity to embrace a more positive and hopeful state of mind — and way of life. “Huxley’s final word about the human condition and the possibility of the good society,” writes The New York Times Book Review, “is a welcome and in many ways unique addition to the select company of books — from Plato to now — that have presented, in imaginary terms, a coherent view of what society is not but might be.”

Greener Horizons: 5 Solarpunk Views of the Near and Distant Futures | BookTrib.

Here’s a list for this year:

Earth Day – Rewilding Our Stories – Dragonfly: An exploration of eco-fiction

And there are lots more stories to inspire:

A solarpunk library – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Narratives around climate change: Eco-fiction genres – Sidmouth Solarpunk

Ursula le Guin: solarpunk author – Sidmouth Solarpunk

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