Essays
"Do you believe in climate solutions? You just might be a solarpunk." Fix (Grist Magazine), April 2022
We are artists and writers and musicians. We are activists and community organizers and urban planners. We are architects and scientists and engineers. We are gardeners and gamers and makers.
We are the solarpunks. You might be one, too.
It is easier to imagine the darker path. It is useful to explore that path and its implications, to steer away from dangerous potential, to experience your own dark emotions reflected back at you from the page. It is also useful to explore the brighter side, to remember that the sun moves in cycles and the darkness never lasts, to explore the possibility that innovation and change do not always have to be approached with fear.
Long before she envisioned growing a garden in the post-apocalyptic plains of Wyoming, my mother envisioned a different type of future: one in which love and peace reigned. In college she was a flower child—not a hippie, she’ll always correct—part of a group of free spirits pushing back against the conformity they’d been raised in, asking for a world without war and hatred. The movement began in San Francisco, but my mother lived in Oklahoma, half a continent away from the epicenter.
"Che fare se il mondo non finisce?" (Italian language reprint of "What Do We Do When the World Doesn't End?"), trans. by Franco Ricciardiello, Solarpunk.it, June 2021
Interviews
Lightspeed Author Spotlight: Sarena Ulibarri by Robyn Lupo
NewMyths.com Contributor Spotlight: Sarena Ulibarri
Revista Mamut, Solarpunk Gardens: an Interview with Sarena Ulibarri
Yale Climate Connections, Solarpunk: The Antidote to Doom and Gloom
"Small Press Spotlight: Small Beer Press" Subito website, January 2014
"They Lived Unofficially in Vacant Dormitory Rooms: An Interview with Wendell Mayo" The Lit Pub, Nov 2013
NewMyths.com Contributor Spotlight: Sarena Ulibarri
Revista Mamut, Solarpunk Gardens: an Interview with Sarena Ulibarri
Yale Climate Connections, Solarpunk: The Antidote to Doom and Gloom
"Small Press Spotlight: Small Beer Press" Subito website, January 2014
"They Lived Unofficially in Vacant Dormitory Rooms: An Interview with Wendell Mayo" The Lit Pub, Nov 2013
Podcasts
How Do You Like it So Far: Episode 84: Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on Solarpunk
https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/episode-84-sarena-ulibarri-ed-finn-solarpunk/
https://www.howdoyoulikeitsofar.org/episode-84-sarena-ulibarri-ed-finn-solarpunk/
Writing While the World Burns: What Does It Mean to Be a Writer During the Climate Crisis?
kittysneezes.com/writing-while-the-world-burns-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-writer-during-the-climate-crisis/
kittysneezes.com/writing-while-the-world-burns-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-writer-during-the-climate-crisis/