Essays

"The Single-Use Soul" Solarpunk Station, August 2023
The idea that souls occupy a human body for (generally) less than a hundred years and then spend eternity in a celestial plane sounds to me like an unbalanced, wasteful system. The single-use soul reminds me of a single-use plastic cup tossed into the landfill as soon as it’s emptied.
"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.
"Horror and Hope in Climate Fiction" Strange Horizons, January 2022
—Winner of the 2023 Utopia Award in Utopian Nonfiction!
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. ​
"What Do We Do When the World Doesn't End?" Strange Horizons, March 2020
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

Guest Blogs

"Eat Like An Author: Sarena Ulibarri" The Next Best Book Blog, May 2023

"My Favorite Bit: Sarena Ulibarri Talks About Another Life" Mary Robinette Kowal, May 2023

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

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/
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/