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A Brief History of Cli-fi: Fiction That’s Hooking Readers on Climate Activism

By Theodora Sutcliffe — 2020

t’s a truism that fiction teaches us about the world we live in: norms and cultures, values and beliefs, the complex interplay of external events and personal relationships that keeps us reading (or watching) until the end. Now, an emerging genre of writing known as climate fiction, or cli-fi, is teaching us about the world as we need to see it: a planet in the grip of a climate crisis that will shape our lives for as long as we inhabit Earth.

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Disabled People Don’t Need So Many Fancy New Gadgets. We Just Need More Ramps.

Technology isn’t always the answer.

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Fostering Creativity: 12 Tips for Boosting Your Creative Skills

Creativity has been valued throughout human history. It has also been called “the skill of the future” (Powers, 2018).

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Creativity

Contrary to earlier theories that creative people emerged from conflicted families, Csikszentmihalyi’s findings, published as Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996), showed that these individuals had, for the most part, experienced normal childhoods and grown up in...

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The Art of Creativity

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams of reality.

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Here’s How Imagination Works

Our imagination allows us to do more than just daydream. It sparks new ideas and helps us visualize ourselves achieving that next great goal in life.

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