Leonardo DiCaprio Has Taken Option To Produce ''Cli-Fi'' Movie Set in 2049 (But Most Likely Will *NOT* Get Greenlighted)

UPDATE: WARNING: Leo's Appian Way studio is a serial purchaser of rights to promising Hollywood projects, not all of which see the light of day.

 

 

Leonardo DiCaprio buys option (but that's all, most of these PR announcements never come to fruittion, pure hype!) to Produce a YA Post-Apocalyptic Cli-fi movie Set in year 2049

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/02/leonardo-dicaprio-options-sandcaslt-empire-ya-post-apocalyptic-eco-disaster-novel


and


http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/02/02/leonardo-dicaprio-to-produce-post-apocalyptic-climate-change-film-set-in-2049 

Hollywood A-lister and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has bought the big-screen rights to a green-themed YA novel called The Sandcastle Empire, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

            

Kayla Olson’s as yet unpublished novel describes a post-apocalyptic 2049, in which climate change, coastal flooding and overpopulation have brought human civilisation to its knees. As womankind struggles for survival, a radical cabal known as the Wolfpack overthrows the authorities and takes power.
Set against the autocratic rulers is a young girl named Eden, who escapes from a Wolfpack labour camp and sets out on a journey of discovery which could furnish her with the tools to bring down the oppressors – as well as information about what happened to her missing father. At least one of these plot lines explicitly recalls the hit Hunger Games saga, which has taken close to $3bn at the global box office and helped make a huge star of the actor Jennifer Lawrence.
DiCaprio, the bookmaker’s favourite to win the best actor Oscar next month for his performance as a 19th-century trapper in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s harrowing western The Revenant, picked up the rights through his production company Appian Way, and will produce with his business partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran.

 

                            

Appian Way is a serial purchaser of rights to promising Hollywood projects, not all of which see the light of day. But DiCaprio’s passion for green themes suggests The Sandcastle Empire might be a priority. There is no indication about whether the actor will take a role in front of the cameras, but with his current sky-high status in Hollywood, there would be no faster way of securing studio funding for the project, at a time when young adult dystopian fare has begun to struggle at the box office. The Chloë Grace Moretz-led sci-fi film The Fifth Wave is the latest such offering to fail to live up to expectations, having taken just $20m in two weeks of release at the US box office – though it is doing better outside North America.
The Sandcastle Empire would by no means be DiCaprio’s first foray into environmental-themed film-making. In March, the actor, who has addressed the UN Climate Change summit and donated millions of dollars to help protect endangered species through the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, signed a multi-year agreement to make nature documentaries for Netflix.
The publication status of Olson’s novel remains unclear. It is not available on Amazon and the author’s website does not list any published works

An illustrated children's picture book about co2 emisssions which are killing the planet

''PLEASE
DON'T
PAINT
THE PLANET 
PINK!"

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an illustrated children's picture book about co2 emisssions which are killing the planet

by Gregg Kleiner in Oregon

A RADIO INTERVIEW HERE on NPR radio network in OREGON

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It might be okay to paint the town red, but we probably don't want to paint the planet pink.

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Not that it's truly possible, but such a thing is imagined in a children's book about climate change.
The author imagines a world in which carbon dioxide is visible... and pink.
Now you get the idea. 
Author Gregg Kleiner takes us into the process that led to Don't Paint the World Pink. 

THIS STORY HAS LEGS! -- The Florida newsman who coined the "atomic typo" term in 2002 is now an imam in South Florida

C.B. Hanif is the man, a former editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post. He retired from newspapering and is now as a Muslim [who converted from his Methodist background as an African-American growing up in Baltimore]  serving as part of the
 chaplaincy unit with an interfaith staff of 25 holy men and women.

He is also the Florida newspaper editor who in 2002 coined the term "atomic typos" for typos that spellcheck cannot see on computer platforms. See the Atomic Typo website here.

atomictypo.blogspot.com

The imam is meant to help deputies understand the culture and to provide spiritual assistance to the county's 10,000 or so Muslims when needed. He also will provide spiritual comfort to non-Muslims.


Hanif, 64 and a married father of 5, is no stranger to the Florida county. For 22 years, he worked as a news ombudsman and editorial writer for The Palm Beach Post. He left the Post in 2008 to become a freelance writer and an Imam.

Hanif, a member of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association, grew up in Baltimore as a Christian [Methodist] but said he felt drawn to Islam in the 1970s, following devotees such as celebrity boxer Muhammad Ali.

"I was attracted to the humanitarian aspects," he said, "the self respect and the concepts of cleaning ourselves up as a people. As human beings, we are all one."

By the late 1980s he was recognized by peers and in the Muslim community as an imam. Unlike priests and rabbis, imams do not have to be ordained.

"I don't promote myself as an imam as I do as a Muslim and a person of faith who shares spiritual faith with other people," Hanif said.

That's what led him to the Sheriff's Office, where chaplains respond to emergency situations to comfort victims and deputies who need someone to talk to.

 

 

Liberal Vanderbilt professor responds to conservative higher education website that critiqued his teaching so-called ''cli-fi'' classes this semester

 

Vanderbilt prof responds to convervative higher education website that critiqued him for teaching ''cli-fi'' classes this sprring semester of 2016

by staff writer, with agencies

NASHVILLE -- When a conservative  website THE COLLEGE FIX covering higher education in the USA critiqued a progressive initiative at UC-Irvine as well as a law professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Al Gore's hometown) for teaching classes on cli-fi, the brouhaha went viral and national via twitter tweets and Facebook updates. Climate denialists and climate activists on both sides of the issue chimed in on Twitter, and Professor Edward Rubin wrote a response that The College Fix generously updated and put on its website, underneath the original article by Dave Huber.

Margaret Atwood tweeted the College Fix link and Rubin's letter to the website on her Twitter feed that goes out to 1 million followers.

UPDATE: Vanderbilt’s Ed Rubin responds.

This story has legs.

The COLLEGE FIX attack was headlined ‘'Cli-fi’ and the incorporation of climate change/global warming into college curriculum at Irvine and, Vanderbilt''


https://t.co/x9vdmqqS9V

@collegefix

http://northwardho.blogspot.tw/2016/01/professor-edward-l-rubin-responds-to.html



 DAVE HUBER WROTE:

It is not mandatory –yet — but the University of California-Irvine is offering faculty up to $1,200 in “incentives” to attend a workshop (and follow-up) on how to incorporate “climate change and/or sustainability concepts into their courses.”

“The overall goal of this curriculum program,” the UCI Sustainability website says, “is to boost climate change/sustainability education at UCI, especially targeting those students for whom climate and sustainability may not be a focus.”

BUT:
http://northwardho.blogspot.tw/2016/01/professor-edward-l-rubin-responds-to.html


The College Fix received a tip from a source at UC-Irvine which offered suggestions on how to do just that, in this case for an English-related course.
The ideas included making use of “appropriate” vocabulary and readings since, after all, the goal of the program is to make sure all students on campus are reached.

Naturally, the College Fix  was left wondering: Would it be acceptable to utilize vocabulary and readings (and writing assignments) that are skeptical of the conventional climate wisdom? Skeptical of current methods of sustainability?
This comes at a time when the genre of climate fiction, or “cli-fi,” is becoming rather popular in pedagogy, despite it having been around for decades.
Blogger Daniel Bloom reports on a Vanderbilt professor who’s teaching two courses on cli-fi this coming spring semester.
Edward Rubin teaches law and political science at Vandy, and is offering a freshman course titled “Visions of the Future in Cli-Fi,” as well as one for the school’s lifelong learning program called “Climate Change Literature: A New Fictional Genre about a Real Problem.”
The latter has a more detailed description available:

In recent years a new genre of modern novels has emerged — climate change fiction, or “cli-fi.” It now includes dozens, maybe hundreds of books, some in the science fiction mode, others realistic works set in contemporary times, but with a climate change theme. These books are often entertaining in themselves, but also reflect our society’s effort to come to terms with an impending crisis. We’ll approach these books as literature, but we’ll also talk about the underlying issue of climate change, and what the novels say about it.

  

'Cli-Fi' provides a window into our future -- and ourselves (post by Rachel Michelson)

Rob Moore’s Blog on Cli-Fi event

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rmoore/climate_fiction_provides_a_win.html

Cli-Fi provides a window into our future -- and ourselves 

by Rachel Mickelson

A good story will do that -- will make another world so tangible one can see oneself vividly inside it, eliciting empathy for who we might become and how we might respond when provided a similar landscape. When confronted with increasingly extreme weather, rising sea levels, and record-breaking droughts, a compelling narrative might be one of our keys to unlocking a safer future. Enter Climate Fiction, or "Cli-Fi," a burgeoning literary genre that grapples with the impacts of climate change and envisions a world that could become all too real.

Cli-Fi novels such as Claire Vaye Watkins' Gold Fame Citrus, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife, and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy have earned wide critical acclaim over the past few years. Secondary schools and universities across the country have also begun to incorporate Climate Fiction courses into their syllabi, providing an accessible platform.

 

    

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''sarah gilmartin'' (lowercase in scare quotes) on ''The World Without Us'' - a ''cli-fi'' by Mireille Juchau

''The World Without Us'' by Mireille Juchau

a review: ''Mother/Father Earth'' [capital E please, sarah gilmartin!] calls it a day

An Australian writer’s cli-fi take on climate change and emotional loss   

Sarah Gilmartin writes from Ireland where her editors refuse to CAPITALIZE the word EARTH!~

Jan 30, 2066

 

   

 

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We live in a time where epic changes are happening to the world’s climate. The consequences of industry emissions are becoming more apparent every year as man-made global warming increases, sea levels rise and the chances of future ecosystems adapting naturally continue to diminish.These big-picture themes form part of the backdrop of this cli-fi novel by Jewish-Australian novelist Mireille Juchau. Her novel (the first to be published in the UK and Ireland) tells a gripping cli-fi story of climate change as seen through the eyes of a fictional community in a verdant haven of sustainable living on the north coast of New South Wales. Griplit or Cli-fi? You decide.

 

The World Without Us invites comparison to other cli-fi novels with similar frameworks such as Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. In these novels, global crises are made clear through domestic detail. That the way we live our lives affects others, at close range and on a grander scale, is at the heart of such novels where individuals, relationships and ecologies are breaking down.

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If the Romantic poets turned to the natural world for solace, Juchau’s novel asks where modern society can turn when our environments are damaged – and we have been complicit in their destruction. Choosing to insert quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck’s The Life of the Bee throughout underpins the author’s themes.

 

The Belgian Nobel Prize winner’s intricate study of apiculture is as much about the human condition as it is about bees. The same can be said of The World Without Us. The weather inside the minds of Juchau’s characters is as important as the huge changes going on around them.

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The World Without Us considers several betrayals outlined in the novel as one death threatens to herald a family’s apocalypse. Juchau explores the way characters help each other claw back their lives. The world emerges as a vast and bracing place, one that goes on – with or without us.

5 top ''Cli-Fi'' movies that Spencer Reid likes (from his blog post)

guest blog from Spencer Reid re cli-fi movies :
5 top ''Cli-Fi'' movies that Spencer Reid likes (from his blog post)
https://t.co/k8TphJOXrD

guest blog from Spencer Reid re cli-fi movies :