A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with Dr. Amitav Ghosh on stage with Ms. Sunita Narain

A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on stage with Indian journalist Sunita Narain

peelibilli (@peelibilli) tweeted at 8:58 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
@sunitanar @ipshita77 @GhoshAmitav @PenguinIndia Will you make this available online for those who missed it? [ASKS THE ABOVE TWEET. HERE IS PART OF IT.]
(https://twitter.com/peelibilli/status/755567610901721089?s=03)

It is apparent that Dr Ghosh has one message for audiences inside India, especially in regard to how he feels modern novelists in India are NOT writing about climate change themes even when climate change impacts event are right outside their doors and he asks why and chastises them gently for being lazy apethetic writers ... while his message (for the same book of essays) when he goes to America in September for the USA launch there will be to congratulate Western novelists like Nathaniel Rich and Kim Stanley Robinson and Barbara Kingsolver and Meg Little Reilly and Sarah Holding and Paolo Bacigalpi and hundreds more in the UK and Australia as well for tackling climate change themes in their current novels. So Dr Ghosh is speaking to two audiences: one in India and one in the West. He has to tailor his remarks for each author in a sensitive way. This twitter event below was in India so he still says there are no climate theme novels in the literary world, when in fact, he knows full well by now that the cli-fi genre has taken the US and the UK and Australia by storm. But he cannot say that inside India for some reason. Read on:


Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:30 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
A few minutes from now, Ms. @Sunitanar will be in conversation with Mr. @GhoshAmitav about his new book of essays on climate. Live updates #TGDlaunch

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A tweet by tweet summary of the live-tweet event hashtagged #TGDLaunch in India on July 19 with novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh on stage with Indian journalist Sunita Narain

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CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:48 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
All set for #tgdlaunch with @GhoshAmitav and Sunita Narain #climatechange #books https://t.co/ZAchmKkCMX

CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 9:53 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@sunitanar and @GhoshAmitav arrive now for the book launch event #tgdlaunch @down2earthindia https://t.co/s643iq2flK

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 9:58 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
How is it that literature is not talking about #climate change?  asks @GhoshAmitav  at the launch of The Great Derangement. #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755401540421160960?s=03)

CSEINDIA (@CSEINDIA) tweeted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Today we are powerless because we are not asking our leaders to take action says @sunitanar @GhoshAmitav #tgdlaunch https://t.co/jgRDukG9MG
(https://twitter.com/CSEINDIA/status/755401928494948352?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:02 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Dealing with climate issues is considered fringe activity, @GhoshAmitav tells @sunitanar at #TGDLaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755402561197191168?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:04 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
There's complete silence in imaginative discourse when it comes to #climatechange issues, says author @GhoshAmitav #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755402968334204928?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:10 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Systematically, we have turned away from imagining #climatechange impacts, says Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Sunita Narain #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755404533644361728?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:11 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
When the cyclone comes for you, it is not going to pick between rich and poor - @GhoshAmitav at #TGDLaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755404797834997760?s=03

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:15 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We are beginning to close the circles of conversations when it comes to #climatechange, says  @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755405714315706368?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:17 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
The systematic silencing of non-partisan voices on #climatechange is a reality, says @GhoshAmitav in conversation with @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755406302587871232?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:20 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
People don't realise how much does Paris Climate talks move away from climate justice issue, says @GhoshAmitav  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755407038088355842?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:31 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
We have universalised a model of lifestyle that cannot work for the majority in the face of #climatechange, says @GhoshAmitav  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755409656428785664?s=03)

दि लास्ट पफ् (@DesiUvach) tweeted at 10:33 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Elites weren't worried when that lifestyle was restricted to few. Now that all demand it, elites sermonize us @GhoshAmitav
(https://twitter.com/DesiUvach/status/755410270877470724?s=03)

Dan Bloom (@do_you_cli_fi_) tweeted at 10:39 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
@down2earthindia Dr Ghosh is wrong here. Maybe in his native India but in the West there is a vibrant ''cli-fi'' genre https://t.co/tntilwQ4Pl
(https://twitter.com/do_you_cli_fi_/status/755411714946965504?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:42 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
#climatechange has started making its way into political discourse of India, says @sunitanar #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755412461369561088?s=03)

Down To Earth (@down2earthindia) tweeted at 10:59 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Scientists have to work with society and explain extreme weather events to sensitise people about #climatechange says @sunitanar  #TGDlaunch
(https://twitter.com/down2earthindia/status/755416797118169088?s=03)

Jon Queen (@jonmckeequeen) tweeted at 11:46 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Climate Change Is This Generation's Biggest Threat: Amitav Ghosh - The Quint: The QuintClimate Change Is This... https://t.co/rcbIvPhqDo
(https://twitter.com/jonmckeequeen/status/755428590989119488?s=03)

Penguin Books India (@PenguinIndia) tweeted at 10:18 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
If the Americans are saying they are controlling climate change, I live on a different planet.
~SN [SAYS Sunita Narain ] WTF? [Do I detect an anti-America prejudice/hatred there?]
#TheGreatDerangement
(https://twitter.com/PenguinIndia/status/755406581374779392?s=03)

Vaishali Mathur (@mathur_vaishali) tweeted at 10:16 PM on Tue, Jul 19, 2016:
Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narain talk about the greatest derangement stares us in the face #environment @PenguinIndia https://t.co/NdQlVJZGd8
(https://twitter.com/mathur_vaishali/status/755405929349259264?s=03)


Sanjay Sipahimalani (@SanSip) tweeted at 1:09 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
In #TheGreatDerangement, @GhoshAmitav mentions two novels that deal with climate change: McEwan's ''Solar'' from UK and B Kingsolver's ''Flight Behaviour'' from USA
(https://twitter.com/SanSip/status/755449606092316672?s=03)

Ipshita Mitra (@ipshita77) tweeted at 2:36 AM on Wed, Jul 20, 2016:
Literature is moving away from nature. @GhoshAmitav on climate change and justice with @sunitanar @PenguinIndia https://t.co/5NZtY2x45o
(https://twitter.com/ipshita77/status/755471280162340864?s=03)

Devi Lockwood says she is cycling across the Southern Hemisphere to try to collect 1001 climate-change stories

A former student of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard, Lockwood has pledged to try to collect 1001 stories about water, wildlife and weather.

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January 18, 2016 | UPDATED 18:35 IST

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Picture courtesy: Facebook/ Devi Lockwood

When Devi Lockwood set off on a journey to collect 1,001 climate-change stories through a variety of terrains across the Southern Hemisphere back in 2014, she wouldn't have thought that over a year and several miles later, she would be just 450 stories short of achieving her target.

A former student of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, Lockwood started her journey on September 21, 2014. With her bicycle, an audio recorder and occasional boat rides as  faithful companions, the 23-year-old American has reportedly travelled across Fiji, Tuvalu, Australia and New Zealand--asking the locals to share personal stories about their trysts with the phenomenon of climate change.

In a conversation with Mashable Australia, Lockwood said that she drew inspiration from Arabian Nights and chose the figure of 1,001 as it was nothing short of "magical" for her. The travelling bug first bit Lockwood when while working on her senior thesis, she decided to take a bike trip to the Mississippi River, but not without collecting stories and writing poems drawn from the people she came across along the way
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Carrying simple playcards that read out, "Tell me a story about climate change," Lockwood came across several people who were more than willing to share stories about water, wildlife, weather and themselves.

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Sharing one such story about a woman from Queensland, Lockwood told Mashable that the lady told her about how crocodiles are found farther south now--farther south than they've ever been before. "She's part of a team who will capture and release them," she elaborated. "Her conjecture was that because of climate change, wildlife is moving to different parts of the country."

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But why cycling?
Lockwood decided to give up on the concept of taking flights--so as to do her bit in reducing her carbon footprint. But that wasn't the only reason that made her take up cycling. During the course of her bike trip to the Mississippi River, she learnt to appreciate the beauty and peace nature has in store for us. The bike trip also made her realise how every locality and its citizens had different perceptions and stories about climate change.
With an aim to complete a count of 1,001 stories, Lockwood plans to set up an interactive website that comes with a map of the places she's travelled to, alongside an audio-recorded story pertaining to the area clicked on.

Taiwanese artist studying book design and illustration at the School of Visual Art in New York

Harry Lang with Mago Huang in 2012 in Los Angeles,
illustrator of Lang's book “My Name is Angela”

 

Taiwanese artist, 23, studying book design and illustration at the School of Visual Art in New York

by Dan Bloom

TAIPEI -- In 2012, Mago Huang

​(黃中妤) ​

was

 

honored with an award as one of the 12 illustrator winners of ​a Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest

in Los Angeles.  A native of Taiwan, Ms Huang now lives in the USA, and this blogger recently found some time to interview her and she graciously

answered some of our questions by email.

When asked about the 2012 award contest, Ms Huang, now 23,  told us that each selected illustrator was paired up with a selected writer.

"The contest judges selected 12 artists and 12 writers to go on to the second round of the contest. The writer I was paired up wuth was Harry Lang. He wrote a short story was selected for the contest, the judges felt that my style of art suited his story so they asked me to do an illustration for this," she said.

Here is Mago with writer Harry Lang in Los Angeles in 2012:

 

Harry Lang with Mago Huang,
illustrator of Lang's book “My Name is Angela”

Ms. Huang started to learn to draw during

her elementary

school years

​ in Taiwan​

, and won competitions while attending Wu-Chuan Junior High School in Taichung

​. When we asked if her art teachers in Taichung were important to her and the development of her talents, she said yes, explaining:

"I was enrolled in an art program in junior high school. The experience definitley influenced my art. We had to take four kinds of art courses in junior high -- water color painting, drawing, calligraphy, and traditional ink painting. Although I don't think all the classes met my interests, I still do appreciate the experience of learning art skills in Taiwan. I learned a lot through my classmates and teachers. It's also very helpful to know people who are also in athe rt field, and I remained friends with my classmates after the school program. Some of my classmates went into industrial design, some became photographers, and others became popular on social media."

After emigrating to the United States

​ to attend high school there, you

won an Honorable Achievement award in the 5th annual Safeway-Lucerne art competition "The Art of Dairy," which involved drawing a cow using various designs. How did your parents react to your winning the award

?​

"

After winning several competitions, my parents finally realized I was very serious about my wanting to pursue a career in art," Ms Huang said. "So they became very supportive, taking me to art courses and paying tuition for art school."

Mago once said that her

​

dream was to illustrate children's books and art magazines.

​We asked her if that was still her dream now,​

"Yes,  illustrating childrens' book is still my top choice," she said. "However, after enrolling in art program, and having the experience of being published,  I now feel that I would prefer writing my own story, and also doing the illustration myself. This way I will have more freedom regarding the whole package, the design and the plot."

In the summer of 2015, Mago did illustrations for a children's book published in Taiwan.

 

 

Here is a link:

http://m.sanmin.com.tw/Product/Index/005196472

 

ISBN： 957146024 作者： 李寬宏 著；黃中妤 繪 著 出版社/廠商： 三民書局 內頁p13 內頁p14 內頁p15 內頁p16 內頁p17 內頁p18 內頁p19 內頁p20 內頁p21 內頁p22

 

Mago once said that "If everyone spends a little time looking at a piece of art, they too can imagine a magical world." I loved that idea, and I asked her to tell me more about it.

"I always think art is a living thing," she said. " It grows with you. For example, if you buy an abstract painting for your house,  at first, it's just a pretty image. But as time goes by, you will become more attached to the painting, and eventually it becomes a small world for you (or a special scenery) you are attached to emotionally) . You could start to imagine it's a painting of clouds or mist in the autumn. It could be the places you want to go, it could be your favorite season, it could be memories of childhood. Things like that. I could be so many things, and what I mean is, if one spends enough time, a painting could be anything you want it to be. It all depends on who you are, the things you have experienced as a human being,  and everyone can appreciate and see the things they love about each painting."

   

 

When we asked if Mago planned to stay in the USA or return some day to Taiwan to work later on, she said she is still thinking about her future plans and has not decided yet.

 

For now,

she is happy studying and living in America.

Her future looks promising.

"I'm enrolled in the School of Visual Art in New York,'' she said. "I am studying in the 'illustration as visual essay' program. We have to wrote our own story and illustrate it. It's the kind of program I always wanted to do."

"In  addition to writing and illustrating children's books, I'm also very interested in pattern making and package design," she added.

 

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Mago's Website:

www.magosart.com

 

Her Instagram ID is:
mago209m

 

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY star DAKOTA JOHNSON's "cli-fi" movie CHLOE AND THEO to hit theaters in September

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From buzzword to buzzaword: a new word has been coined!

 

 

BUZZAWORD:

DEFINITION: similar to a ''buzzword'' but with more impact, more heft, more ''je ne sais quoi''...

BUZZWORD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzword

BUZZAWORD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzaword

A buzzaword is a word or phrase that becomes very popular in the media and often originate in neologisms such as cli-fi.  Buzzawords are buzzwords that help people "think outside the box."

At the Sushi Express restaurant on Saturday afternoon with Lali who took pic with her cellphone

 

我問他為什麼不回美國 他說很多ㄅㄧㄤˋㄅㄧㄤˋㄅㄧㄤˋ他會害怕😂😂😂 10 ♡ 2 ✍Aug 01

 

At the Sushi Express restaurant on Saturday afternoon with Lali who took pic with her cellphone...

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