We’re looking to share the most exciting, rigorous and challenging ideas to help sustain a positive looking-forward in the urgent need to mitigate and control climate change. Climate change is happening and for many it’s palpable and already destructive. Quite how this has been called into question by those with the darkest of motives is a never-ending puzzle – but how can we address this with innovation, energy, culture, and positivity?

On a day like today we just need to look forward is our newest art.earth publication, due out towards the end of this year. Ten years ago our international symposium Feeding the Insatiable attempted to look beyond the froth and the noise and draw inspiration from artists, philosophers, engineers, scientists, community leaders, tinkerers, activists and other energised voices to taste some of the most interesting ideas around energy and creativity. In this publication we seek a similar marriage of practical and speculative thought, collisions of the known and the felt and the putative. We are less interested in definitive ‘solutions’ and more interested in narrative, seekings-out, experiment and exploration, and how we nurture dialogue around these most challenging and urgent questions.

This is an open call for contributions. If you are engaged intellectually, creatively, practically or theoretically in energy and society, we want to hear from you. ‘Energy’ in this context embraces a host of ideas including climate change, climate justice, climate remediation, climate politics; ‘society’ embraces everything to do with how we live, how we consume and source energy, and how communities or individuals can be empowered in their relationship to what has always been a monolithic industry. Impacts go well beyond the human, of course: we want to hear from the living planet not just from the species that dominates it.

The deadline for proposals is May 9.