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Guest Post: Q & A with “Our Waters, Our Future” Fiction Contest Winner

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Note: this post is from our friends over at the “Yahara in situ” blog: Meet Sally Younger. She won our first ever Our Waters, Our Future writing contest, which sought short, sci-fi stories about positive futures for water and people in south-central Wisconsin. Younger’s first-place story, “Antigone Lupulus,” will make its debut in Madison Magazine’s …

Scenarios: Using Science Fiction to Think About the Future

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by Jenny Seifert Change is constant and inevitable—in jobs, in relationships, in business, and in nature. It can make us feel downright powerless to realize that nothing is certain. So why even bother trying to plan ahead? Well, when it comes to thinking about how people might cope with big changes that will affect us …