In this episode, I sit down with Tim Weed — writer, teacher, and international trip leader turned novelist. Tim’s latest book, The Afterlife Project, is a cli-fi novel that travels 10,000 years into the future to wrestle with the fate of humanity, biodiversity, and our relationship to nature.

We talk about:

• Growing up between Vermont and Denver and discovering a love of winter and skiing

• How fly fishing — in various locations throughout the US, including my favorite, Kennebago Lake — became a lifelong practice

• Trip leading, group dynamics, and what time in the wilderness reveals about human connection

• Why geological time, mass extinctions, and perspective helped him write through climate anxiety

• The role of fiction in shifting climate paradigms and building new climate mythologies

Links

• Tim Weed’s Website

• The Afterlife Project

• A Field Guide to Murder and Fly Fishing

• The World Without Us – Alan Weisman

• Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Project Drawdown

Keywords: cli-fi, climate fiction, The Afterlife Project, Tim Weed, fly fishing, Vermont, Colorado, geological time, mass extinctions, stewardship, storytelling, literature, outdoor community, Protect Our Winters, climate narratives, nature, resilience