Solarpunk Futures

Apr 25 2024 20 ep. 149
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THE PRESENT

Our newly renamed podcast, Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia! launched its first episode on April 19, 2024.

Join host Justine Norton-Kertson (founder and co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine) and occasional guests for discussions of topics related to utopianism in general, and solarpunk in particular as both a genre of literature-art that imagines a utopian future and a social movement taking practical action and steps to build a better world right here in the present.

THE PAST

Solarpunk Futures is an optimistic, utopian science fiction podcast that imagines a new world where humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather in the conflict. The podcast is produced by Android Press and Solarpunk Magazine. Hosts read stories and poems that were published in the most recent issue of Solarpunk Magazine, and discuss nonfiction articles that are relevant to the solarpunk movement aimed at solving the climate crisis and creating a sustainable future. One episode of the Solarpunk Futures podcast is released every other Tuesday.

Beginning in fall 2022, Solarpunk Presents was launched as a companion podcast to Solarpunk Futures. Hosted by non-fiction coeditors Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha, Solarpunk Presents will feature interviews with activists, artists, organizers, and changemakers who are working towards realizing a solarpunk future, today. In January of 2023, Solarpunk Presents went off on its own as a separate podcast.
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The Anatomy of Utopia

Apr 25 2024 55 mins  
In this second episode of Solarpunk Magazine's newly relaunched podcast, Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia!, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks at different characteristics, ideas, and alternative systems that have been proposed as part of various utopian visions. And we'll think about how we can apply these lessons to the collective solarpunk world-building project Solarpunk Magazin

Utopian Visions Through Time

Apr 19 2024 61 mins  
Host Justine Norton-Kertson takes us on a tour of utopian visions through time from Plato to More, and from Indigenous cultures to today's post-utopian shift. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Solarpunk Futures: When We Hold Each Other Up

May 08 2023 28 mins  
Justine Norton-Kertson talks with author and editor Phoebe Wagner about past work, as well as their recently published solarpunk novella, When We Hold Each Other Up (2023, Android Press) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Solarpunk Presents Finale: Let's Talk Solstice, Solarpunks!

Dec 19 2022 43 mins  
In the finale of Solarpunk Presents' first-ever season, Ariel and Christina sit down to chat together about the Winter Solstice - Christina brings the scientific knowledge, Ariel brings a few book recommendations, and we discuss traditions of celebrating the return of the sun (as we've experienced them in the northern hemisphere). What are your favourite solstice traditions? Do you

How We Build Climate Resilience: An Interview with Dr. Lisa Dilling

Dec 12 2022 49 mins  
As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out h

Shining bright in the heart of oil country: interview with Heather MacKenzie from Solar Alberta

Nov 28 2022 39 mins  
In today’s episode, Ariel chats with Heather MacKenzie, Executive Director of Solar Alberta, about transitioning to renewable energy deep in the heart of oil and gas country - in a just and sustainable way. Join us to learn about the history of the Solar Alberta organization, from its grassroots beginnings in neighbourhood solar projects, to dealing with (government-funded!) trol

The Soft Glow of the Deep Sea: Talking Bioluminescence with Dr. Steve Haddock

Nov 14 2022 38 mins  
You don't have to be a solarpunk—or a lunarpunk—to dream of bioluminescence, from twinkling phytoplankton to glowing lamps, phosphorescent fungi, and jellyfish lit up like space ships. To honor those dreams, we talked to Dr. Steve Haddock, Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and leading expert on the things that glow, flash, and train h

Interview with Justine Norton-Kertson about BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY

Oct 31 2022 33 mins  
On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY. They discuss what lunarpunk is in contrast to solarpunk, what inspired Justine to put together an anthology of lunarpunk fiction, and a sneak peek at some of the participating authors and the content that fans can expect to encounter!Sign up for the BIOLUMI

Interview with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts about saving democracy through urban planning

Oct 24 2022 37 mins  
Solarpunk is all about vibrant, beautiful, livable cities filled with plants, public transportation, and solar panels—in other words, nothing like the congested, polluted, inhospitable messes we live in today. How do we start making the great transformation? Simply by starting. Join us for a conversation with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts about having a voice in the development (or redeve

Interview with Gabrielle Gelderman about Climate Grief Chaplaincy

Oct 10 2022 35 mins  
In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, nonfiction co-editor Ariel Kroon sits down for a virtual chat with Gabrielle Gelderman, an Edmonton, Alberta-based climate grief chaplain and climate justice organizer. They talk about what climate grief chaplaincy even is, the necessity of holding communal safe spaces for grieving especially for organizers, the necessity of feeling grief in o