In this episode, Christina talks to Dr Gabriel Filippelli – one of the first scientists to have a running project canceled by the Trump administration. This fascinating interview reveals just how important internationally and domestically…
Today Christina talks to Ariel about what it’s been like to live as a solarpunk with a visible – and then invisible – disability. Science fiction has spent decades dreaming of how future tech will…
This episode, Ariel speaks to Sam Nabi about One Million Neighbours, a project bringing together the voices of local non-profits that envisions the future of Waterloo Region once the population has reached one million. Sam…
In these dark times of (American) political backsliding/the general rise of fascism in the Global North, Ariel and Christina consider four things that we’d made great progress on, to the point of taking those achievements…
In this episode, Ariel interviews Doug Jones from Waterloo Region Community Garden Network, and he discusses about how the Network was started, what it does, and the benefits of gardening for the health and wellbeing not…
If you meet a Japanese American, depending on their age, it’s a pretty good bet that they, their parents, and/or their grandparents (or great-grandparents) were imprisoned by the US government in so-called internment camps for…
While solarpunks often choose to stand in direct opposition to selfishness, greed, and systemic problems, the choice to be kind and to prioritize joy, sympathy, and understanding is also central to solarpunk in fiction and…
Due to personal issues, Christina couldn’t take part in the original interview with Andy Gross about the solarpunk role playing game Fully Automated! that made up S6E2. But she had questions. In this episode, she…
Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in…
Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nora Jacob on a better way to dispense justice than to subject offenders to a strictly brutal prison experience. A way that, by recognizing that hurt people hurt…