9.2 Solarpunk Presents: National Parks for All!
This week, we talk to Audrey Peterman, a Jamaican activist who played a key role in making a home for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) in the great outdoors in the United States.…
9.2 Solarpunk Presents: National Parks for All!
9.1: Eating for the Planet through Fork Ranger with Frank Holleman
On this episode from Season 9 of Solarpunk Presents we sit down with Frank Holleman from Fork Ranger because the fact is that the top 10% richest people on the planet are responsible for a…
7.8: Why Do These Cancelled Science Grants Matter?
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…
7.7: Ariel & Christina Discuss Living with a Disability as a Solarpunk
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…
7.6: Abundance, Inclusion, Resilience: The One Million Neighbours Project with Sam Nabi
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…
7.5: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Four Great Things We Take for Granted and Ought to Fight to Keep
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…
7.4: Enhancing the local values chain with community gardens feat. Doug Jones
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…
7.3: They Sent Us to Camp: My Family’s Experience of Internment During WWII, With Chie Furuya
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…
6.10: The Dilemma of Utopian Joy: Ariel & Christina Discuss
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…
6.9: There’s More to Explore: Diving Deeper Into Fully Automated! a Solarpunk RPG, With Andy Gross
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…