Solarpunk Presents

Podcasts about creating the future we'd like to live in

Season 2

View through a library window, framing a bookshelf with a row of toy cars, each with eyes on the windshield to give a cartoony look. There is a shelf of books off to the left. The bottom right of the picture has white text that reads Libraries: A Community Endeavour with Don Gardner

Episode 2: Libraries: a Community Endeavour with Don Gardner

https://shows.acast.com/63d680c8ac7bb60011899189/episodes/63d6846f227fad0010c3a2a2

Is there anything more solarpunk than public libraries? Serving at the heart of communities, they’re a place where anyone regardless of income, ability, race, class, or gender can go to read books, listen to music, use the internet, learn things, hear story hour, get out of the weather for a while, and ask librarians for information on just about anything, including what organizations to turn to for additional support in your life or endeavor.

In Episode 2 of Season 2 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina talks to Don Gardner, a librarian for many years for the Salinas Public Libraries in Monterey County, California. Hear about how people rescued the library after the city council tried to close it down to save money, about what libraries can do for you and your community, and about what you can do for your local library.

Check out Salinas Public Libraries at https://salinaspubliclibrary.org/ and connect with them @salinaslibrary on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or @salinaspubliclibrary on Instagram and TikTok.

Episode 1: Urban Versus Rural Solarpunk

https://shows.acast.com/63d680c8ac7bb60011899189/episodes/63d680ccec5d220010e46c6b

Does solarpunk dream utopic dreams of clean, just, green cities that are great places to live in vibrant communities with other people? Or is solarpunk about getting back to the land, having your own chickens, being self-sufficient, and helping out your neighbors? City dweller Ariel, who dreams of life in the countryside, and countryside dweller Christina, who sees the advantages of city life, consider the pros and cons of trying to live urban versus rural solarpunk lives.

Here are links to some of the literature we discussed:

https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html

https://archive.org/details/boston-hearth-project-by-tjwatson/mode/2up?view=theater

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