Come Hear Me Read!
I’m not usually one to toot my own horn, but in a marked departure from my normal insular demeanor, here is an announcement: I’ll be doing a reading from some nonfiction I’ve written on August…
S5E9: Finding New Life in Old Tech, With Michael DeLuca
Join us for the final interview of this season, as we talk with Michael DeLuca, publisher of Reckoning, a yearly journal of creative writing on environmental justice, and author of The Jaguar Mask. Michael, impressed…
S5.8: Tech and the Global South with Star Ngei
In this episode, Christina talks with Star Ngei, a maker/hacker who helps raise awareness of Global South technology and innovation through the NGO Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), which hosts a network of makers and makerspaces…
Hope for the present, not the future
Reading the previous post on this blog by Christina, I can’t help but feel… a lot of déja vu, actually. I don’t mean to be blasé at all, because everything that Christina alludes to and…
S5E7: Building Dual Power, with André Rosario [aka HydroponicTrash]
André Rosario (aka HydroponicTrash) joins us this week on the podcast to tell Ariel all about dual power – what it is, how it fits in with solarpunk, and how people can mobilize it in…
Low Carbon Methods for Doing and Communicating Research With Dr Anne Pasek
This episode’s guest is Dr Anne Pasek, Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and Environment, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and the School of the Environment at Trent University. Dr…
Is This the Last Dance Before the Lights Go Out?
I hate to say it, because it’s not very solarpunk, but it feels a bit fin de siècle here right now. Like we’re in the last days of normality before we fall off the cliff.…
AI in Publishing Is Even Scarier Than I Thought
The other week, we had dinner with out neighbors, one of whom is some sort of managing editor at a big German publisher of newspapers and magazines. What he had to say about his industry’s…
Tech and the Power of Solarpunk Narratives with Paweł Ngei
In this episode, Christina talks with hacker and enthusiastic solarpunk Paweł Ngei about the power of solarpunk narratives to open our eyes to the ways in which we do things and invite us to critically…
Behind the Scenes with The Solarpunk Conference Organizers
In 2023, the inaugural Solarpunk Conference was held in virtual space, bringing together over 150 attendees, 18 presenters, and creating a palpable sense of the solarpunk community. This episode, Ariel chats with conference organizers Charles…