Last month I had the genuine pleasure of taking part in a small gathering to celebrate Analog and Asimov Magazines’ readers choice awards. It was super fun and inspiring to meet all the other authors…
On some very serious level, it’s just not solarpunk if it’s not about a community taking action to make the world a better place. Individualism: it’s just so wrong. It’s fair to say that, not…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…