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Demand Utopia Podcast: Housing is Solarpunk’s Genre Test

SEASON 6, EPISODE 2with host Justine Norton-KertsonClick here to listen to this episode Picture the familiar solarpunk neighborhood: lush apartment buildings, green roofs, shaded walkways, light rail gliding past community gardens, a place designed to feel human again. It looks clean, shared, sustainable, and alive. But can anyone actually afford to live there? Who gotContinue reading “Demand Utopia Podcast: Housing is Solarpunk’s Genre Test”

Demand Utopia Podcast: Has Solarpunk Become Too Aesthetic?

SEASON 6, EPISODE 1with host Justine Norton-KertsonClick here to listen to this episode When people hear the word solarpunk, many of them see the same thing: green rooftops, soft light, walkable cities, vertical gardens and glass towers wrapped in vines, bikes gliding past terraces, community farms tucked between apartment blocks, sunlight warming glass instead ofContinue reading “Demand Utopia Podcast: Has Solarpunk Become Too Aesthetic?”

World Environment Day: Grow the Future With Us!

It’s World Environment Day, a day that encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. One small way you can do that is by supporting Solarpunk Magazine, helping us grow and bring more radically hopefully climate fiction into the world! Our first ever Patreon subscription drive runs through Summer Solstice (June 20). OurContinue reading “World Environment Day: Grow the Future With Us!”

Imagining Freedom of Movement in a Solarpunk Future

On the latest episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about the history and purpose of borders, then does a thought experiment imagining what a solarpunk future without borders—with freedom of movement—might look like. The transcript from that episode is below.

DEI, Education, & a Solarpunk Future

Authoritarian regimes always make moves early on to control education, and it only took two months from inauguration day for Trump to issue an executive order calling for The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to be gutted. The department has only existed since the 1970s, so it’s possible to make a convincing case, on theContinue reading “DEI, Education, & a Solarpunk Future”

Solarpunk Magazine Issue #20 and Latest Podcast Episode

Issue #20 is now available. If you’re not a subscriber to Solarpunk Magazine, then you can click here to get a copy of Issue #20 featuring: cover art by Flairiarteditorial and interior art by our co-editor-in-chief, Brianna Castagnozzi short stories“What We Used to Be” by Hannah Greer“Atha’s Daughters” by Len Klapdorpoems poems“Incantation for the Planthroposcene”Continue reading “Solarpunk Magazine Issue #20 and Latest Podcast Episode”

New Podcast Episode: Solarpunk vs. Imperialism Pt. 2

This week on Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, part 2 of our episode on Trump’s big imperialist push is now available to listen to right from our website, or on whatever podcast platform you use. In this episode we explore the solarpunk response to imperialism and look at real life examples of the struggle toContinue reading “New Podcast Episode: Solarpunk vs. Imperialism Pt. 2”

New Demand Utopia Podcast Episodes!

We’ve relaunched our podcast with the first episode in since April 2024, and after a few days of early access for our Patreon subscribers, the first new episode, “Moving Forward,” is now available for the general public. In this first new episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson surveys the current politicalContinue reading “New Demand Utopia Podcast Episodes!”