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Speaking with the #SolarpunkPresents Podcast

May 20, 2025

"The latest episode of Solarpunk Presents features a conversation with #SamNabi, our project coordinator, about #OneMillionNeighbours. It’s a meandering and hopeful discussion about building relationships that translate to community power, seeing the intersections between different topics, and how the One Million Neighbours report came together."

https://onemillionneighbours.ca/2025/05/20/speaking-with-the-solarpunk-presents-podcast/

#SolarPunk #WaterlooOntario #Ontario #SolarPunkSunday #CommunitySpaces #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResiliency
#TheFutureIsNow #Earth4All #SolarPunkPresentsPodcast #OneMillionNeighborsWaterloo

Really enjoying the Carbon Neutral Strike updates from Aleya; she has some really great insights and it is very cool to listen to her wonder about how things work and then later find out.

If we were to do another podcast with her, what subjects (from what she has talked about so far) would you most be interested in? Reply to this thread or DM us.

#solarpunk #SolarPunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #podcastTopic #CarbonNeutralStrike #gamifying #coding #gamecreation #music #Jamaica

Hey all, have you been keeping up with Aleya's Carbon Neutral Strike updates the last few days? Not only are they chock full of interesting details about what it is like to live a fossil-fuel-free life in Jamaica, but Aleya also ruminates on ecological transformation, green energy, billionaires, mosquitoes, and much much more.

https://shows.acast.com/solarpunk-presents/episodes/carbon-neutral-strike-update-1-days-1-10

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Jamaica #AleyaJobson #fastfrwrd.info #mosquitoes #CarbonNeutralStrike #Mosquitoes

Hey all, Aleya's published her first episode!! It's the audio blog of days 1-10 of her Carbon Neutral Strike - check it out at the link below:

https://shows.acast.com/solarpunk-presents/episodes/carbon-neutral-strike-update-1-days-1-10

#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Solarpunk #Podcast #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPodcast #Episode #AleyaJobson #CNS #CarbonNeutralStrike #Music #Musician #Jamaica #Kingston #plasticpollution #foodwaste

ICYMI, we dropped our newest episode yesterday: Fastfrwrd to the Solarpunk Future - an Introduction to Aleya Jobson.

We’re back! (Kind of…) In this episode, Ariel interviews Aleya Jobson about gamifying climate action with the Fastfrwrd website, where people can be rewarded for positive climate actions in their own lives. They also discuss Aleya’s Carbon Neutral Strike: how Aleya started it, how it’s going, and its pros and cons. Starting next week, Aleya will be taking over the feed with reflections on her Carbon Neutral living; Christina and Ariel are still s t r u g g l i n g but Aleya is willing and able to keep the solarpunk content going in the meantime. Tune in - you won’t want to miss this.

https://shows.acast.com/solarpunk-presents/episodes/83-fastfrwrd-to-the-solarpunk-future

#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #solarpunk #solarpunkPodcast #Podcast #episode #SeasonEight #Fastfrwrd #Jamaica #ClimateStrike #CarbonNeutralStrike #CarbonNegativeStrike #Gamification

Hey friends, just a reminder that we’re on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEdVsigLYIx9f2aTUu6scw?sub_confirmation=1

You can listen to our episodes in video form, if you prefer to stream your podcasts on that platform. We also vlog and make shorts sporadically about our daily lives in Canada and Germany as solarpunks, paying attention to the details that we think solarpunks of different stripes might find interesting.

#YouTube #solarpunk #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #video #LikeAndSubscribe #vlog #shorts #YouTubeShorts #podcasting #VideoBlog

Hey friends, just a reminder that we’re on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEdVsigLYIx9f2aTUu6scw?sub_confirmation=1

You can listen to our episodes in video form, if you prefer to stream your podcasts on that platform. We also vlog and make shorts sporadically about our daily lives in Canada and Germany as solarpunks, paying attention to the details that we think solarpunks of different stripes might find interesting.

#YouTube #solarpunk #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #video #LikeAndSubscribe #vlog #shorts #YouTubeShorts #podcasting #VideoBlog

Hey friends, just a reminder that we’re on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEdVsigLYIx9f2aTUu6scw?sub_confirmation=1

You can listen to our episodes in video form, if you prefer to stream your podcasts on that platform. We also vlog and make shorts sporadically about our daily lives in Canada and Germany as solarpunks, paying attention to the details that we think solarpunks of different stripes might find interesting.

#YouTube #solarpunk #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #video #LikeAndSubscribe #vlog #shorts #YouTubeShorts #podcasting #VideoBlog

6.6: Emotional Literacy with Dr Tiffany Millacci

In this week’s episode, Ariel quizzes guest Dr Tiffany Millacci about emotional literacy. What is this relatively new phrase? How can being emotionally literate help us to navigate difficult conversations, awkward interactions, or even generally just having relationships in the first place? Isn’t all this talk of emotions just a different way for the self-help industry to get us to buy stuff?

Join us for a fascinating conversation about a complex topic - we barely skim the surface! But never fear, Dr Millacci has your back; listen in for some good places to start learning more.

Check out our blog for links!

Disclaimer: We’re coming from a white, western viewpoint and we recognize the limitations and strictures of that - even within the same cultures and societies (heck, within the same families) emotional expression can vary wildly according to personality, gender, neurodivergence, whatever your social location. This interview necessarily takes broad strokes to begin a conversation about how to better be in community with each other, and it is our hope that we can continue to showcase how this can vary, taking steps towards a solarpunk future where people can disagree - even on important topics like politics and religion - without violence or relationship rupture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzD821HHgj8

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Podcast #episode #SeasonSix #EmotionalLiteracy #EmotionalIntelligence #Community #CommunityBuilding #emotion #emotions #affect #AffectTheory #arguments #relationships #HowToBeInRelationship #psychology #agreements #disagreements #YouTube #video #interview

6.5: Teaching Hopepunk Fiction with Dr Tanis MacDonald

On this episode of the podcast, Ariel chats with Dr Tanis MacDonald about her upcoming course in winter 2025 on hopepunk. What exactly is so punk about this kind of hope? Can hopepunk even be said to be a genre in its own right, or is it an aesthetic or lens that we can use to think through just why the characters are deciding to have hope in bleak situations?

Tune in for recommendations of hopepunk novels (and poetry!), ruminations on political hope, the centrality of relationships and radical empathy to these stories, and more. Plus some academic theories informing the formulations of hope, of course.

https://youtu.be/CTLwP3K5je8

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #podcasting #hopepunk #literature #hopeful #hope #hopeful books,teaching hopepunk #affectheory #emotions #hopefulLiterature #hopefulResistance #Anthropocene #radicalEmpathy #choosingCare #politicalHope #chooseHope #YA #Science Fiction #episode #SeasonSix

Episode 5.3: Solarpunk, Lunarpunk, Crypto, & Web3 with Stephen Reid

Disclaimer: Neither Christina, Ariel, nor the Solarpunk Presents podcast agree with nor support the use of cryptocurrencies or web3. For sound critiques (as well as explanations) of these technologies, check out the videos Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs from @FoldingIdeas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g) and Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia from @Munecat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0) as well as the website https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/.

In Season 5 Episode 3 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina chats with transdisciplinary technologist Stephen Reid about the relationship that solarpunk and lunarpunk have to crypto and web3. If lunarpunk is what solarpunk gets up to in the shadows of a moonlit night, that suggests that lunarpunk is inherently more interested in privacy, security, and anonymity, especially from the watchful eye of the state. Further, that means that where solarpunk is interested in renewable energy, sustainability, appropriate technology, and social justice, lunarpunk is interested in the tools, like cryptography, cryptocurrencies, and web3, that safeguard our privacy and anonymity and potentially protect us from tyranny. Do we need lunarpunk’s fixation with using tech to protect our privacy to counterbalance solarpunk’s sunny optimism that everything will all be fine to break through to a better world?

To learn more about Stephen, his philosophies, and his work, check out https://stephenreid.net/

https://youtu.be/c0pDT5f2R9E

#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk @web3isgreat #lunarpunk #cryptocurrency #privacy #technology #StephenReid #technologist #futurism #Web3 #cooption #controversy #aesthetic #cryptography #anonymity

And we're back, baby!

6.1: How Dare Solarpunks Do OUTRAGE?!!! Ariel & Christina Discuss

Now streaming: some hot takes from your solarpunk aunties. Ariel and Christina consider why wallowing in negative feelings is just so delicious ... as opposed to wallowing in, you know, acts of kindness and feelings of compassion, which are just a bit more solarpunk. We live in an age of outrage, it seems: cancelling, social media mobbing, cyberbullying ... but also drawing attention to human rights violations, or dodgy political happenings, or just straight-up illegal goings-on! How can we tell whether our outrage is justified or not? How can we avoid emotional manipulation? Can we think of outrage as a solarpunk tool?

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season6 #Episode #AffectTheory #Emotion #Outrage #RighteousAnger #SocialMediaMobbing #Cyberbullying #protest #NegativeAffects #EmotionalManipulation #EmotionalIntelligence #EmotionalLiteracy

https://youtu.be/JiqeRhUNHjI

Now updated with the correct link, even - Ariel

Season 3 Episode 8: Propaganda and Petroturfing with Dr Jordan Kinder

What is petroturfing? What is an energy imaginary? If, as Thomas King says, we are all stories, how can we make sense of which stories are leading us to an understanding of things as they are, rather than misrepresenting reality or persuading us to take a biased view? And what can we do when we learn to critically interpret the world around us? What are some concrete actions we can take as regular folks if we decide that we want to push back against this narrative of “ethical oil” and intervene in the reactionary oil culture war?

Dr Jordan Kinder has spent the last decade of his life thinking about these questions, specifically in the context of the Canadian oil industry and Alberta. The result? His new book Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil, which covers these topics and more, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in spring 2024. Join Ariel and Jordan to learn about the many competing narratives about (and even by!) Canadian oil and gas—including but not limited to being labelled dirty oil, ethical oil, one of the world’s leading polluters, an underdog industry under attack, a Canadian success story, the ball and chain around Canada’s neck as it tries to avert climate catastrophe, and the list goes on…

https://youtu.be/_2X-AY5DRV8?si=tV8liBgRi3KLsX8-

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Oil #CanadianOil #AlbertaOil #Petroculture #Petroturfing #OilAndGas #OilSands #ClimateChange #Pollution #Advertising #Propaganda

Season 3 Episode 7: Protecting the Environment With GIS: Mapping WWII's Sunken Ships with Paul Heersink

This week, Ariel chats with Paul Heersink, cartographer and Program Manager for the Roads and Addresses program at ESRI Canada. Formerly, he was Production Manager of the Community Maps Program: an initiative that is aiming to build a seamless topographic basemap of Canada using contributor data, and the Roads and Addresses program aims to do the same with community-sourced data, building a navigable map of Canada with the most up-to-date information provided by those who know it best.

Paul also personally maintains and updates a map of the sunken battleships (and other naval vessels) that were downed during World War Two. Paul’s map combines two of his interests - cartography and WWII history and, though it started as a passion project outside of work, Paul has been approached by numerous organizations since publishing his data that are very interested in using it to support salvaging and reclamation efforts. The ships have been called “ticking ecological time bombs” as they are carrying crude oil, munitions, and other toxic materials that can leach into the water around them as the hulls degrade. That said, some also contain traditional treasure! Join us for a discussion about the details.

https://youtu.be/R4-xfO8ff2Q?si=kAV-Fj5W7TpCE3CK

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #GIS #maps #SunkenShips #OceanMapping #OceanPollution #Oil #Ships #WW2 #WWII #ESRI #ESRICanada #GeographicInformationalSystems

S2.9 is now available on YouTube!

In this episode, Ariel discusses the topic of ecocriticism with Dr Jenny Kerber, Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.

What is ecocriticism? Why is it important, especially for environmental activists and solarpunks, as a narrative reframing device? Solarpunks work very closely with speculation and imagination and as architects of the narratives by which we live our lives, it helps to have tools like ecocriticism at our disposal.

Join Ariel and Dr. Kerber to think through terms like “wilderness” and “nature” and “the Anthropocene”. How do we hold on to hope, despite critical engagement with the dark side of our environmental narratives?

https://youtu.be/uSz6YvhVsLI

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #ecocriticism @academicchatter #NarrativeReframing #Wilderness #Environment #EnvironmentalFiction #Environmentalism #Ecofiction #academia #GreenAcademia #speculation

S2.3 now on YouTube!

The situation in Lebanon today is bleak. Carved out of the remains of the Ottoman Empire and subjected to years of colonialism-lite administration by France, its economy and infrastructure have been devastated by a long civil war, overlapping occupations by Syria and Israel, and corruption on a massive scale. Since 2019, Lebanon has been in the midst of a severe financial crisis, with widespread unemployment and hyperinflation. Now 80% of the population is poor and Lebanon is on the brink of becoming a failed state.

And yet, JD Harlock, Poetry Editor at Solarpunk Magazine, who lives in Beirut, believes in solarpunk. Join us for this episode to find out how that can be and what day to day life is like in Beirut right now.

https://youtu.be/1BTJV9QKxw4

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Beirut #Lebanon #BeirutExplosion
#BeirutLebanon #hopepunk #hopeDespitePoliticalDisaster #podcast #interview #interviewPodcast #OttomanEmpire #economics #history #MiddleEasternHistory #colonialism #poetry SolarpunkMagazine #solarpunk poetry #poetryEditor #LebaneseCivilWar #civilWar #FrenchColonialism #infrastructure #financialCrisis #LebanonFinancialCrisis #LebaneseFinancialCrisis #Syria #Israel #unemployment #hyperinflation #hope

Our monthly bonus chat is live! This special episode focuses on a simple question - Why can't Hollywood make a good climate change movie? This was prompted by @xtinadlr 's rewatch of The Day After Tomorrow some time ago, and as a scientist and solarpunk, she was both horrified and offended.

Join us as she gets it out of her system, and we deep-dive into this example of the representation of climate catastrophe on the silver screen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4VESnnKTdk

PS: This topic was voted on by our Patreon supporters, who also received exclusive early access to this and other bonus materials. Just FYI 😉

#solarpunkpresentspodcast #solarpunk #BonusEpisode #podcast #TheDayAfterTomorrow #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeInMovies #ClimateCatastrophe #CatastropheFilms #Movies #Films #DisasterMovies #DisasterPorn #Catastrophe #Disaster #SuddenIceAge #Glaciation #Spectacle #Spectacular #FilmReview #moviereview

Episode 3.4 is live! "The Radical Democratizing Power of a Better Way to Make Things, With Sarah Hutton"

Have the inhumanity and environmental destructiveness of global supply chains got you down? What about the rapaciousness of multinational corporations who have twisted globalization into a nightmare for so many people on Earth? Here’s one thing you can do about it: you can support the growing movement known as distributed production. In Episode 3 of Season 4, researcher Sarah Hutton of the Internet of Production Alliance explains what distributed production is, why it’s all about people power, and exactly why it is a completely radical and powerfully democratizing activity that is also better for local jobs, local communities, and the environment. Listen here!

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-four/the-radical-democratizing-power-of-a-better-way-to-make-things-with-sarah-hutton

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #DistributedProduction #democracy #politics #community #trade #production #InternetOfProductionAlliance #PeoplePower #Action #Activism #LocalJobs #Jobs #environment #globalization #InternationalTrade #GlobalTrade #Multinational #Corporations #SupplyChain #GlobalSupplyChain #GlobalSupplyChains

Have you read our first advice column? We've launched a series called "Dear Solarpunk Presents..." where we respond to questions or links or comments (etc) you've sent us about solarpunk and related things.

Not sure if something is solarpunk? Want the opinions of either @arielkroon or @xtinadlr?

We have a LOT of opinions, and we're very happy to be wrong but we can only learn if other people join our conversation.

So head over to our blog and let us know what you think!

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/blog/dear-solarpunk-presents-is-it-solarpunk-when-billionaires-decide-to-build-a-solarpunk-city

(Disclaimer: we're not the arbiters of what is solarpunk or not; that would be very silly. This series hopes to provide a place for discussion where the solarpunk community can learn from each other!)

#solarpunk #solarpunkPresentsPodcast #blog #DearSolarpunkPresents #Advice #AdviceColumn #city #UrbanPlanning #Billionaires #SolarpunkCity #UrbanDesign #IsItSolarpunk? #QandA #Question #CaliforniaForever