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7.9: Writing (and Doing!) Magical Activism Through Solarpunk Fiction With BrightFlame
In this episode, Ariel talks with BrightFlame: witch, workshop leader, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Design at Columbia University, and author of solarpunk witchcraft short stories and now a new novel, called The Working. They discuss what solarpunk witchcraft looks like and how, though witchcraft’s manipulation of energy on the astral plane is extremely important, magic is only one half of the equation: the other is activism - actually getting out there and doing the thing, whether it’s attending a protest, contributing to a potluck to strengthen community bonds, or making something with a specific intent in mind.
#solarpunk #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #episode #SeasonSeven #MagicalActivism #SolarpunkWitchcraft #Witchcraft #SolarpunkFiction #Intention #Paganism #Spirituality #SolarpunkSpirituality @BrightFlame #TheWorking
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7.7: Ariel & Christina Discuss Living with a Disability as a Solarpunk
Today Christina talks to Ariel about what it's been like to live as a solarpunk with a visible - and then invisible - disability. Science fiction has spent decades dreaming of how future tech will make disabled people able to function as if they were fully abled. Now solarpunk has arrived on the scene to ask why should disabled bodies have to always be the ones to adapt? It can be uncomfortable, intrusive - not to mention expensive. Solarpunk wonders why can't cities, society, workplaces, and the like be the ones to use the tech to make themselves more accessible to and inclusive of disabled people?
Tune in as Ariel and Christina discuss the portrayal of disability in science fiction and solarpunk and how having to suddenly live with a disability opens your eyes to many of the ways cities fail people with disabilities.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Episode #SeasonSeven #disability #spoony #SpoonTheory #spoonies #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue #SolarpunkAndDisability #Ableism #InvisibleDisability #ScienceFiction #SciFiAndDisability
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Cannot remember if I've posted about this already, so apologies if this is a duplicate, but the transcript for episode 7.3 is now available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/125524354?collection=1380839
I've added it in to YouTube and the podcast description itself so it is accessible everywhere :)
#SolarpunkPResentsPodcast #PodcastTranscript #SeasonSeven #Transcript
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7.6: Abundance, Inclusion, Resilience: The One Million Neighbours Project with Sam Nabi
This episode, Ariel speaks to Sam Nabi about One Million Neighbours, a project bringing together the voices of local non-profits that envisions the future of Waterloo Region once the population has reached one million. Sam discusses the impetus for the project, providing a voice for the voiceless, the issue with grant applications, funding the future, being proactive instead of reactive to harsh policies, and much more. What might an abundant, inclusive, resilient (Ariel says: solarpunk) city look like on the human level? Who lives there, what do they value, and what are their daily lives like? And what does it look like to take action now at the regional/municipal level to ensure that utopian vision?
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Episode #SeasonSeven #podcast #interview #OneMillionNeighbours @samnabi @dtkmelissa #VisionOneMillion #HoldTheLineWR #Nonprofits #neighbours #Waterloo #RegionOfWaterloo #Kitchener #KW #UrbanPlanning #transit #PublicSpaces
Today is Victoria Day in Canada, a national holiday, so I briefly considered waiting to post this until Tuesday but screw colonial measures of time; #notmyqueen lol
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7.5: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Four Great Things We Take for Granted and Ought to Fight to Keep
In these dark times of (American) political backsliding/the general rise of fascism in the Global North, Ariel and Christina consider four things that we'd made great progress on, to the point of taking those achievements for granted. Let's take the time to acknowledge them and the danger we are in of losing them. Because how can we fight for what we don't recognize as being incredible yet fragile?
PS: We definitely didn't plan on this coming out on the day of the Canadian federal election, but so it goes. Go forth and fight the fascists at the ballot box, friends.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPodcast #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Episode #SeasonSeven #Voting #Fascism #Values #FreeSpeech #WomensRights #Feminism #Standards #Decolonization #EDI #Corruption #PoliticalCorruption
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7.4: Enhancing the local values chain with community gardens feat. Doug Jones
In this episode, Ariel interviews Doug Jones from Waterloo Region Community Garden Network, and he discusses about how the Network was started, what it does, and the benefits of gardening for the health and wellbeing not only for you but for your entire community. We discuss gleaning, food insecurity, access to land, and much more; this is an episode you’re going to want to listen to, especially if rising cost of food and food security are concerns for you these days.
I (Ariel) have included some links to the local organizations he mentions, as well as some that expand on some of the topics we discussed, which you can check out in the YouTube description or on our blog.
#SolarPunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #food #FoodProduction #LandAccess #CommunityGardens #CommunityGardening #FoodSecurity #Ontario #Canada #RegionOfWaterloo
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6.10: The Dilemma of Utopian Joy: Ariel & Christina Discuss
While solarpunks often choose to stand in direct opposition to selfishness, greed, and systemic problems, the choice to be kind and to prioritize joy, sympathy, and understanding is also central to solarpunk in fiction and in real life. As Christina and Ariel discuss, while acts of kindness occur in all sorts of fictions, even cyberpunk and dystopian fictions, acts of kindness in solarpunk stories tend to be transformative, especially for the person or group on the receiving end. They then explore the sacrifices that it takes (and who has to make them) in order to maintain peace, prosperity, and joy in society by two famous solarpunk–adjacent stories set in utopias, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin and “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” by N.K. Jemisin. Christina is not sure if she’s on board for either of these stories, but she agrees with the premise that now is the time not to walk away in disillusionment, but to fight hard for human rights, justice, and fairness in all of our different political systems and societies.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #episode #SeasonSix #utopia #joy #UtopianJoy #kindness #compassion #dilemma #TrolleyProblem #ParadoxOfTolerance
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6.9: There's More to Explore: Diving Deeper Into Fully Automated! a Solarpunk RPG, With Andy Gross
Due to personal issues, Christina couldn't take part in the original interview with Andy Gross about the solarpunk role playing game Fully Automated! that made up S6E2. But she had questions. In this episode, she had a chance to ask them. Before you grab your dice and download the game (for free!) at https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/ have a listen!
https://youtu.be/rVbt259kvoY?si=X8pIWaprFex_XOqS
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #SolarpunkPodcast #Episode #seasonSix @FullyAutomatedRPG #TTRPG #RPG #postScarcity #roleplaying #tabletoproleplaying #imagination #imaginativeexpansion #games
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6.8: Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch
Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.
#solarpunk #episodes #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SeasonSix #PublicEducation #Schools #SchoolBoards #FarRightAgenda #AltRight #Fascism #Policy #Democracy #Education
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6.7: Restorative Justice & Reconciliation With Rev Nora Jacob
Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nora Jacob on a better way to dispense justice than to subject offenders to a strictly brutal prison experience. A way that, by recognizing that hurt people hurt people, aims to empower, not just victims, but also offenders, to heal. This isn’t just showing mercy to incarcerated people, it significantly lowers the chances that they’ll end up back in prison after their release. That's a win for us all.
#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #solarpunk #podcast #RestorativeJustice #JusticeSystem #AmericanJusticeSystem #Reconciliation #Episode #SeasonSix #EcoJustice #Justice #Repair #Reintegration #AmericanPrisonSystem #Education #BuildingRElationships #CommunityCare #Empathy
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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
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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.
#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
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6.5: The Challenges and Joy of Fostering Rescue Animals
If you’re a no-kill animal shelter or an animal rescue group and you’ve got more animals than kennels to keep them in, or you’ve got dogs or cats with health or behavioral problems that need sorting out to render the animals adoptable, what are you going to do? You’re going to call an animal fosterer like Rena Curtis to take that animal in, de-traumatize it, teach it some manners, and get its health problems sorted out so it can go a-courtin’ its forever people. Tune in as we discuss this hard, sometimes frightening, occasionally heart-wrenching, but ultimately satisfying work, why there are so many more dogs and cats than homes to put them in, and what we can do to change that situation.
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #episode #SeasonSix #pets #cats #dogs #fostering #FosterFail #RescueDogs #RescueCats #AdoptDontShop
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Episode 5.7: Building Dual Power, with Andre 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 their daily lives. Their conversation ranges from the history of the term dual power, to examples from André’s own life, to the concept of mutual aid, the importance of imagining a better world, how to build relationships as an introvert, and even includes a discussion of human nature.
#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk #DualPower #HydroponicTrash #Hydroponics @hydroponictrash #MutualAid #SolarpunkFiction #BetterWorlds #SocialJustice #SocialChange #Neighborhood #Neighbourhood #CivicPower #Cities #UrbanSolarpunk
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Episode 5.6: 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 Pasek is co-founder of the Low Carbon Research Methods Group, and she talks to Ariel all about what Low Carbon Research is (and can look like!), the “carbon footprint” of academic research, new innovative ways for research to respond to the climate crisis, the importance of zines, and even hosting her own solar server in her backyard!
#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk @Aepasek @academicchatter #solar #SolarServer #LowCarbonMethods #Research #ResearchGroup #Humanities #Petrocultures #LowCarbonMethodsResearchGroup #Academic #Academia #AcademicResearch #scholarship #scholar #interview
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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
Now updated with the correct link, even - Ariel
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June monthly Bonus Episode is out now!
As fun as it is to talk about how solarpunk the various Studio Ghibli movies are, Ariel and I decided to stay truer to Season 5's theme of tech in this bonus chat. One of our listeners is interested in converting cars to run off of a mixture of ammonia and hydrogen, so we decided to take a look at the issue of using hydrogen as a fuel in general.
It's a hot topic, one of those that we all have feelings about, without necessarily knowing much of the facts. Worse, at the moment, the hype over (and use of) hydrogen fuel constitutes little more than greenwashing - especially egregious, because it's becoming a policy issue raised as part of a
net-zero energy solution in many countries.We do our best here to bring you the facts about what hydrogen fuel is, how hydrogen fuel is made, whether or not hydrogen could actually be a sustainable fuel, and what role hydrogen fuel would most sensibly play in our attempts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions ASAP.
PS Sorry for the potato quality audio on my part; my mic died just before recording and I'm trying to fix it currently XD - Ariel
#solarpunk #hydrogenfuel #energytransition #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #hydrogen #HydrogenFuel #GreenHydrogen #SustainableEnergy