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THE PRESENT
Our newly renamed podcast, Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast is all about radical hope and resistance in the age of climate disaster. This newest iteration of Solarpunk Magazine's podcast will launch it's first episode on Monday, January 27, 2025.
On Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson (founder and co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine) envisions a world where humanity thrives in harmony with nature, equity and justice guide our communities, and creativity fuels solutions to our shared challenges. By imagining brighter futures and confronting current crises with resilience, we aim to cultivate hope and empower individuals to co-create a sustainable, inclusive, and thriving planet. Our mission is to inspire hope and action by exploring solarpunk ideas, sharing grassroots solutions, and amplifying the voices of change-makers who challenge dystopian realities. Through critical analysis, meaningful conversations, and creative storytelling, we provide listeners with the tools and inspiration to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world while nurturing optimism in the face of adversity.
THE PAST
Our podcast began with the title Solarpunk Futures and has gone through a few different iterations. Starting in the fall of 2021, the original podcast ran for seven monthly episodes. Then beginning in fall 2022, the podcast was rebranded as Solarpunk Presents. That iteration was hosted by our then non-fiction co-editors Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha. In January of 2023, Solarpunk Presents branched off on its own as a separate podcast, and in the spring of 2024 Solarpunk Futures came back briefly for a few episodes before going on hiatus for a reworking and rebranding.
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AI Has a Body
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May 13, 2026 |
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Why Are Hopeful Stories Still So Hard to Write?
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May 11, 2026 |
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The Grid is a Care System
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May 07, 2026 |
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Stop Greed, Build Green
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May 06, 2026 |
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Housing Is Solarpunk's Genre Test
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May 04, 2026 |
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Has Solarpunk Become Too Aesthetic?
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May 04, 2026 |
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No Borders, No Barriers
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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SO[L.A.]RPUNK
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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DEI, Education, and a Solarpunk Future
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Aging with Dignity in a Solarpunk Future
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Resisting Dystopia is Demanding Utopia
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 2)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 1)
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Moving Forward
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Anatomy of Utopia
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Utopian Visions Through Time
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Solarpunk Futures: The Evolution of Solarpunk
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Solarpunk Futures: When We Hold Each Other Up
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May 08, 2023 |
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Solarpunk Presents Finale: Let's Talk Solstice, Solarpunks!
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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How We Build Climate Resilience: An Interview with Dr. Lisa Dilling
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Shining bright in the heart of oil country: interview with Heather MacKenzie from Solar Alberta
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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The Soft Glow of the Deep Sea: Talking Bioluminescence with Dr. Steve Haddock
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Interview with Justine Norton-Kertson about BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Interview with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts about saving democracy through urban planning
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Interview with Gabrielle Gelderman about Climate Grief Chaplaincy
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Interview with Dr Hélène Jacot Des Combes on Climate Change and the Marshall Islands
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Interview with John Okhiulu from the Decolonizing Wealth Project
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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"Must Solarpunk Should?" - Our Nonfiction Editors Discuss
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Solar Futures: an Interview with ASU's Joey Eschrich & Clark Miller
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Interview with Nina Munteanu
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Shine Anthology: Interview with Jetse de Vries
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Art, Carbon Capture, and Restoring Native Forests
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Interview with Sarena Ulibarri + Reading "Caught Root"
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Countdown to Blast Off
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Amazofuturism and Solarpunk
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Sep 12, 2021 |