Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast
Episodes
Climate Harm Has Victims, and Governments Have Names
26 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson takes a look at a climate human rights case...
The Heat Index is a Labor Standard
24 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks how extreme heat is changing the way ...
Hurricane Season and the Myth of the Evacuation Order
22 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, we have part 3 of our series on Disaster Prep as Community Care. We’r...
The Data Center Revolt
19 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson dives into the data center revolt with thre...
Clean Air Is Climate Infrastructure
17 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson continues the discussion about wildfire and...
Disaster Prep is Community Care Pt 2 of 8
15 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson brings you part 2 of our series of disaster...
Radio Free Luna, Signing Off by Sylvie Althoff
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson reads a short story from our most recent is...
No One Survives Alone
08 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, we’re launching our series on disaster prep, not as a hyper-individua...
Solar Is About to Win, So Why Are We Still Paying So Much?
29 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks at the rise of solar power and examin...
Is Regenerative Agriculture the Next Greenwashing Scam?
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses the recent Regenerative Agricultu...
Beyond Mortar and Magic + What the Sea Remembers
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson reads two short stories from Solarpunk Maga...
Climate Action Is Not Charity
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses the recent UN General Assembly vo...
Coming This Summer
24 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When disaster comes, the fantasy says: run, hide, protect your own. But real survival has never worked that way. When the smoke rolls in, when the flo...
Can a River Have Rights?
23 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses local, national, and internationa...
The Energy Transition Has a Mining Problem
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson examines the energy transition's dependency...
AI Has a Body
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about AI and what it costs us, our co...
Why Are Hopeful Stories Still So Hard to Write?
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson explores why hopeful stories are still so h...
The Grid is a Care System
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses power outages as a matter of life...
Stop Greed, Build Green
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Demand Utopia podcast from Solapunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson takes a look at a recent article from The Guardian ab...
Has Solarpunk Become Too Aesthetic?
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses the balance between aesthetics and politics in the solarpunk genre. Hosted on ...
Housing Is Solarpunk's Genre Test
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses how housing serves as a litmus test for solarpunk futures: if the future can’...
No Borders, No Barriers
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Demand Utopia, host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about the history and purpose of borders, then does a thought experiment imagining...
SO[L.A.]RPUNK
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, our host Justine Norton-Kertson imagines what Los Angeles might look in a more hopeful, solarpunk future. Hosted on Acast. See acast....
DEI, Education, and a Solarpunk Future
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we examine the current attempts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and how DEI is at the center of those attacks. Then, we ...
Aging with Dignity in a Solarpunk Future
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we introduce our new climate news segment. Then we examine the U.S. social security system, how it's funded and distributed, as well a...
Resisting Dystopia is Demanding Utopia
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A war on protest has been declared, with promises to expel, arrest, imprison, and deport student protesters. But resisting dictatorship and dystopia i...
Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 2)
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our episode on the rise of a new, more overt brand of imperialism in the U.S. under the second Trump administration, we dive into alterna...
Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 1)
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in the first of a two part episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, we look at the brazen imperialist moves Trump has made so far in ...
Moving Forward
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On our first episode back after a nine month hiatus, host Justine Norton-Kertson reflects on the current political landscape, imagines a solarpunk fut...
The Anatomy of Utopia
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of Solarpunk Magazine's newly relaunched podcast, Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia!, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks at diffe...
Utopian Visions Through Time
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Justine Norton-Kertson takes us on a tour of utopian visions through time from Plato to More, and from Indigenous cultures to today's post-utopia...
Solarpunk Futures: The Evolution of Solarpunk
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a minute since we've posted a podcast episode, but we're excited to get back at it with a regular monthly schedule. In this episode, we take...
Solarpunk Futures: When We Hold Each Other Up
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Justine Norton-Kertson talks with author and editor Phoebe Wagner about past work, as well as their recently published solarpunk novella, When We Hold...
Solarpunk Presents Finale: Let's Talk Solstice, Solarpunks!
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the finale of Solarpunk Presents' first-ever season, Ariel and Christina sit down to chat together about the Winter Solstice - Christina brings the...
How We Build Climate Resilience: An Interview with Dr. Lisa Dilling
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and...
Shining bright in the heart of oil country: interview with Heather MacKenzie from Solar Alberta
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, Ariel chats with Heather MacKenzie, Executive Director of Solar Alberta, about transitioning to renewable energy deep in the hea...
The Soft Glow of the Deep Sea: Talking Bioluminescence with Dr. Steve Haddock
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You don't have to be a solarpunk—or a lunarpunk—to dream of bioluminescence, from twinkling phytoplankton to glowing lamps, phosphorescent fungi, ...
Interview with Justine Norton-Kertson about BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY. They discuss what lunar...
Interview with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts about saving democracy through urban planning
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Solarpunk is all about vibrant, beautiful, livable cities filled with plants, public transportation, and solar panels—in other words, nothing like t...
Interview with Gabrielle Gelderman about Climate Grief Chaplaincy
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, nonfiction co-editor Ariel Kroon sits down for a virtual chat with Gabrielle Gelderman, an Edmonton, Alberta-ba...
Interview with Dr Hélène Jacot Des Combes on Climate Change and the Marshall Islands
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Christina De La Rocha talks to Dr Hélène Jacot Des Combes, Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Advisor to the Na...
Interview with John Okhiulu from the Decolonizing Wealth Project
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, Ariel sits down with John Okhiulu from the Decolonizing Wealth Project to talk about the role of philanthropy i...
"Must Solarpunk Should?" - Our Nonfiction Editors Discuss
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this soft-launch of Solarpunk Presents, the companion podcast to Solarpunk Futures, hosts and Solarpunk Magazine nonfiction editors Ariel Kroon and...
Solar Futures: an Interview with ASU's Joey Eschrich & Clark Miller
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On episode 7 we talk with Joey Eschrich and Clark Miller from Arizona State University about solar power, the solarpunk anthologies they've been publi...
Interview with Nina Munteanu
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Canadian sci-fi and climate fiction author, Nina Munteanu, about water and her recent books, blurring the lines between ...
Shine Anthology: Interview with Jetse de Vries
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On our fifth episode, co-host Brianna Castagnozzi talks with Jetse de Vries about his 2010 Shine Anthology, a collection of optimistic science fiction...
Art, Carbon Capture, and Restoring Native Forests
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we talk with Yishan Wong. Yishan is the founder and CEO of Terraformation, and former CEO of Reddit about the solarpunk art contest h...
Interview with Sarena Ulibarri + Reading "Caught Root"
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3 we talk with Sarena Ulibarri, head of World Weaver Press and editor of three solarpunk anthologies including Glass & Gardens: Solarpu...
Countdown to Blast Off
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On our second episode, we talk more about Solarpunk Magazine and our goals for the next few months. We also read and discuss a work of solarpunk flash...
Amazofuturism and Solarpunk
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode, we talk with Brazilian lawyer and author Yasmin Moita, who has a short story titled, "Taming the Sea and the Wind," in the forth...