Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast

By Justine Norton-Kertson

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Our newly renamed podcast, Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast is all about radical hope and resistance in the age of climate disaster. This newest it

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April 27, 2025 No Borders, No Barriers
On this episode of Demand Utopia, 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.
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30min
April 14, 2025 SO[L.A.]RPUNK
On this episode, our host Justine Norton-Kertson imagines what Los Angeles might look in a more hopeful, solarpunk future.
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12min
March 24, 2025 DEI, Education, and a Solarpunk Future
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 imagine what decentralizing education might look like from a solarpunk perspective instead.
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30min
March 16, 2025 Aging with Dignity in a Solarpunk Future
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 as the current attacks and drive to privatize this century old system of public, collective care. Then we pivot and imagine what elder care and aging with dignity might look like in a more compassionate and decentralized solarpunk future.
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47min
March 11, 2025 Resisting Dystopia is Demanding Utopia
A war on protest has been declared, with promises to expel, arrest, imprison, and deport student protesters. But resisting dictatorship and dystopia is key to building utopia. That's why on this episode, we're breaking down the current war on protest, its connection to past state crackdowns on movements, and how solarpunk offers a different vision. We also talk about various ways people can engage in resistance even if they can't or don't want to attend street protests.
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44min
March 02, 2025 Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 2)
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 alternatives to imperialism through solarpunk values and practices.
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34min
February 23, 2025 Solarpunk vs Imperialism (Pt. 1)
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 his first month back in the White House, and we discuss his actions within the historical context of U.S. imperialism specifically, and western imperialism in general. Next week in part 2, we'll dive into the solarpunk response to imperialism and look at real life examples of the struggle to end the empire's global exploitation.
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45min
February 18, 2025 Moving Forward
On our first episode back after a nine month hiatus, host Justine Norton-Kertson reflects on the current political landscape, imagines a solarpunk future, and looks at some recent grassroots victories to inspire us for the struggle ahead.
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34min
April 25, 2024 The Anatomy of Utopia
In this second episode of Solarpunk Magazine's newly relaunched podcast, Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia!, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks at different characteristics, ideas, and alternative systems that have been proposed as part of various utopian visions. And we'll think about how we can apply these lessons to the collective solarpunk world-building project Solarpunk Magazine is launching on May 1st. You can make sure you get notifications when we release new world-building polls and questions buy signing up for our blog or the free section of our Patreon.

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The Solarpunk Futures: Demand Utopia! podcast is a production of Solarpunk Magazine and Android Press.
Produced and hosted by Justine Norton-Kertson.
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56min
April 19, 2024 Utopian Visions Through Time
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-utopian shift.
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