Have you ever felt hopeless? Like everything is too complicated? Society is too hard to change?

Then maybe you need a bit of Solarpunk in your life, an art aesthetic / literary genre / political movement, proposing a radical different way of living and being. 

In this episode, co-host Zoe fangirls over Andrew Sage, an artist, YouTuber and organiser on solarpunk and leftist politics. Andrew deftly diagnoses our inability to radically change society is rooted in that we don’t know what alternative we are proposing. Solarpunk provides a vision for us to work towards, and values to build sustainable and successful movements for change.

In the words of Toni Cade Bambara, “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”

Check out Andrews YouTube here YouTube.com/Andrewism & Patreon here patreon.com/saintdrew

References:

• SOLARPUNK 2021 - A Collaborative Art Project, Andrewism

• The Hope of Solarpunk (2021) Andrew Sage and Sabrina Gaveard, Shado

• What is Solarpunk (2023) Andrew Sage and Wei wu, Shado

• Building Utopia Pt 3: Harmony Between Humanity, Technology, and Nature (2022) Jank

• Tools for Conviviality (1973) Ivan Illich

Solaprpunk reading list:

• Walk Away (2017) Cory Doctorow

• The Dispossessed (1974) Ursula K. Le Guin

• A Psalm for the Wild-Build (2021) Becky Chambers

• Ecotopia (1975) Ernest Callenbach

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