In this eleventh episode of Solarpunking, we talk about protection.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) ReasonTV, The Reawakening of the Black Gun-Rights Movement, YouTube (Oct. 13, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2QcPWuIFOM (last visited Aug. 17, 2025).

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4) World Central Kitchen, https://wck.org/relief

In this tenth episode of Solarpunking, we talk about having the choice to choose a different lifestyle.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) Church of Scientology, WIKIPEDIA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology (last visited Aug. 10, 2025).

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3) TheDarkLeft, Red Cards v. Blue Cards, YouTube (Jul 3, 2025), https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pwptuS8Bx1c (last visited Aug. 10, 2025).

4) Em's Wild World, How Solarpunk Could Solve Capitalism's Major Greed Problem, YouTube (Apr. 14, 2025) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFR-3U_OgjU (last visited Aug. 10, 2025).

5) Andrewism, How to Build a Solarpunk City, YouTube (Mar. 8 2023), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0 (last visited Aug. 10, 2025).

6) https://15outof10.org/

In this ninth episode of Solarpunking, we explore how community can be "open source."

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) Chomsky's Philosophy, Noam Chomsky - Solidarity, YouTube (Nov 10, 2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eY_O6BNC3g (last visited Aug 3, 2025)

2) TED, Can AI Help Solve the Climate Crisis? | Sims Witherspoon, YouTube (Sep 21, 2023), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNhbqQefPSg (last visited Aug 3, 2025)

3) TEDx, Connect and lead, How We Create Community | Kathy Coffey, YouTube (Nov 17, 2017), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6D1clAMFyw (last visited Aug 3, 2025)

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In this eighth episode of Solarpunking, we talk about mutual aid networks.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) Big Door Brigade, What Is Mutual Aid?, https://bigdoorbrigade.com/what-is-mutual-aid/ (last visited July 27, 2025).

2) Dean Spade, What Is Mutual Aid? (Classroom Version), YouTube (Apr. 21, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPgTZeF5Z0 (last visited July 28, 2025).

3) Food Not Bombs, https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/index.php (last visited July 27, 2025).

4) NAACP Legal Def. & Educ. Fund, About Us, https://www.naacpldf.org/about-us/ (last visited July 27, 2025).

5) Andrewism, What is Mutual Aid?, YouTube (March 24, 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlF-ZvRHa2o (last visited July 27, 2025)

In this seventh episode of Solarpunking, we talk about climate change.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also listen to educational clips from the Royal Entomological Society, PBS Nova, and Professor Federico Savini of the University of Amsterdam. Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Carbon Cycle Toolkit, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, https://gml.noaa.gov/education/carbon_toolkit/ (last visited July 20, 2025).

2) Martin Keller et al., Top 4 Promising Solutions by Sector to Fight Rising Emissions, Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, Univ. of Colo. (2025), https://www.colorado.edu/globalclimatesummit/learn/top-4-promising-solutions-sector-fight-rising-emissions (last visited July 20, 2025).

3) Royal Entomological Society, Why Are Insects Important?, YouTube (Oct. 20, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19iEWe-qH5o. (last visited July 20, 2025)

4) NOVA PBS Official, How Carbon Dioxide Warms Planet Earth, YouTube (Feb. 27, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSBydPkLEII. (last visited July 20, 2025).

5) UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag, Degrowth | Scientist Answers Google's Most Asked Questions | University of Amsterdam, YouTube (June 19, 2023), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDItiGHKVsc. (last visited July 20, 2025).

6) Protect My Public Media, https://protectmypublicmedia.org/ (last visited July 20, 2025).

In this sixth episode of Solarpunking, we talk about the vision.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also listen to inspirational clips from Keisha Howard's "Imagining a SolarPunk Future" with TEDx, and Andrewism's "What is Solarpunk?" Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources

1) Keisha Howard, Imagining a SolarPunk Future | Keisha Howard | TEDxOgden, TEDx Talks (June 27, 2023), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWi8Tyz_7FQ.

2) Andrewism, What Is Solarpunk?, YouTube (Dec. 16, 2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM.

3) Mark Kramer, Return of the Endangereds, Armand Bayou Nature Center Nature‑as‑Normal Blog (July 27, 2020), https://www.abnc.org/nature-blog/return-of-the-endangereds.

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In this fifth episode of Solarpunking, we talk about safety.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also listen to a powerful clips from Rep. Ilhan Omar or Minnesota, Angela Rye of Native Land Pod, Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia University, John Morales of NBC News, and musician Buffalo Nichols.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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1) Democracy Now!, "We Are in the Midst of the Creation of a Police State": Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump's Authoritarianism, YouTube (June 13, 2025), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm-de... (last visited July 6, 2025).

2) AP News, Ferguson, Missouri, agrees to pay $4.5 million to settle 'debtors' prison' lawsuit, AP News (Feb. 27, 2024), https://apnews.com/article/ferguson-missouri-debtors-prison-lawsuit-settlement-db3523584b971964f67f2b7c647b8fb7 (last visited July 5, 2025).

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In this fourth episode of Solarpunking, we talk about a few things that made me feel hopeful.

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also listen to a powerful except from Zohran Mamdani's victory speech in the New York Mayoral Primary, and the trailer from the Netflix documentary: The Death and Life of Marsh P. Johnson.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Stonewall Inn Recommended Reading List:

• Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (Modern Library). Modern Library ed, Modern Library, 2021.

• Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. 1st ed., St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

• Duberman, Martin. Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America. Revised, Plume, 2019.

• Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series). F First Edition Used, Crossing Press, 1982.

• Lorde, Audre, and Cheryl Clarke. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Reprint, Crossing Press, 2007.

• Marcus, Eric. Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive. Making Gay History, 2021.

• Rustin, Bayard, et al. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Second, Cleis Press, 2015.

• Smith, Barbara. The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. First Paperback Edition, Rutgers University Press, 2000.

• Snorton, Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. 3rd ed., Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017.

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2) Public Grocery Store, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_grocery_store (last visited June 29, 2025).

3) Democratic Socialism, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism (last visited June 29, 2025).

4) Burgess Everett, Lee Pulls Federal Land Sales from Megabill, Politico (June 28, 2025, 4:53 PM), https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/lee-pulls-federal-land-sales-from-megabill-00431471.

5) William Perry Pendley, Dep’t of the Interior, in Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise 517 (Paul Dans & Steven Groves eds., The Heritage Found. 2023).

6) Brajesh Upadhyay, Transgender References Removed from Stonewall Monument Website, BBC News (Feb. 14, 2025), https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglywwn29n6o.

In this third episode of Solarpunking, we ask: what is true justice, and how do you attain it?

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also listen to a powerful excepts from answer from BeautifulTrouble.org, Kwame Ture, and Kimberly Latrice Jones as they explain different concepts of justice in America. 

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

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Sources:

1) Beautiful Trouble, Abolition: Reimagining Justice, YOUTUBE SHORTS (May 22, 2023), https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IX2gLhyeZ-o.

2) Al Jazeera English, Angela Davis on the Argument for Police and Prison Abolition | UpFront, YouTube (Dec. 17, 2021), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRUHYkjwx4 (last visited June 21, 2025).

2) Changes in arrests following decriminalization of low‑level drug possession: Evidence from Oregon and Washington, International Journal of Drug Policy (2023), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395923002025 (last visited June 21, 2025).

3) Kwame Ture, The Principle of Capitalism (UCLA, Jan. 31, 1973), YOUTUBE (Feb. 1, 2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAkIwHOSmI4.

4) Kimberly Latrice Jones, #BLM How Can We Win? (May 2020), YOUTUBE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llci8MVh8J4&t=1s

In this second episode of Solarpunking, we ask: what is true freedom, and how do you attain it?

Drawing from the solarpunk ideology, we explore the power of community-driven change, reimagining our relationship with the land, and practical visions for a just, ecologically sound future.

We also respond to a powerful answer from Nine Simone about what freedom meant to her, and listen to the late-great James Baldwin to find hope in his words.

Whether you’re new to solarpunk or already sowing seeds of change, this episode is an invitation to dream boldly and act with intention.

If you want to support the protests this weekend and you are financially able, consider donating to the National Bail Fund Network, National Lawyers Guild, or the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC).

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Sources:

1) Nina: A Historical Perspective (Peter Rodis dir., 1970).

2) "Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" (Alice Smith & Miles Caton, performed in Sinners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2025).

3) Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (Terence Dixon dir., 1970).