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Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast

Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast

Written by: Justine Norton-Kertson
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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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Episodes
  • Has Solarpunk Become Too Aesthetic?
    May 4 2026
    On this episode of Demand Utopia, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses the balance between aesthetics and politics in the solarpunk genre.

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    28 mins
  • Housing Is Solarpunk's Genre Test
    May 4 2026

    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’t house people, then it’s not serious.



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    30 mins
  • No Borders, No Barriers
    Apr 27 2025
    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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    30 mins
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