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Solarpunk Presents Podcast

Hello fediverse solarpunks! We’re Solarpunk Presents Podcast, a podcast run on a shoestring budget by two lady solarpunks, one in Canada (@arielkroon) and one in Germany (@xtinadr@wandering.shop). We’re not great with technology, but we happen to both be PhDs from the opposite sides of the spectrum between STEM and Humanities/the Arts, and we’re united in our working towards solarpunk futures.

Our podcast is an interview-style podcast where we talk to guests and each other about various aspects of solarpunk, renewable energies, political action, and more. Often, our guests are people who wouldn’t label themselves as solarpunks, but are (and have been, often for years) quietly involved in working towards making the world a better place to live in. We strongly believe that once you get past the aesthetic and hype about renewables, solarpunk at its core promotes compassion, kinship with non-humans and humans alike, and grace for our fellow human beings as we all work together to survive on our shared planet.

You can support the podcast on Patreon, with tiers starting at just $1 USD! We host a monthly solarpunk hangout that all of our patrons are invited to, and all Patrons at the $3 tier and up receive early access to our episodes. There are more tiers with more extras, so head to patreon.com/solarpunkpresents to see them all. We also take one-time or recurring donations over at our PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt
Even if you’re not in the financial position to donate, we really value other forms of support, such as positive reviews on your podcatcher of choice (it helps us be more visible and reach more solarpunks!), or subscriptions to our YouTube channel and comments there. As writers, we thrive on feedback, and we are continually trying to make the podcast better and want to know what you think.

As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring# compassion #imagination #Future#PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting #ClimateHope #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid

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Good News Community

Scholars re-examined early Welsh poems from the 10th century and found that Merlin, or Myrddin, was portrayed as a nature-connected prophet. This suggests he was an early environmentalist.

These findings emphasize Merlin’s timeless importance as an environmental steward.

@goodnews

#Merlin #Environmentalism #CelticPoetry #GoodNews
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f

The Guardian · Early poems about Merlin portray him as environmentalist, say scholarsBy Steven Morris
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The slogan “Revolution or Death!” is no longer the lyrical expression of consciousness in revolt: rather, it is the last word of the scientific thought of our century. It applies to the perils facing the species as to the inability of individuals to belong. In a society where it is well known that the suicide rate is on the increase, the experts had to admit, reluctantly, that during May 1968 in France it fell to almost nil. That spring also vouchsafed us a clear sky, and it did so effortlessly, because few cars were burnt and the shortage of petrol prevented the others from polluting the air. When it rains, when there are clouds of smog over Paris, let us never forget that it is the government’s fault. Alienated industrial production makes the rain. Revolution makes the sunshine."

e-flux.com/notes/506238/a-sick

e-fluxA Sick Planet - Notes - e-fluxGuy Debord’s prescient 1971 essay about how capitalism is undermining the material basis of life on earth.
#PoliticalEcology#Ecology#Environmentalism
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"n his timely new book, French climate activist Clément Sénéchal argues that the environmental movement itself is also partly to blame. Pourquoi l’écologie perd toujours (Why Environmentalism Always Loses) is a survey of the increased pessimism among ecologists, such as could only be expected from someone who has devoted the first years of his adult life to the cause. The book charts how Sénéchal, a former campaigner with Greenpeace France, lost faith in the multinational NGO — and the broader mode of environmental politics in which such groups are embedded. “As I broach middle age, my generation finds itself in an ontologically degraded natural world, in a negative reality,” Sénéchal writes in the introduction. “We still have our lives to lead, but it seems like they’ll only play out in a continuum of dead-ends.”

For the author, the original sin of political ecology lies in its failure to establish itself as a durable mass movement, picking up where broad-based struggles such as the labor movement, feminism, and anti-racism leave off. Despite ever-present warnings about climate change, environmental politics and policy remain the preserve of well-educated and genteel urban dwellers, the “new ecological class” as the late philosopher Bruno Latour lauded in a recent pamphlet. This demographic’s concern and sense of urgency is undoubtedly sincere. But its domination over the movement’s main organizations — from legacy NGOs such as Greenpeace, Oxfam, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to the tepid Green parties of western Europe — has been politically catastrophic. Since the 1970s, when that organizational ecosystem first took form, environmentalism has diverged from what Sénéchal views as its natural home: in a working-class politics that incorporates the defense of the environment into the critique of capitalism."

jacobin.com/2025/03/environmen

jacobin.comWhy Environmentalists Are Still LosingDissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for their own interests.
#Environmentalism#PoliticalEcology#NGOs
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Pottery by Osa

I’m preparing to offer #OllasByOsa for the first time next weekend and I’m really struggling with pricing. I wish they could be $15 a pop, but I wouldn’t be paying myself a living wage. Ollas are such a great environmental solution, I wish they could be as cheap as possible. Going the #DIY route (prefab terracotta pots & silicone) is the most cost effective but then you’re just buying cheap corporate products manufactured overseas. Artful #environmentalism only for those with $$ is a sad thing.

A rectangular photo in portrait orientation of two unglazed terra-cotta pots with lids sitting in a mulched garden bed in the shade, surrounded by the foliage of nasturtiums and mustards. One pot, the smaller one, is closer to the foreground and in focus while the second larger pot is a bit more blurred in the middle ground. Each pot stands tall and the lids feature carved geometric patterning. The background is a blur of garden foliage including bright orange nasturtium flowers, tree branches and blue sky.
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Solarpunk Presents Podcast

Hello fediverse solarpunks! We’re Solarpunk Presents Podcast, a podcast run on a shoestring budget by two lady solarpunks, one in Canada (@arielkroon) and one in Germany (@xtinadlr). We’re not great with technology, but we happen to both be PhDs from the opposite sides of the spectrum between STEM and Humanities/the Arts, and we’re united in our working towards solarpunk futures.

Our podcast is an interview-style podcast where we talk to guests and each other about various aspects of solarpunk, renewable energies, political action, and more. Often, our guests are people who wouldn’t label themselves as solarpunks, but are (and have been, often for years) quietly involved in working towards making the world a better place to live in. We strongly believe that once you get past the aesthetic and hype about renewables, solarpunk at its core promotes compassion, kinship with non-humans and humans alike, and grace for our fellow human beings as we all work together to survive on our shared planet.

You can support the podcast on Patreon, with tiers starting at just $1 USD! We host a monthly solarpunk hangout that all of our patrons are invited to, and all Patrons at the $3 tier and up receive early access to our episodes. There are more tiers with more extras, so head to patreon.com/solarpunkpresents to see them all. We also take one-time or recurring donations over at our PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt
Even if you’re not in the financial position to donate, we really value other forms of support, such as positive reviews on your podcatcher of choice (it helps us be more visible and reach more solarpunks!), or subscriptions to our YouTube channel and comments there. As writers, we thrive on feedback, and we are continually trying to make the podcast better and want to know what you think.

As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

#Patreon#solarpunk#SolarpunkPresents
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AJ Sadauskas

Action on global warming from toxic fossil fuel pollution:

Economist: The solution to global warming is for consumers to reduce their carbon footprint. If consumers care about stopping global warming, they will pay a premium for lower emissions products and let the free market take care of the rest. Governments shouldn't pick winners, let the market decide.

Consumer: I'm playing my part by reducing my carbon footprint! I just bought a bike, installed solar panels, and went vegan. It's a small impact, but every little bit helps!

Fossil fuel CEO: To grow our profits, we're investing in new oil wells. We're also donating millions to think tanks that spread climate denial, plus lobbyists, plus donations to politicians that favour our industry. And a new plastics factory too. Also, global warming is the fault of consumers for not reducing their carbon footprint and not recycling enough.

Silicon Valley VC: We're investing billions in new blockchain and LLM startups. These will require massive new data centres, with thousands of servers and GPUs. We're reopening old fossil fuel generators and building new ones to power and cool these data centres. Also, our algorithms will promote climate denial content.

#GlobalWarming#ClimateChange#CarbonEmissions
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AJ Sadauskas

@futurebird It was not about eggs in cartons.

It was never about selling eggs in cartons.

Many countries, including Australia, have always tended to sell eggs in cardboard containers rather than styrofoam, without issue.

Like so many other petrochemical products, the issue was the fossil fuel industry's profits.

As for who the real elites are, ExxonMobil's profits are around US$9.2 billion per quarter: reuters.com/business/energy/ex

The environmental activists criticising the fossil fuel industry overwhelmingly earn most of their income from wages, rather than from owning land or capital. Most are in the bottom 90%.

It really is audacious for a corporation that delivers multi-billion-dollar profits to its intergenerationally wealthy capital-owning shareholders every quarter to fund lobbying who claim workers are supposedly the "elites".

Big oil gets away with it because class consciousness is at an all-time low.

I think it's time to start changing that.

#capitalism#environment#environmentalism
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Stan Carey

Important local and national history in this collection of interviews and essays. I thought it might feel repetitious, with the Rossport 5 and their partners all telling essentially the same story, but each brings their own personality, emphases, and interpretation to the saga

The book "Our Story: The Rossport 5", published by Small World Media. The cover has a large photo of the five men walking in a row near the estuary at Rossport in County Mayo, west of Ireland. From left to right: Philip McGrath, Brendan Philbin, Vincent McGrath, Micheál Ó Seighin, and Willie Corduff. Photo by John Monaghan, design by Seanchaí MultiMedia.
#books#history#IrishHistory
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Jürgen Hubert
I have visited the #Harz mountains three times in the last few years. The region is still reeling from droughts and bark beetle plagues which destroyed more than 90% of its vast fir trees, and the landscape often looks desolate.

But to me, the region is also a symbol of #resilience . Yes, the old monocultures are gone - but new growth is already emerging. And in a few decades there will be new forests - different from the ones that had been planted before, but likely better able to withstand future environmental disasters. Nature always finds a way, one way or another, and there is always hope for a better future.

A good lesson for us all.

#nature #landscape #environmentalism
#environmentalism
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KDE

Don't miss Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss' talk at #FOSDEM!

Joseph, community manager of the @be4foss project, will talk about how IT accounts for 2-3% of global CO2 emissions and how FLOSS and moving to a circular economy can help reduce these emissions.

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

#kdeeco #environmentalism

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