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Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast
Justine Norton-Kertson
Frequency: 1 episode/36d. Total Eps: 49
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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The Heat Index is a Labor Standard
Season 6 · Episode 19
mercredi 24 juin 2026 • Duration 24:17
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson looks how extreme heat is changing the way World Cup matches are played, and asked why those same protections aren't afforded to all working people.
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News Articles and Other Sources
Study warns of dangerous heat at 2026 World Cup as climate risks grow
World Cup puts urban heat risk in the spotlight
Mexico, Italy and others see up to two more months of heat stress than in the 1970s, study says
Two World Cup matches were played in ‘severe heat’, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/19/world-cup-matches-severe-heat-level-analysis
Hydration breaks affect game more than I initially thought, says England's Tuchel
Heat at work: Implications for safety and health
https://www.ilo.org/publications/heat-work-implications-safety-and-health
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Hurricane Season and the Myth of the Evacuation Order
Season 6 · Episode 18
lundi 22 juin 2026 • Duration 38:08
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, we have part 3 of our series on Disaster Prep as Community Care. We’re talking about hurricanes, flooding, storm surge, power outages, the myth of the evacuation order, and we continue our conversation about what solarpunk disaster prep and response look like.
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Climate Action Is Not Charity
Season 6 · Episode 9
lundi 25 mai 2026 • Duration 23:45
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses the recent UN General Assembly vote on climate action and the idea that climate aid isn’t charity or leverage in political negotiations, but instead, is an obligation.
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SOURCES AND LINKS
News Articles on the UN Vote:
UN Resolution Text: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4113865/files/A_80_L.65-EN.pdf
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/187
ICJ Advisory Opinion: https://icj-web.leman.un-icc.cloud/sites/default/files/case-related/187/187-20250723-adv-01-00-en.pdf
Columbia Law Blog Articles:
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Coming This Summer
dimanche 24 mai 2026 • Duration 00:58
When disaster comes, the fantasy says: run, hide, protect your own. But real survival has never worked that way. When the smoke rolls in, when the floodwaters rise, when the power fails, when the evacuation order comes too late—what saves people isn't a bunker. It’s a neighbor with a spare room, a phone tree, a ride across town, a community center with clean air, a pantry built for sharing, and a plan that includes everyone.
This summer on Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, we’re talking about disaster prep as mutual aid, community care, and the infrastructure of survival.
Because no one survives alone.
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Can a River Have Rights?
Season 6 · Episode 8
samedi 23 mai 2026 • Duration 29:04
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses local, national, and international efforts to grant legal rights to nature.
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SOURCES AND LINKS
Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights
Full ballot measure language: https://www.protectlanecountywatersheds.org/read_ordinance
The ballot measure explained: https://oregonvotes.gov/voters-guide-military/Measure20-373Explanatory.html
Arguments in favor: https://oregonvotes.gov/voters-guide-military/Measure20-373ArgInFavor.html
Arguments opposed: https://oregonvotes.gov/voters-guide-military/Measure20-373ArgOppose.html
General Rights of Nature Sources
"Should Trees Have Standing" by Christopher D. Stone: https://southerncalifornialawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Christopher-D.-Stone-Should-Trees-Have-Standing_%E2%80%94Toward-Legal-Rights-for-Natural-Objects-45-S.-CAL.-L.-REV.-450-1972..pdf
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: https://www.garn.org/rights-of-nature
Case Studies
Tamaqua, Pennsylvania: https://celdf.org/2015/08/tamaqua-borough
Toledo, Ohio: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/03/06/lake-erie-bill-rights-federal-court-unconstitutional
Orange County, Florida: https://aldf.org/article/legal-rights-recognized-for-rivers-in-florida-and-quebec
Grant Township, Pennsylvania: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13062023/pennsylvania-fracking-wastewater-injection-wells
New Zealand: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2017/7/en/latest/#DLM6831462
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The Energy Transition Has a Mining Problem
Season 6 · Episode 7
lundi 18 mai 2026 • Duration 28:12
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson examines the energy transition's dependency on mining and imagines what a solarpunk energy transition would do differently.
G7 trade talks target critical minerals as US-EU tariff rift strains unity
France convenes G7 on critical minerals to curb China's grip
The energy transition has a rare earth problem
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AI Has a Body
Season 6 · Episode 6
mercredi 13 mai 2026 • Duration 26:37
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about AI and what it costs us, our communities, and our planet, then imagines what public computational infrastructure and solarpunk data centers might look like.
Reuters Articles
AEP raises capital plan to $78 billion as data center power demand skyrockets
Duke Energy Tops Profit, Revenue Estimates Rate Recovery, Weather Boost
US power use to beat record highs in 2026 and 2027 as AI use surges, EIA says
Other Cited Sources
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/duke-energy-earnings-anderson-gas-plant/819428/
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Why Are Hopeful Stories Still So Hard to Write?
Season 6 · Episode 5
lundi 11 mai 2026 • Duration 23:00
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson explores why hopeful stories are still so hard to write, and offers tools and suggestions to help creators shift their thinking and open up new possibilities beyond dystopia.
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The Grid is a Care System
Season 6 · Episode 4
jeudi 7 mai 2026 • Duration 19:19
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson discusses power outages as a matter of life and death for millions of people who rely on electricity to power their medical devices, making the case that we should understand the electric grid as a care system and build collective systems of support rather than relying on personal preparedness.
The Invading Sea - "Power outages can threaten the lives of medical device users – knowing who is most at risk will help cities respond"
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The Solarpunk Case for a Working Class Climate Agenda
Season 6 · Episode 3
mercredi 6 mai 2026 • Duration 16:00
On this episode of the Demand Utopia podcast from Solapunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson takes a look at a recent article from The Guardian about a proposal from the Climate and Community Institute called “Stop Greed, Build Green,” and uses it as a launching point to make the case for a working-class climate agenda.
The Guardian article
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/climate-crisis-working-class-economy
The Climate and Community Institute's "Stop Greed, Build Green: A Working Class Climate Agenda"
https://stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/agenda
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