Due to personal issues, Christina couldn't take part in the original interview with Andy Gross about the solarpunk role playing game Fully Automated! that made up S6E2. But she had questions. In this episode, she had a chance to ask them. Before you grab your dice and download the game (for free!) at <a href="https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/</a>&nbsp;have a listen!

There's More to Explore: Diving Deeper Into Fully Automated! a Solarpunk RPG, With Andy Gross

Across the USA, the far right candidates have been getting themselves elected to local and county school boards. Their goals include financially choking public schools by diverting government funds toward charter schools, often religious in orientation. Tune in to hear what Dr Sam Myovich, retired history teacher turned school board candidate campaign field coordinator, has to say about what’s at stake, the far right’s deployment of fascist tactics in their fight to destroy public education, and what we ordinary citizens can do to fight back against them, save our schools, and protect our very democracy itself.

Fighting the Far Right's Attack on Public Education with Dr Sam Myovitch

Join us for a conversation with Rev. Nora Jacob on a better way to dispense justice than to subject offenders to a strictly brutal prison experience. A way that, by recognizing that hurt people hurt people, aims to empower, not just victims, but also offenders, to heal. This isn’t just showing mercy to incarcerated people, it significantly lowers the chances that they’ll end up back in prison after their release. That's a win for us all.

Restorative Justice & Reconciliation with Rev. Nora Jacob

In this week’s episode,&nbsp;Ariel quizzes guest Dr Tiffany Millacci about emotional literacy. What is this relatively new phrase? How can being emotionally literate help us to navigate difficult conversations, awkward interactions, or even generally just having relationships in the first place? Isn’t all this talk of emotions just a different way for the self-help industry to get us to buy stuff?&nbsp; Join us for a fascinating conversation about a complex topic - we barely skim the surface! But never fear, Dr Millacci has your back; listen in for some good places to start learning more. Links: <ul><li>Dr Millacci's <a href="https://positivepsychology.com/team/tiffany-millacci/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">author profile</a> on<a href="https://positivepsychology.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> positivepsychology.com</a></li><li>Emotional literacy in the context of <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/how-strong-is-your-emotional-literacy-8699380" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">applying it to relationships</a></li><li><a href="https://positivepsychology.com/emotional-maturity/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emotional literacy vs emotional maturity</a></li></ul>

Emotional Literacy with Dr Tiffany Millacci

On this episode of the podcast, Ariel chats with Dr Tanis MacDonald about her upcoming course in winter 2025 on hopepunk. What exactly is so punk about this kind of hope? Can hopepunk even be said to be a genre in its own right, or is it an aesthetic or lens that we can use to think through just why the characters are deciding to have hope in bleak situations?&nbsp; Tune in for recommendations of hopepunk novels (and poetry!), ruminations on political hope, the centrality of relationships and radical empathy to these stories, and more. Plus some academic theories informing the formulations of hope, of course.&nbsp; Links:<ul><li><a href="http://www.tanismacdonald.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tanis MacDonald | Author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female</a></li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/34B5AzaEIAnBZ83QtlUAJm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watershed Writers with Tanis MacDonald | Podcast on Spotify</a></li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hopepunk, explained: the storytelling trend that weaponizes optimism | Vox</a></li><li><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3645022.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Companion Species Manifesto</a></li><li><a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/u/uk/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction</a></li><li><a href="https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-two/reframing-ecocriticism-narratives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">S2.9 Reframing Narratives With Ecocriticism, With Dr Jenny Kerber</a></li></ul>

6.5: Teaching Hopepunk Fiction with Dr Tanis MacDonald

If you’re a no-kill animal shelter or an animal rescue group and you’ve got more rescue animals than kennels to keep them in, or you’ve got dogs or cats with health or behavioral problems that need sorting out to make the beasts adoptable, what are you going to do? You’re going to call an animal fosterer like Rena Curtis to take that animal in, de-traumatize it, teach it some manners, and get its health problems sorted out so it can go a-courtin’ its forever people. Tune in as we discuss this hard, sometimes frightening, occasionally heart-wrenching, but ultimately satisfying work, why there are so many more dogs and cats than homes to put them in, and what we can do to change that situation. &nbsp;You can follow Rena on Instagram at @sockmonkeylove33To learn more about the animal rescue organizations she has fostered for, visit <a href="https://www.yavapaihumanetrappers.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.yavapaihumanetrappers.org/</a> and <a href="https://yavapaihumane.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://yavapaihumane.org/</a>

The Challenges and Joys of Fostering Rescue Animals: With Rena Curtis

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia … of sorts. RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more. Art used in episode cover is by https://patreon.com/seanbodley and... Links: You can find Fully Automated at <a href="https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/</a>The Sogorea Te Land Trust: <a href="https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/</a>Solarpunk 2050: <a href="http://solarpunk2050.de/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://solarpunk2050.de/</a>&nbsp;Solarpunk Pioneers Fund: <a href="http://solarpunk-pioneers.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://solarpunk-pioneers.org/</a>&nbsp;Coyote &amp; Crow: <a href="https://coyoteandcrow.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://coyoteandcrow.net/</a>&nbsp;Lunar Echos: <a href="https://affinity-games.itch.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://affinity-games.itch.io/</a>&nbsp;Neon Black: <a href="https://notwriting.itch.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://notwriting.itch.io/</a>&nbsp;Legacy: Life Among the Ruins: <a href="https://ufopress.co.uk/legacy-life-among-the-ruins/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ufopress.co.uk/legacy-life-among-the-ruins/</a>&nbsp;Fighting for the Future: <a href="https://www.android-press.com/product-page/fighting-for-the-future-ebook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.android-press.com/product-page/fighting-for-the-future-ebook</a>&nbsp;“Murder in the Tool Library” by AE Marling: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-in-the-tool-library-a-e-marling/1144354144" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-in-the-tool-library-a-e-marling/1144354144</a>&nbsp;“Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto” by Aaron Bastani: <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.versobooks.com/products/476-fully-automated-luxury-communism</a>&nbsp;“Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” by Peter Fraise: <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures</a>

6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG, with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents Podcast, Ariel chats with Selena Middleton, Publisher and Editor of Stelliform Press, all about publishing eco-fiction. What is eco-horror, and how does it relate to solarpunk fiction? What are the hallmarks of a good solarpunk story, according to Selena? How does history fit into visions of the future, and what does character have to do with it? Join us as we discuss all this and more. Links:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.stelliform.press" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stelliform Press website</a><a href="https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/kern-depart-depart/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Depart! Depart! by Sim Kern</a><a href="https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/another-life-by-sarena-ulibarri/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri</a><a href="https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/green-fuse-burning/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris</a><a href="https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/the-house-of-drought-by-dennis-mombauer/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer</a>

6.2: Publishing Eco-horror & Solarpunk with Selena Middleton of Stelliform Press

Now streaming: some hot takes from your solarpunk aunties. Ariel and Christina consider why wallowing in negative feelings is just so delicious ... as opposed to wallowing in, you know, acts of kindness and feelings of compassion, which are just a bit more solarpunk. We live in an age of outrage, it seems: cancelling, social media mobbing, cyberbullying ... but also drawing attention to human rights violations, or dodgy political happenings, or just straight-up illegal goings-on! How can we tell whether our outrage is justified or not? How can we avoid emotional manipulation? Can we think of outrage as a solarpunk tool? Links: <ul><li><a href="https://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/its-not-what-you-think-affect-theory-and-power-take-to-the-stage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What is Affect Theory?</a></li><li><a href="https://positivepsychology.com/emotional-literacy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cultivating Emotional Literacy</a></li></ul>

How Dare Solarpunks Do OUTRAGE?!!! Ariel & Christina Discuss

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Solarpunk Presents is a podcast that explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. Solarpunk is more than just an idea, more than just an aesthetic. Those inspire us, but where do we go from there? How do we put the values and visions described in solarpunk fiction and art into action in the here and now? What does that look like, translated into the reality of our present moment, into the places and spaces where we’re at? Hosts Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha are producing podcast episodes featuring interviews with people working to make the world a better place right now, as well as discussions of solarpunk, DIY, aesthetic, housing, and more. Join us as we explore what #solarpunk looks like in the present. The best way to reach us is to email us at solarpunkpresents at gmail dot com or on our socials: <a href="https://www.solarpunkpresents.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Website</a>: https://www.solarpunkpresents.com<a href="https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkpresents" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon:</a> https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkpresents<a href="https://climatejustice.rocks/@solarpunkpresents " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mastodon:</a> https://climatejustice.social/@solarpunkpresents<a href="https://www.instagram.com/solarpunkpr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram:</a> https://www.instagram.com/solarpunkpr<a href="https://www.facebook.com/solarpunkpresentspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook:</a> https://www.facebook.com/solarpunkpresentspodcast<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEdVsigLYIx9f2aTUu6scw?sub_confirmation=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube:</a> https://www.youtube.com/@solarpunkpresents<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunkpresentspodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tumblr</a>: https://www.tumblr.com/solarpunkpresentspodcast

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