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Clean Air Is Climate Infrastructure
On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson continues the discussion about wildfire and smoke from earlier this week, but from the angle of clean air as public infrastructure rather than from the perspective of small community disaster preparedness.
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Wildfires are making the US smoggy again, reversing progress on cleaner air, study finds
Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed3197
NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-funded-study-shows-wildfire-smokes-hidden-ozone-toll
Wildfire smoke has reversed US progress toward ozone air quality, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/04/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-ozone
The Clean Air Act 101
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American Lung Association State of the Air Report
https://www.lung.org/research/sota
Science in Action: How to Build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box
https://engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science-action-how-build-corsi-rosenthal-box
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25. Public Housing Is Climate Infrastructure
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23. Communication After the Signal Dies
46:50||Season 6, Ep. 23On this episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast from Solarpunk Magazine, host Justine Norton-Kertson continues our series on Disaster Prep as Community Care with part 5, on building layered communications networks to make your neighborhood more resilient during disasters.Website: https://solarpunkmagazine.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/solarpunkmagOur Social MediaBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/solarpunklitmag.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/solarpunklitmagTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@solarpunklitmagFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/solarpunklitmag
22. Suppression Is Not Adaptation
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21. Building Community Resilience Hubs
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