Category: Solarpunk Presents podcast

A shot through a library window, showing a line of toy cars (with little painted eyes and expressions) on top of a wooden shelf. Off to the left there is a shelf of rows of books. White text in the bottom right reads "Libraries: A Community Endeavour with Don Gardner"

Solarpunk Presents 2.2

Posted on 2 February 2023

Is there anything more solarpunk than public libraries? Serving at the heart of communities, they’re a place where anyone regardless of income, ability, race, class, or gender can go to read books, listen to music, use the internet, learn things, hear story hour, get out of the weather for a while, and ask librarians for information on just about anything, including what organizations to turn to for additional support in your life or endeavor. In Episode 2 of Season 2 of Solarpunk Presents, Christina talks to Don Gardner, a librarian for many years for the Salinas Public Libraries in Monterey County, California. Hear about how people rescued the library after the city council tried to close it down to save money, about what libraries can do for you and your community, and about what you can do for your local library.

Image of the top half of an A-frame old brick building covered in ivy. Bottom half of the picture has white text that reads "Urban Versus Rural Solarpunk"

Solarpunk Presents: Season Two

Posted on 24 January 2023

Solarpunk Presents explores the people and projects working on bringing us a better world today. In this podcast, hosts Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha interview people who are doing work in the here and now that will help us get to a solarpunk future and talk to each other about the visions of a sustainable equitable future integral to solarpunk and about issues we’re curious about within the movement or genre of solarpunk.