Solarpunk Presents

Hi! This is the summary of November to December 19, 2025 where we discuss boys at airports, shooting your shot, some people wanting things to be free or moneyless, airplane movies, being tired of working, new year meanings, and a post-publishing edit to correct a date and celebrate 1 year of Carbon Neutral Striking. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral...

Hey everyone, special episode update from the world of 'The Stellar', an institution dedicated to mental health, traditions, spirituality and lunarpunk ideals! This world is an imagining of what the future can be. However it also imagines the present too. Take a trip through time and please, know that we try to handle these topics as respectfully as we can while also telling a compelling story. We...

Hi! This is the summary of Oct 10, 2025 to Oct 31, 2015 where we discuss saline aquifers, chatting too much, Hurricane Melissa, a rat in the house due to unprocessed plastic bricks and more. Small post-publishing edit for clarity. CW: Unaliving I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been...

Hi! This is the summary of days 161 to Oct 10, 2025 where we discuss buying game assets, working with AI, compensating education which of course has a footprint, money as a wildcard, witnessing earth's damage during travel, the kids are alright, and boycotting companies that support fascist creep. CW: Unaliving I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Stri...

Hi! This is the summary of days 131 to 160 where we discuss tentacle tech for water perfomances, island french toast, psychic?, AI servitude and the new abortion debate, chatting too much, short break, reuniting with a friend, 666 as a sign of excess, and trying to program games. And an edit on 13 April 2026 to add the missing day 143 about Putin's war. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I h...

The Stellar Lunarpunk TTRPG Live Action Roleplay (LARP) Virtual gathering and Real Life Planting! The eco quest is Pollination, planting food and pollinator friendly plants in the world of The Stellar. Gather points for planting according to your character’s number and earn new story snippets with your points, buy choices, and use our custom lunarpunk tarot cards to guide your way through choices...

Hi! This is the summary of days 121 to 130 where we discuss nukes on the moon or whitehouse pretty much being unacceptable so get that guy out of office please. That's the most relevant thing. CW: 'R' word. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been posting daily updates since Earth Day,...

Hi! This is the summary of days 111 to 120 where we discuss inventions and archive footprints, wind-powered stop-sign flags that capture wind from passing cars, weed and hypocrisy, communal benefits at work, levels of reason, desire to break out full Carbon Neutral mode, the repo man/person, CW: suicidal ideation, songs to say goodbye, quitting university, Tuvalu going under water, friends racism...

Hi! This is the summary of days 101 to 110 where we discuss wasps, process, the world not having to make sense, my manifesto, debt, Jamaican industries mostly being care related and servitude, the more you pollute the more you earn, video games not being accessible, neurodiversity and feelings of telepathy, body feeding my cake to ants, climate change is murder just like meat is murder, no wooden/...

Hi! This is the summary of days 91 to 100 where we discuss respecting those killing us all, leading by example, embarrassment, now not later, omens, earth and ecofeminism, labour theory of value LTV, illegal to leak trade secrets up to 10 years but perfectly legal to render someone homeless or watch someone starve and 100 days of striking! I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carry...

Hi! This is the summary of days 81 to 90 where we discuss jam sessions, mondegreens, philosophers, body positivity and how our past can shape our physical form, stories of a world without war for a time, music that revives and more. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been posting dail...

Hi! This is the summary of days 71 to 80 where we discuss sweatsuits of the future, flat hierarchies, my workplace playing with my money, going to jam sessions, earnestness and issues even on the left, anti-environmentalists and the punishment for putting an entire planet in peril, Direct Democracy, Americans (US) negotiating with their homegrown terrorists (bigots and racial separatists), needing...

Hi! This is the summary of days 61 to 70 where we discuss critters and critter control, coding games, spinning plates, missing my pet, performing badly on TV, the expenses of modern life, looks versus real, saying 'lol' and trying not to cringe when I hear it loool, solarpunk answers to the polycrisis, and more. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Str...

Hi! This is the summary of days 51 to 60 where we discuss plastic-free shopping, tasty salad tests, performing on TV (and not being good at it), the true cost, protesting but still serving the system by driving with fossil fuels to get there, manifestos and omens, sentencing the exploiters of the planet, 666 in my payslip and the way watermelon should be. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I...

Hi! This is the summary of days 41 to 50 where we discuss not wanting to worship nature, natural remedies and skepticism, self promo or pride? Speaking life through stories, being the Avatar, Freudian Slips, ants trying to keep me from cheating on the strike, Instinct Trust, trying my hand at programming, textiles having memory and traumatic experiences, the illusion of choice and the need for a C...

Hi! This is the summary of days 31 to 40 where we discuss the right to land, access to food and water, fair wages, self-censorship and cancel culture, billionaire bosses, my swollen lymph node, reputation economies, alternative currencies and bubbles, rights to life, solar generators, blood, National Housing Trust, Permaculture’s slave problem, weird rituals, and 1.5 to Stay Alive. I’m Aleya, and...

This is the summary of days 21 to 30 of my Carbon Neutral Strike where we discuss eco porn, socialist mental healthcare, becoming someone who can go to work everyday (ish), Climate Sins, and Parseltongue. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been posting daily updates since Earth Day, A...

This is the summary of days 11 to 20 where we discuss Elon Musk’s obscene wealth, scams and the lack of access to payment portals in Jamaica, Direct Democracy possibilities, welfare and leisure, LPG gas in Jamaica and a salad recipe at the end. I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been...

Hey Solarpunk Presents listeners, my name is Aleya Jobson. While your regular listening material is on hiatus, I thought I would pop in and provide some material of my own that have accumulated since April 22, 2025. Starting Earth Day 2025 I commenced or recommenced, rather, my Carbon Neutral Strike and Challenge, where at least one choice per day avoids needless oil, gas or plastic. During the pr...

We’re back! (Kind of…) In this episode, Ariel interviews Aleya Jobson about gamifying climate action with the Fastfrwrd website, where people can be rewarded for positive climate actions in their own lives. They also discuss Aleya’s Carbon Neutral Strike: how Aleya started it, how it’s going, and its pros and cons. Starting next week, Aleya will be taking over the feed with reflections on her Carb...

In today’s episode, Ariel chats with Joseph Brannan about sustainability workshop series at the Kitchener Public Library, unionizing library workers, and bringing solarpunk into the sustainability conversation. Links: Everyday Permaculture by Anna Matilda Waterloo Region Nature Building for people : designing livable, affordable, low-carbon communities by Michael Eliason Low Tech Magazine article...

We like to think that a rising tide lifts all boats. But, according to Stanford University historian Dr. Walter Scheidel, wealth and income inequality have almost always only grown drastically toward the maximum level a society can sustain in times of peace and prosperity. Instead, as he outlined in his book The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty...

Cory Doctorow’s 2017 novel Walkaway has a reputation in solarpunk circles as a great example of a solarpunk lifestyle, and a must-read book for everyone from the individual who lives and breathes solarpunk to the solarpunk-curious to general science fiction fans. But what is it about Walkaway that gives it solarpunk cred? Ariel and Christina ponder this, discussing features of the novel that could...

In this episode, Ariel talks with BrightFlame: witch, workshop leader, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Design at Columbia University, and author of solarpunk witchcraft short stories and now a new novel, called The Working . They discuss what solarpunk witchcraft looks like and how, though witchcraft’s manipulation of energy on the astral plane is extremely important, magic is only one ha...

In this episode, Christina talks to Dr Gabriel Filippelli - one of the first scientists to have a running project canceled by the Trump administration. This fascinating interview reveals just how important internationally and domestically these American grants can be, and Dr Filippelli passionately describes this unprecedented attack on science and education and what we all lose when the work that...