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Speaker: Hello listeners and welcome to season two of the book club podcast. I'm Carly. I'm Caroline. This season we're reading solar punk books. Solar punk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions a world with a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The solar part of solar punk represents solar energy as a renewable energy source. It overall has an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate
Speaker: while the punk part of Solarpunk refers to the countercultural, post -capitalist, and decolonial enthusiasm for creating such a future. Also, we now have a substack at bookclubpod .substack .com. Subscribe now and you can join the conversation with other listeners about each episode by leaving comments.
Speaker: Our first book for the season is Ecotopia by Ernest Kalenbach about a part of the United States that split from the country to form Ecotopia, an ecological utopia. The story is about a journalist visiting Ecotopia for the first time in 20 years, where he learns how to genuinely connect with the people around him and his natural self. Our second book, A Psalm for the Wild Built, takes place on a distant planet that formerly was an industrial economy but has since been rewilded.
Speaker: resulting in small, dense, creative villages and towns scattered among towering wilderness. A monk and a robot travel together and ask, what makes a meaningful life? Our third book is The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. Post -Apocalyptic San Francisco has created a whole new society, cooperative, diverse, tolerant, with all four things, fire, earth, air, and water in balance.
Speaker: But an oppressive regime looms in the south and the coming battle will be peace against violence, love against war, and magic against despair. Throughout these books, there's some common questions that we're asking. What makes a good society? How are the sick, the poor, and the old treated?
Speaker: Is there a connection between how the environment is treated and how people are valued? What is the value of a person? What can be owned? And maybe most importantly, what would you be willing to give up for such a new world? Solarpunk is about what is possible and how imagining new societies is the first step to achieving them. Read Ecotopia for our first book discussion to be released next week.
Speaker: You can get your copy of all of the books using our affiliate links in the show notes. Subscribe now and your favorite podcast players so you don't miss a single episode of season two on Solarpunk. Thanks for listening.
