<p>Loved the Superman (2025) movie and looking for more #punk hope? 👩‍🎤 You've come to the right place! Listen to this episode to learn all about the punk of #solarpunk, where it came from, and how it differs (in a very good way!) from other -punk genres like #cyberpunk and #steampunk 😎🤙 Kindness and optimism, with a dash of #sustainability, are officially IN!☀️🫶💛</p><p><br /></p><p>Episode Time Stamps:</p><p>0:00 Episode intro1:36 What even is 'punk'? Definitions</p><p>14:52 Punk in Solarpunk vs punk adjacent genres</p><p>35:00 Towards a punk-i-fied future</p><p>41:14 Good news segment</p><p><br /></p><p>Want More? Here are some of the things we spoke about in this episode that we recommend:</p><p>- Punk Identities, Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media edited by Matt Grimes</p><p>- “Solarpunk” &amp; the Pedagogical Value of Utopia" by Isaijah Johnson (https://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/solarpunk-the-pedagogical-value-of-utopia_2020_05/)</p><p>- Where is the Punk in Solarpunk? Questioning Tradition and Innovation in an Eco-optimist Digital Aesthetic? by Théo Maligeay (https://hal.science/hal-04295131v2/document)</p><p>- Global cyberpunk: Reclaiming utopia in Japanese cyberpunk film by Sasha Myerson (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/sfftv.2020.21)</p><p>- Planting Seeds of Hope: A Survey of Solarpunk Futures by Dilan Guner</p><p>- Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto by Adam Flynn (https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/)</p><p><br /></p><p>Good News Stories:</p><p>https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/17/clean-energy-from-rain-scientists-generate-electricity-from-falling-droplets</p><p>https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/infant-rare-incurable-disease-first-successfully-receive-personalized-gene-therapy-treatment</p><p><br /></p><p>#scicomm #popculture #radicaloptimism #kindness</p>