#40: Solarpunk utopias and benevolent AI

Jonathan Widder | Posted on January 20, 2026 |

The solarpunk movement creates utopias of how the future might look if humanity succeeded in solving major contemporary challenges. Jeremy Dela Rosa and Nico Shi are part of it. In this episode, they tell us why the world needs new utopias that are open to technological progress, and how they connect communal living with benevolent AI.

Hosts: Ed Crasnick, Jonathan Widder. Editing: Leon Wolf

The Squirrel News Podcast

A German Journalist and a Jewish Comic discuss the latest and greatest solution based news stories from around the world. A podcast about the amazing, wildly creative things people are doing to solve our biggest social problems today – from goats helping to fight wildfires to prisons without wardens and guns.

Hosts: Ed Crasnick, Jonathan Widder

Tags: solutions, society, sustainability, social innovation, solutions journalism, constructive journalism.