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From gazing at the night sky while sleeping on her family’s rooftop in Palestine, to buying her first telescope on eBay in seventh grade (for the sky-high bid of $100), to earning her degree in astrophysics and becoming a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, Abuisnaineh has spent much of her life looking up. During the partial...
On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will be able to see a rare celestial occurrence: a total solar eclipse....
A bioluminescent petunia could help people recognize plants for the complex creatures they are.
An eerie glow has been emanating from Wales’ forests and rockpools for the country’s annual dark skies week....
Big news: I’ve signed with Water Dragon Publishing to bring you my debut lunarpunk novel, The Working! I look forward to you meeting the coven who must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we all need. Expected launch: Summer 2024....
Consumers in the United States can now pre-order a genetically engineered plant for their home or garden that glows continuously. At a base cost of US$29.00, residents of the 48 contiguous states can get a petunia (Petunia hybrida) with flowers that look white during the day; but, in the dark, the plant glows a faint green....
Brightflame, whose upcoming workshop Learning From the Elements still has slots open, wrote about lunarpunk in a past blog post:...
I live in the US where aging is shameful, grieving is rude, and death is commodified. I don’t think this perspective should be carried over. So, how could solarpunks do things differently?...
The one-of-a-kind glow-in-the-dark playground Joya at Oran Good Park in Texas is now officially open. City officials at Farmers Branch, a town just 20 minutes outside Dallas, welcomed the public to the 18,000-square-foot park on Saturday, January 20....
On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY and co-EIC of Solarpunk Magazine. They discuss what lunarpunk is in contrast to solarpunk, what inspired Justine to put together an anthology of lunarpunk fiction, and a sneak peek at some of the...
With their roots in science fiction, solarpunk and lunarpunk started off as subcultures of this genre, shaping the aesthetic of stories about the future and how technology could improve our lives. Solarpunk has a strong environmental connection with images of green cities, sustainable tech, and linear, waste-free cycles....
Today Ariel sits down with Navarre Bartz to talk about solarpunk spirituality. Solarpunk’s emphasis on respecting and valuing human and non-human life includes the totality of a being’s existence, and that includes the “squishy bits” of the experience that we can’t quite quantify. Navarre recently hosted a series of...
What happens in the ecocommunity when the sun goes down?...
a sideblog by The Carbon Coast | In Solvoid, the sun stays below the horizon—the moon’s light charges plants which glow beneath a veil of mysterious characters from witches, street gangs, gamblers and beyond.|...
This is part of a new feature where Solarpunk Presents brings you a bonus chat every month on different topic decided by our Patrons....
To Know the Dark...
As we are approaching the winter time with the solstice, I find myself wondering what to you is Lunarpunk in the winter time? What is something you add to the aesthetic in your eyes?
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A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere.
“Yes, The Matrix Resurrections creates what is—at least in my estimation—a decidedly lunarpunk world and brings the budding aesthetic and subgenre to the big screen, if not for the first time, then at least in the most high profile example to date.”
I have recently read Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, which is a wonderful look into a Solarpunk world. However, an important critique that the book emphasizes is that this new Solarpunk society (or, well, an Anarchist society really) has produced a ‘tyranny of bureaucracy’ and a number of social pressures that stifle...
Recent entry in the “Solarpunk Spirituality” series by Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner. Links to the rest of the series including “The Nonbinary Nature of Solarpunk/Lunarpunk” can be found here as well....
The fight against light pollution seems relevant to this community. The International Dark Sky Association has a lot of good information for people who are just starting to learn about this issue. Light pollution has many impacts on wildlife and the environment, but it also keeps us from being able to see the stars. I think...
Lunarpunk is a more tentative, lesser-defined aesthetic. It is regarded as the sibling aesthetic of Solarpunk. It embraces spirituality and utopian futures, referencing witchcraft, futuristic design, nature, renewable energy, and the circle of life.
