solarpunk

Camerados - We’re the public living room people. (camerados.org)

I made some new art for the game – sort of a recruiting poster for the Civil Defense. (slrpnk.net)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7878389...

Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer (beforewegoblog.com)

Tribal engineering student [Sorry I don't know how to link to the video rather than reddit link] (www.reddit.com)

A society where we accept indigenous lifestyle as peers is a great part of solarpunk.

Tools for solarpunk speculation (solarpunkstories.substack.com)

From citizen science to ‘Legos of the revolution’ this guest post prompts ways to imagine better futures

What would education in a SolarPunk society look like to you?

Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world....

A Society That Lost Focus (ploum.net)

except for the ‘‘new experiences’’ sentence it’s a lovely article :)

Convincing: How do you convince the unconvincable?

Often we dig our own grave making people “defend” their opinion. Instead of winning them over, we push them to become more and more entrenched in their opinion as they build larger mental defenses against the challenges we present. So I want to hear from you:...

The remaking of the American jean | what makes a pair of jeans more or less sustainable (www.washingtonpost.com)

Some of you might be interested to know that wearing raw denim and babying it for fades by never washing it is actually the most ecologically sustainable thing you can do 😆

I'm looking for recommendations that have a specific tone

I’m looking for books, games, movies, etc. that are set in a relatable, high-tech post-capitalist solarpunk world....

Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative (ibis.wiki)

maybe we could use this to collect guerilla gardening strategies or something?

Raspberry Pi-powered AI camera assesses cars and driver behaviors in blind spots (www.raspberrypi.com)

This is one of those things that wouldn’t exist in a fully realized solarpunk world, but might be useful during a transition....

U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest (www.nbcnews.com)

Archive link...

Inspiration for world-building for a novel set in a Solarpunk world

I want to write a novel that takes place sometime in the latter half of this century (let’s say 2075), where the premise is that we’ve more or less achieved what could be described as a Solarpunk society globally, albeit not a perfect utopia. I am just an amateur, so don’t hold your breath for the next literary...

[Vox article on post-scarcity] A utopian strand of economic thought is making a surprising comeback (www.vox.com)

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

More character art from Fully Automated! I'm really proud of the art and concept for this character. (slrpnk.net)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7550276...

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June (www.youtube.com)

Enjoyed this short story: The Stillout by Andrew Dana Hudson (www.ltu.se)

Kohei Saito’s “Start From Scratch” Degrowth Communism | if taken seriously, it would lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement | Jacobin (jacobin.com)

Degrowth is a popular concept among solarpunks. This Jacobin article discusses some of its flaws from a Marxist standpoint. In particular, Jacobin reminds us an interpretation of Marxism which blames the Western working class for exploiting the Global South, and lectures the ever-more-exploited Western worker on the need to...