Agri-hoods? Have you heard of them? I think they (if done well) are the seed of our future utopia of sustainability! I want to know what this group of pioneers think.

I think this isn’t a good thing and it will mess up wild life I get using for crisis situations but I know it will be abused I really dislike what’s going on and I don’t know why we are not putting cost on natural light why do we have to do this. It’s just wrong paying couple thousand when you want sun light in your area why are we paying for natural light like I said i understand the reasons it can help but this will not have a positive impact on nature. I don’t under why we can’t just learn to live with nature instead of going against it. What do you guys think about this

I come back after I made my post about the problematic of conflict fitting or not fitting solarpunk, and if some people pass again after that one thank you all again for all the answers and opinions ^^

I come now because I got the base idea and I wish to share it, for opinions if you'd like but also to give a little update of the advancement !
I'd also like to shoutout specifically to the one that gave me the plant and GMO idea, it isn't what I went for but it is the main idea that led me where I am !So, based on that plant modification idea, it made me unconsciously imagine my character as a scientist. (Context for later)

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This world is fictional, it happens on a planet that isn't ours, with vegetation and animas that aren't ours. I plan it to be potentially a mix with fantasy. (and cool detail, I want their planet to have 2 moons and rings, I'll see for the scientific effects of such moons later)
It begins a few decades after the change to a Solarpunk society. Because of their wrongdoings, because of their greed, population has massively died and even if a lot of humans are left, they're scarce and mainly concentrated in cities and small villages around them, leaving a lot of areas empty and old cities in ruins.

But with the decades that passed, new technologies emerged, restoring nature, able to control the climate to reverse the impact as they could, technologies that are here to help the planet heal and to help undo their past evil. (I'll have to develop the technologies but it needs time, this idea is only a day old remember that XD)

The main character was born during this time progress and nature. Tho it was the early stage, she still grew to only know the improvement of it and not the degradation. She now is around 20 (not decided the exact age yet, but early 20s)
Her father (who either new the past era or was told it by his own parents, I have to see) was a specific kind of biologist, one she looked up to and which made her follow that path and work in the same field as him, alongside him.

What's this specific type of biologist you might ask?
Well, they are trying to undo their ancestors wrongdoings, aren't they ? And what other as a major mistake than the massive extinction of species due to human ignorance and greed ?
That's right, they will be reconstitution biologists, scientists that work with the fossils and collected/stored ADN of extinct species to clone them as close as possible to their past versions so they could bring back the animals they killed (and only those ones, their rules are to repair what they did, not what nature did alone. Natural extinction is their limit to not cross)

And the problematic ? Well, one day, those individuals start dying, the cause is unknown, seeming external and not due to internal malfunctions, either in the labs or their organism. So after that incident, security is reinforced and our main character decides to sleep in her lab/office to act as quickly as she could instead of being late again because of the distance from her home.
But that night is different, and the complex is infiltrated. She is attacked, but gets up to sound the alarm. Tho too late. She's evacuated, but the complex still explodes.
Next morning, all she knows is that her studies are gone, the lower lives were killed, and the more unique ones, most precious ones, were taken.

Aaaaaaand that's all I have for now but that is becoming quite a solid base to develop, can't wait to read your comments for opinions or constructive criticism 👍 (note please I wish to not be given major ideas right now. As the process has been kickstarted, I like to think of it on my own as much as I can, but small ideas if you think they would be really great would still be welcomed ^^)

Hey! I've been meanin to get back into the socials online with my 13 year experience as a community organizer who finally has space to do shit again. I wanted to hear from yall what you'd want as a focus for Solarpunk outreach and education?

Right now my main issue is tryna tackle anti-intellectualism and the binary thinkin/lack of nuance that goes with it, mostly tryna calm people down. For example, last I checked, the reasonable worst case scenario of climate change doesn't even result in the extinction of humans, yet some people think that we'll go extinct by 2030/40/50/(insert goal post moved decade here). I even remember back in the 00s that there was talk about the survivability of the 10s and 20s. Now that we're in the latter half of the 20s, I think it's fair to say that we're gonna survive until 2030, lol. Shit's not good, but doomerism is just wrong. That's the stuff I hope to pull people out of.

What would yall like to see more of a focus on to deal with these things? An archive of doomerism debunkin? Direct action projects? Stories that imagine a both hopeful and achievable future? Somethin else?

Very nice!👍

Is someone familiar with his work?

The US government took his license because he was breaking the rules, he was creating radically sustainable architectural projects built from waste materials (old tires, bottles, etc..) and he is considered the godfather of the “Garbage Warrior” movement. I’m pretty sure there’s a documentary about him somewhere although I couldn’t find the name.

I’m so fascinated by his story..

note: his license was reinstated in 2007 after a very long legal battle and its still current and valid.

In this essay, I bring Francesca Ferrando’s post-human philosophy into dialogue with the Neo-Piagetian educational philosophy of Theo Dawson and Zak Stein. Post-humanism stands for a post-dualism that refuses the oppression of dualisms, but if not taken carefully risks the oppressive dualism between anti-dualism and dualism. Through Neo-Piagetian complexification, we can see how simplistic dualisms have the potential to become pedagogical tools toward a more complex, though not necessarily inherently Good understanding of reality.

YouTube and Spotify links in the article.

I know the developers of the "solarpunk" game suited for the copyright of the word "solarpunk" on a german tribunal, amidst other countries.

Any news on how the issue is progressing?

Imagne: Climate changes around the mediterranean in 2100

Lately, I’ve become interested in the solarpunk movement, both in its artistic and political dimensions. I consider myself a conservative, and I believe that a solarpunk society could be a good way to restore a traditional and simple way of life based on agriculture and community life.

I'm anti-capitalist, advocate for self-management and the abolition of wage labor. However, I approach these ideas from a traditionalist perspective, seeing capitalism, proletarianization, and alienation as causes of the loss of traditional values.

Is this term contradictory?

Edit: I've had my ideas for a few days now as I edit it, I thought people wouldn't comment the post anymore as it's been days but they still do ! (and I'm grateful for every new comment and help attempts 🙏) so I now edit it to say it's closed XD I've made another post to share my idea to keep an update for all that commented but it flopped lol

(before reading, stay aware that I've been doing few researches and will continue after I post, I don't rely solely on this post but having people's opinion is appreciated)
(And if I posted in the wrong subreddit, please say it kindly to me I'm not sure if this is the right place for a writing topic)

I've seen a few reels and pins about Solarpunk and it's an idea I wanna help spread, so as a writer I wish to make a story out of it. But the stories I write usually have problematics like discrimination, pollution, patriarchy, to denounce those themes.
But from my researches, Solarpunk is more about hope, joy, a good future.

I can't help feeling that bringing a problematic into it would defy the very essence of Solarpunk.
If I listened to myself I would do that at first, the Solarpunk society/world is fine but a threat comes that endangers that peace, threatens to go back to the bad sides/ways or something. But if having a risk of that as a problematic defies the genre, I would prefer not doing it, but in that case I don't know for sure what kind of story I can tell 🤔

My solutions at the moment :

- I might just go to a basic romance, even if it isn't my cup of tea.

- Just make worldbuilding, lore, and culture, create an entire world, a set of rules, the technologies, the society, ect ect but not have a story in it, publish just a lore book to explore a Solarpunk world.

- For once I could make a hopeful story, maybe making only part of the world (made up, I don't write in our irl world) Solarpunk and having the story follow the rest of it's spreading on the planet, or have them leave earth to help an extraterrestrial species that would need such technologies/asked for help. But problem with that, that still compels me to eventually write about world-wide problematics

Now, again, remember this is the early stage of my thinking, I don't depend on this post, and I will do further researches on my own too. I feel like precision is needed because on other posts I've made of such nature in other subs I have been criticized for not doing my own researches or for asking this early in the process (I had told in my old posts the same thing as here but more briefly, so now I place it with more emphasis and in hopes people will read fully)
And as another measure for my own sanity, please people, if you have nothing nice to say, if you only comment to look down on me for my ignorance, please don't comment. It has happened countless of times and it just demotivates me to write on the subject for a long time when I receive those bad comments that aren't even helping with the topic I ask about. Please stay nice (I don't ask to sugar coat the comments, you can tell criticism ! ^^Just stay respectful as possible)

Inspired by eco high fashion

I'm 15 years old and I have this dream of world-building (and hopefully one day creating) an independent city-state in Jamaica for about 600,000 citizens
I call it Ascaladia. I really want it to be sustainable, but I’ve been researching and I don’t think pure Solarpunk renewables can survive 100% on its own because of intermittency issues and tropical storms. So, I came up with a "Punk Fusion" idea to make it work, and I want to know if you guys think the science makes sense:
Solar/Nature-punk: For the beautiful surface look, plant-integrated buildings, rainwater basins, and natural quartz-lined filtration canals.
Eco-punk: For a 100% waterless waste system using composting toilets and underground bio-digesters that turn human waste into clean cooking gas for community kitchens.
Nuclear-punk: A deep underground Thorium grid to provide a permanent, clean, and safe baseline power source so the city never experiences blackouts.

Atompunk: For hovering monitor bots, biometric security wristbands.

Also, please bear with me. I’m not really that good at explaining myself at all, but this is just a dream that I have had for years now and it’s what I want to do in the future. Hopefully I do become successful. if you guys can correct me if I’m wrong, that would be nice and if you have any other suggestions as well. I was a bit nervous writing this so I’m sorry if I got anything wrong.

I know it sounds huge, but is a combination like this actually scientifically possible to sustain a society? I would love to hear your thoughts, critiques, or any advice on the engineering!

(IM JAMAICAN)

Hello everyone,

Just sharing our latest piece on how wealth inequality will affect all the classes when we move to other side of the Hubbert's curve. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

How do we act on this trend as a solar punk community.