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- April Micro Fiction Contest WinnerDental Hygiene on Orbital Station #57, by Meg Murray
- Kickstarter Live: Utopia Awards & Cli-Fi Con 22 Early Bird Admission!Help make the first annual Utopia Awards & Climate Fiction Conference a reality!
- The Solarpunk Now! Podcast: An InterviewSolarpunk Now! is a science/tech and politics podcast highlighting radical ideas, projects, and theories for a brighter future.
- Utopia Awards & Climate Fiction Conference Announced!The first annual Utopia Awards & Climate Fiction Conference, #CliFiCon22, presented by Android Press, has been announced!
- Mexican Solarpunk is Here: Song For CantalaguaSong For Cantalagua is a Mexican solarpunk adventure webcomic about Nila, a girl who sets out on a quest to solve an ancient mystery in her hometown.
- Our Shared Storm: An Interview with Andrew Dana Hudsonit’s possible that if we keep building renewables the way we’re projected to over the next decade or so, we might end up with access to way more energy than human beings have ever had to work with
- February Micro Fiction Contest Winner: “The Candidate” by Anna ZiegelhofMy mind was made up. I was going to join the historian-witnesses. My guides had tested my resolve. They had spoken truthfully to me all day.
- Fraggle Rock: A Hopeful Solarpunk-Lunarpunk FantasyFrom community and stewardship of the natural environment, to radical acceptance, hope, and the central theme of solutions to climate change and environmental damage, Fraggle Rock is without a doubt the most solarpunk show we currently have on television. Whether you’re a young kid or an environmental and socially conscious adult, this show will bring a big smile to your face.
- Review — After the Revolution by Robert EvansRoberts debut novel kept me glued to the pages—a smart, well-crafted, and action-packed military science fiction story that deals with the horrors of war through a trauma-informed lens.
- Chapbook Review: Hell/a Mexican, by Kevin Madrigal GalindoThe poems aren’t in any way science fiction or speculative. But Mr. Madrigal, whether he knows it or not, is solarpunk AF with his nourishing of people to build up their communities and better their worlds.
- An Interview with Solarpunk Surf ClubIt’s too easy to imagine the end of the world. Much easier, sometimes, than imagining a pathway to a better world. That’s why Solarpunk Futures was created.
- Doomsday DerbyEmpty lots and poor people’s homes were fed into one end of the market, high-rises were spat out the other. But parking garages, in all their brutalist invincibility, were hard to tear down or retrofit. That’s when Derby gangs like us rolled in. We squatted and tagged, built planter beds, and from the broken glass and cigarette butts birthed the totally novel institution that is Doomsday Derby.
- January’s Afro-Solarpunk Micro Fiction Contest WinnerIf only her ancestors had witnessed the arrival of the age of milk and honey.
- Interview with Jared Hudson, the Creator of Cashmere SkyAs the saying goes, conflict makes a great story. I believe having a society grow and evolve as much as the characters give more interesting layers to it.
- If This Goes On (Don’t Panic)Our editors-in-chief recently joined a couple of the hosts and talked all things Solarpunk on the “If This Goes On” podcast.
- Issue #1 Release & Launch PartyJoin us for our Issue #1 release and launch party! Streaming live from YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, and Facebook. Tuesday January 11th at 6pm GMT.
- What Would a Solarpunk Government Look Like?Solarpunk has a lot of dreams for a future we’d like to live in. Cultural and racial diversity; dignity, prosperity and a high quality of life for all; and urban greenery, artisanal everything, and solar panels galore. But what about the government?
- December’s Solarpunk Micro Fiction Contest WinnersHere are the winning stories from December’s Solarpunk Micro Fiction Contest.
- The Matrix Resurrection Brings Lunarpunk to the Big ScreenThe 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.
- Don’t Look Up: Netflix’s #1 Movie takes on Climate DenialA film about how hilariously absurd our collective mass climate denial has become.
- Putting the Punk in SolarpunkRegardless of what form the revolution that upends the current system takes, we can’t help but see how punk it truly is to imagine and dream of solarpunk futures.
- Cyberpunk Fairy Tales Packed a Punch and Left Me Feeling HopefulEdited by Rhonda Parrish, this third installment of her “Punked Up Fairy Tales” series more than lived up to my hopes and expectations, and left me craving more cyberpunk stories.
- New Submissions Process and Themed Issue AnnouncementsOur submission windows are no longer issue-based, and we announce three themed issues.
- Solarpunk Futures: A Fun and Creative Utopian Storytelling GameThe Solarpunk Futures card game let’s players solve problems and build utopias together through collaborative and cooperative storytelling.
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- Upcoming Events for December 2021 & January 2022Solarpunk Film Screening Join Solarpunk Magazine on Saturday December 18 atContinue reading “Upcoming Events for December 2021 & January 2022”
- How To Create Conflict in Solarpunk and Utopian WritingIt’s easier than you think because conflict is through character. If you start off by creating a solid character then conflict will automatically grow. Secondly just because you have a Solarpunk or Utopian world doesn’t mean there are no conflicts.
- MERP is Making Solarpunk Futures Real in the PresentThe Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project is combating climate change with urban farming, community resiliency, direct action, education, building coalitions, and organizational development through critical input and feedback by participants.
- Review of “The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis”The closer we run out the clock on the changes we need to make to avoid catastrophic climate change and a total collapse of ecosystems, the greater our climate anxiety spikes, paralyzing us into not taking action. You could call it a death spiral. If we let it occur, that is. Here then perhaps is the book to kick us in the kiester with enough positive thinking to get us moving.
- Respecting Animal Sentience is a Key Step Toward Building UtopiaRecognizing that animals are people too, and treating them as such, is solarpunk AF.
- UPCOMING CLASS: Writing Climate Fiction in the Age of Climate DisasterClimate change is our present and our future. Writing Climate Fiction in the Age of Climate Disaster is a six session creative writing course that focuses on writing stories that center climate and climate change.
- Solarpunk and Technology: A Necessary Relationship?The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes. But that long answer comes with a number of qualifications that will be highlighted in this article.
- Free Guy and Building UtopiaThis is a movie that lived in dystopia, but it didn’t end there. It ended with optimism, hope, and a beautiful, new, utopian world.
- Tom Hanks’s “Finch” isn’t Solarpunk, it’s a SolarflopI wanted to be able to call this film solarpunk. I wanted to like this movie and come away from it excited. Unfortunately, neither ended up being the case.
- Solarpunk Portland: Proposals to Transform a CityJust a few dozens of miles north from where I sit here typing away, a group of solarpunks is reimagining the state’s only big city through a series of proposals for metro-wide transformative infrastructure projects.
- Building Utopia Pt 3: Harmony Between Humanity, Technology, and NatureHow do we build harmony between humanity, technology, and nature?
- Sharing Our Community: Solarpunk LifeWhen I first came across these folks online I was immediately drawn in by their catch phrase, or motto if you will: “Do Good, Be Good.” Yes, exactly! Building a better world is nothing if it isn’t about doing good, and being good.
- Building Utopia Pt 2: How to Tell if the Future You’re Building is UtopianHow do we ensure the utopian worlds we are building aren’t, in fact, dystopian nightmares?
- Workers Rights are SolarpunkStruggling and rebelling against the boss is solarpunk af. This is especially true in our world today where 70% of climate change emissions come not from our homes and individual habits, but from the bosses, their companies and corporations, their institutions of power.
- Solarpunk Magazine on Oregon Public BroadcastingWhat if humans came together to solve the climate crisis? What if people from marginalized groups all felt safe in society? The solarpunk genre imagines creative answers to these questions.
- Chill Out and Rebuild the World with Cloud GardensGrab your laptop, kick back on the couch, put on some chill, ambient electronic music, and get lost in this new rewilding world building game.
- Building Utopia Pt 1: Utopia in the Age of Climate CrisisUtopianism doesn’t have be to pie in the sky and impractical. It doesn’t have to be unachievable. Real utopia can exist. We can imagine a better future and create a new world for the next generations.
- What Sets Solarpunk Apart? Alternative vs Possible FuturesRather than looking to the past and reimaging history into alternative futures, solarpunk looks directly into the future in search of something brighter.
- Rebuilding Tomorrow with Disabled Folks in the LeadIf the futures we imagine aren’t accessible, and if they don’t go out of their way to include and make space for these communities, then the worlds we are building can’t by any right be called utopian.
- One Year Later, “Recognize Fascism” is Still One of the Most Important Anthologies You Need to ReadIn a moment where rightwing extremism continues to boldly rear its ugly head, books like Recognize Fascism are vital and welcomed additions to our cultural conversation.
- It’s Not Easy Being Green: the Importance of Community SolutionsThe high price tag of going green—not to mention the unrealistic expectations that we can all live up to the purity tests involved in focusing on individual solutions—is one reason why the spotlight solarpunk places on community values and collective solutions is so valuable.
- 9 Reasons Why Solarpunk is the FutureGiven the moment that solarpunk is currently enjoying here in the present, it seems like an good opportunity to examine nine reasons why we believe solarpunk is, in fact, the future we are both waiting for and creating together.
- Solarpunk is the Optimistic Future we NeedIt is not too late to ensure a future for many generations to come. We must take responsibility for the environmental choices we make and the destructive systems we create, and understand that it is action on our part that will lead to positive, sustainable change.
- With a Little Help from Our Friends: Solarpunk and Community Valuescommunity and individuality aren’t opposites. They don’t need to be in competition. They don’t have to be, and we can’t allow them to be at odds with each other. We can create healthy local communities rooted in democracy and diversity, composed of individuals whose self-reliance and DIY spirit contribute to and make the community stronger, communities that are spaces where those who might need more reliance on others, for any number of reasons, can also contribute and thrive.
- What is Lunarpunk?Lunarpunk is a relatively new and still underdeveloped subgenre born, or rather in the process of being born, out of solarpunk as well as science fiction and fantasy more broadly.
- Solarpunk: A Genre of ActivismSolarpunk is an excellent example of a space where speculative literature and art come together with present day, real-world activism in a shared purpose to build, create, and be disruptive.
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