Recognizing that animals are people too, and treating them as such, is solarpunk AF.
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Sharing Our Community: Solarpunk Life
When 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 Utopian
How do we ensure the utopian worlds we are building aren’t, in fact, dystopian nightmares?
Workers Rights are Solarpunk
Struggling 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 Broadcasting
What 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 Gardens
Grab your laptop, kick back on the couch, put on some chill, ambient electronic music, and get lost in this new rewilding world building game.
What Sets Solarpunk Apart? Alternative vs Possible Futures
Rather 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 Lead
If 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.
It’s Not Easy Being Green: the Importance of Community Solutions
The 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 Future
Given 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.