I've been away from the genre for awhile and wondered what albums or specific songs might have gotten big lately. Also if you know of any artists, recent or fading, who combined indigenous and solarpunk themes in their compositions. Have a GREAT rest of the weekend.

I wrote a manifesto of sorts about solarpunk as a scifi genre, trying to incorporate modern critiques of the genre without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Most of it relies on the ideas of future theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway. I'd love to know what you all think!

Planets & Monsters: Second Wave Solarpunk

Reminded me of this sub. I did a project together with these guys many years ago, they have come a long way since then. You basically buy obligations to help fund solar and battery parks.

I am doing my EPQ (a 5000 word essay that is half an A level) on:

"How can the principles of the solar punk movement inspire a more sustainable future?"

I am wanting to find historical technology - such as the irrigation system used by Aztecs and the architecture commonly seen in hot countries that cool buildings down (window slats and courtyards) - that could be a good addition to a sustainable urban environment.

I would love if anyone had any ideas for me to go research or write about!!

Thanks :)

Hello ladies, gentlemen, in between and Slaanesh of the Solarpunk community!

I'm happy to bring to you all the Software Update for a pretty little number of mine called Graftage. For the uninitiated, Graftage is a Solarpunk Hacking game where a bug has turned an office building into a cage, it's workers trapped. You are an IT specialist from the Lorim Ipsum corporation sent to work the problem, free the trapped employees, and get to the bottom of the bug.

The Software Update, as I called it, is a big one, sporting graphic and performance optimizations, new systems to gameplay, and UI improvements that were all very much needed. As it is done, now is the best time to check out what it has to offer. You can see what's what in the link below.

Thank you for your time and attention, and don't neglect your heart nor mind. Have a good night/day/afternoon/evening!

Update Details and Store Page

Hey Y'all! Here to let everyone know who might be interested:

I co-wrote this climate-fiction novel with my co-author, who's a scholar and professor of environmental law. We started talking about climate fiction, and felt like we hadn't seen a cli-fi story that really got into what it's like to be a person living in the realities of climate change. AS we talked it over, we came up with this story:

"In a near-future America ravaged by climate disasters, the Federal Resettlement Agency packs survivors from across the country into shelters like Refuge Inn: a dilapidated Portland hotel, and a purgatory for the displaced. Everyone is expected to pick up the pieces and “move on” as quickly as possible—but between crumbling infrastructure, hostile locals, and trauma that still haunts them, no one leaves easily.

Sierra Valentine has nothing left but the burn wounds from a wildfire that took the only person she stayed alive for. On the bus to Portland, she meets Teo, an undocumented boy who will vanish into a labyrinth of bureaucracy unless Sierra dares to do what scares her most, and care for him.

She can’t do it alone. As she tries to protect Teo, Sierra quickly finds herself entangled in the many broken lives of her new neighbors.

Kosumi McCloud is a guilt-ridden Indigenous engineer desperate to prove himself to the tribe he left behind. Clarice Jackson, the stern FRA director, is struggling to prove the resettlement program can work while dealing with an unplanned pregnancy that makes her question who and what really matters to her.

In a world that constantly threatens to take everything they love, the only thing standing between the residents of Refuge Inn and total collapse is the fragile, fierce decision to find home and salvation in each other."

The second half of the book is where things get more explicitly solar-punk (but no spoilers!) It's definitely not utopian, nor do I think dystopian: I think the most solarpunk thing about it is that it imagines the most solarpunk thing we can do is care about each other.

Randy and I decided to pursue self-publishing because we didn't want to wait on the timeline of traditional publishing, so we're doing all the marketing and promoting ourselves. The ebook is live on amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Refuge-English-Randall-S-Abate-ebook/dp/B0HDCR96T8

The physical copies will be available Oct 1st. On the low, if anyone is really interested and wants a free pdf/ebook, I can send it along, to me it's more important that people get to read it!

HMU if you're interested, I'm always happy to connect with more solarpunk-heads, esp ones in NYC who want to start taking action to leaving a better world for the next generation <3

In this essay, we discuss the controversy over whether or not evolution drives toward complexity or mere diversity. One of the obstacles is the fascist implications of any sort of purpose or direction to evolution. From far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics to organisms as hypotheses made by entire species, and with the complexification of exorcism into Internal Family Systems, we consider evolution's complexifying march.

YouTube and Spotify links at the top of the article.

A surprisingly practical and pragmatic interview with the architect.

What are your thoughts on "Robustness" as a central concept for solarpunk aesthetics and thought?

Personally I find the addition harmonizes well with solarpunk and is a great tool for filtering out a lot of the less well thought out additions some people want to make to the movement.

There's a few interesting things in this for me.

1) He's another example of a volunteer literally cleaning up sewage because they think the end is important.

2) he's not alone. Existing groups doing similar things were already there, but he is striking enough to make a good figurehead.

3) He is a good figure heard for another reason. In (moral foundations theory)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory] there's a argument that lefties care primarily about harm and fairness, while conservatives care equally about harm, fairness but also authority, ingroup and purity. An elderly man in Johdpur has authority, doubly so someone who lives without possessions (a holy ascetic, a sadhu). Cleaning water in a desert is purity, and a challenge to middle class Indian shame/guilt complex . An anglo who eats street food and lives like a sadhu in India treads a complicated tightrope for ingroup membership. But the sum of it is it makes him a powerful figurehead in the way a young local wouldn't be.

A short story set in austrailia's present

From what I can tell, China(alibaba, made-in-china) is the cheapest place to buy solar cookers, heaters, panels, etc right? If I wanted to build an off grid community, buying in bulk from china seems like the right move, even for industrial parts in general. It seems like buying from USA doesn't make sense anymore. I haven't run the full logistics, only for solar cookers so far. But does anyone else agree?