In Hunters Point, Fla., the world’s first LEED Zero Energy certified residential development, every house produces more electricity than it uses

Open Source principles applied to biotech is a way we can today fight against the capture of oligarchical seed companies of the very foods we all need to live. Check out here to see what organizations in your area are part of the Global Coalition of Open Source Seed Initiatives (GOSSI).

From the 2023 Solarpunk Conference:

Dive into the world of Solarpunk optimism with John Threat as he presents a captivating exploration of Hacktivism and its role in shaping a future we all yearn for. In this thought-provoking talk, John delves into the impact of capitalism on our present, examining how aesthetics and media have fueled rampant consumerism. He challenges us to dream up creative solutions for a post-capitalist society, envisioning a world where technology and AI serve humanity rather than control it.

💡 Uncover the ways big tech and AI are currently employed for control, resource manipulation, and the extraction of our most precious asset—time. Discover how Hacktivism, the fusion of activism and hacking, can act as a catalyst for liberation, offering a path towards a Solarpunk future that aligns with our ideals.

IDK if this is quite solarpunk, but it's some kind of eco-punk.

This guy films himself cleaning up culverts and street drains, mostly in the New England region of the US, with a rake and hip waders. He bitches about beavers and idiots with excavators and has a lot of technical opinions on road engineering that I find interesting for no good gawddamn reason.

Props to him if he makes a decent amount on these videos. Better than customer service work.

I had never heard of a land trust being used to keep rates affordable - sounds like a very cool model!

Also briefly goes into Solarpunk as a likely "successor".

welcome to the first day of the New Year here where i am, in Western Colorado, USA. i am feeling an uncharacteristic sense of optimism today; any day can be full of new beginnings, but how great is 1/1/24 to also be full of opportunities?

speaking of which, what kind of actions have you been taking recently, or do you plan to take in the near future? how are you bringing solarpunk into the world?

may 2024 be a good year for you and yours, and me and mine, and ours, and humanity, and the earth.

I projected this and so much more on (formerly) Twitter HQ in San Francisco. You can see then are sign that used to show the company name.

Full conference room for the talk about Solarpunk at the CCC congress in Hamburg.

I found these paragraphs inspiring enough to share. Just living is praxis when you live mindfully.

Source: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution

One of the best Solarpunk games in my opinion, now on Nintendo Switch

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Piped

Bring back the Feast of Fools, callithumpian parades, and the Lord of Misrule!

My first solarpunk novel releases today. You can discover Murder in the Tool Library at eBook retailers. For a paperback like I’m holding, you’ll have to wait until next week. (Barnes and Noble did me dirty.)

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Nowhere is this more visible than on the shelves of game shops, where our choices for the future are dystopia, apocalypse, and space. Fully Automated is an open source tabletop RPG project developing a free game meant to provide for solarpunk what Dungeons & Dragons provides for fantasy. It's now in beta version 0.3 and we're looking to build our community of play testers and contributors!

Fully Automated! Solarpunk tabletop RPG

Gameplay: Fully Automated can be used with whatever your favorite system is. But for the best experience, we’ve designed a simple 2d10 system for roleplay built specifically for a world of interdependence and care rather than the logic of individualist domination that underlies most RPGs. For combat, Fully Automated uses a custom card-based system that’s fast and fun, and designed with defense and preservation of life in mind.

Characters: Who do you want to be? A healer? Hacker? Negotiator? Athlete? Customize from dozens of augmentations and abilities or play as one of 12 unique pre-made characters such as a Capoeira monk and a streetwise bike courier.

World Guide: You don’t have to study the economy, governance, and legal structure of Fully Automated to play it. But if you’re curious or looking for inspiration for your own writing, it’s all there. Learn about everything from food production to housing, along with a history that tells how we got from here to there. There's no one vision of solarpunk, but whatever your taste you can find things to use in our grounded, hard-sci-fi lore set one hundred years in the future.

Plus: playable stories! Fully Automated! Campaign 1- Regulation has a full three-mission campaign with 16+ hours of content to demonstrate what thrilling adventures look like within a world of fully automated luxury communism.

If you want to play or join this project visit our Discord server and help us work toward releasing version 1 in February 2024!

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'sup, comrades?

hope you're well. what's going on in your worlds? how have you been spending your time, energy, and interest? any cool praxis in your worlds?

I don't want to live on this planet anymore

Fuck these land-dwellers. Fuck the idiots. "Planes are a thing of the past". "A girl that builds an airplane, LOL". You know what, fuck you all, motherfuckers. I can't hear you over the sound of 45 kW of solar power and 180 kW of brushless engines. Wait, these little shits are silent. I can actually hear your whines. Fuck my life.

Yeah, no landing gears, I don't plan on landing. There's one person I care on this losers' planet and she lives by the sea. Landing strips are for dodos.

I don't go fast no, I will never go fast enough to get away from your ugly assface. I go up. My plane feeds from the sun and I feed from her plants. Got myself enough batteries to last through the night. Enough wing to rise over the storms. And enough e-books to not care for any company.

Tired of arguing it is impossible with idiots who ignore it was done decades ago. Apparently Helios and Solar Impulse are fake news. Get lost techbros who can't NASA.

No, I don't take passengers, you want to go up, you make your own. Get through your thick skull the equations of flight and power efficiency, and understand that for every percent gained anywhere, you can get half a percent more and a fistful of kilograms. You can choose to waste those on entitled meat or on chill non-judgemental plants. Guess which diet is better for physical and mental health.

No you can't follow me, you can't @ me, Saint Xyla grant me the strength to endure the bullshit noise that still goes through the radio.