Actualizando el listado de recomendaciones #Solarpunk, he descubierto que hay un concuros de relatos de esta temática organizado por la Asociación Cultural Astromelia (hasta el 30 de marzo). Tenéis toda la información aquí: https://www.escritores.org/recursos-para-escritores/recursos-2/articulos-de-interes/50-recursos-para-escritores/concursos-literarios/40084-certamen-de-relatos-solarpunk
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Mira los estados con etiquetas en la comunidad local de Lectura Social
Kyrylys terminó de leer Misión Regreso de Sara Sacristán Horcajada
I feel a little bit foolish, I run a solar powered server which provides a #mastodon instance, a #bittorrent client and a #gitea server. During the winter it's only online for fairly short periods of time depending on the sun.
Ive got some markdown files on the gitea server which I edit using the website, I therefore have to wait for the sunshine before i can do this, it can be a little annoying if the timing doesn't line up with my day schedule.
I have only just clicked that it's #git so I can clone to my laptop, edit to my hearts content and then push it back when the server is online. Honestly completely forgot this key function. Git (or other similar systems) are ideal for a #solarpunk #frugalcomputing approach, the server doesn't need to be online all day as …
I feel a little bit foolish, I run a solar powered server which provides a #mastodon instance, a #bittorrent client and a #gitea server. During the winter it's only online for fairly short periods of time depending on the sun.
Ive got some markdown files on the gitea server which I edit using the website, I therefore have to wait for the sunshine before i can do this, it can be a little annoying if the timing doesn't line up with my day schedule.
I have only just clicked that it's #git so I can clone to my laptop, edit to my hearts content and then push it back when the server is online. Honestly completely forgot this key function. Git (or other similar systems) are ideal for a #solarpunk #frugalcomputing approach, the server doesn't need to be online all day as it's not actually doing much in between, I can work separately. I wonder if this model could be applied to our parts of our day to day work
What is Solarpunk - An Intro with resources:
So solarpunk is an artistic aesthetic, literary genre, and social activism.
The artistic aesthetic tends to focus on the elements of solarpunk (discussed later) in an uplifting, colorful, and hopeful presentation. While it has no set limitations, popular aesthetics are art nouveau and studio ghibli styles.
The literary genre is "protopia" in style. It shows a pragmatic utopia while addressing present day social concerns. Some of it shows the ideal within a hopepunk and/or cozycore plot. Others have higher conflict and show the current social concerns being addressed and remediated.
The social activism side seeks to bring about that protopia world in the present day. The focus is to bring about a post-scarcity world where everyone has the basics of life covered while emphasizing increasing time for rest, luxury, the arts, culture, and community.
While these themes …
What is Solarpunk - An Intro with resources:
So solarpunk is an artistic aesthetic, literary genre, and social activism.
The artistic aesthetic tends to focus on the elements of solarpunk (discussed later) in an uplifting, colorful, and hopeful presentation. While it has no set limitations, popular aesthetics are art nouveau and studio ghibli styles.
The literary genre is "protopia" in style. It shows a pragmatic utopia while addressing present day social concerns. Some of it shows the ideal within a hopepunk and/or cozycore plot. Others have higher conflict and show the current social concerns being addressed and remediated.
The social activism side seeks to bring about that protopia world in the present day. The focus is to bring about a post-scarcity world where everyone has the basics of life covered while emphasizing increasing time for rest, luxury, the arts, culture, and community.
While these themes are covered in other movements (many of which are not opposed and work well with solarpunk), the solarpunks themselves seek to use modern day (and near future) technology to assist in this post-scarcity world. Technologies such as automation, renewable energies, and economies of scale - currently utilized by various ruling classes - to instead be used by the working class. Further efforts are made within degrowth (removing technology for technologies sake, and consumption for consumption's sake).
While not solely limited to anarchic politics, many of the approaches are non-hierarchical in nature and when they are hierarchical, they often focus on local political structures, decentralized, and distributed, with cooperation between various local groups for a national and inter-national co-op structure.
Long and short, solarpunks were tired of being warned of the present dystopia of cyberpunk without solutions to overcome that dystopia. They yearned for positive stories and art that showed a direction to pursue. And they wanted to act in the now to bring about that change.
Solarpunk is not the only movement towards protopia and progressive social change. And it should not be the only movement. But it adds its take on how to approach remediating current social and environmental and material crises.
The areas of focus are (but not limited to):
Post-scarcity: Food, Water, Shelter, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, and Energy (energy is focused on renewables, efficiencies, and lower energy requirements)
Arts, beauty, aesthetics, culture
Rest, leisure, community bonds, and protection for individual rights
Some good places to start are:
- What is Solarpunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI61GHNGJM
- Mutual Aid by Dean Spade: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-mutual-aid
- Solarpunk Manifesto (not the only one and by no means authoritative, but something to muse on): https://iandennismiller.github.io/solarpunk/manifesto/english.html
- Solarpunk Notes Toward a Manifesto (more voices are better than one): https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/
- Solarpunk: A Reference Guide: https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
- Solarpunk Lemmy Instance: https://slrpnk.net/
- Solarpunk Discord Server: https://discord.gg/C76x3bWXEA
Some sample solarpunk projects:
- Seed Libraries, Tool Libraries, Library Economy, Libraries in general
- Community Gardens, Community Farms & Ranches, Backyard / Apartment Gardens
- Community Free Fridges & Pantries, Peer-to-peer food exchanges, community kitchens and restaurants
- Maker Spaces, home fabrication - cnc machines, 3d printers, sewing and textiles, home welding, home carpentry
- Repair Cafes, Right-to-Repair, making higher quality items that last a long time and can be maintained
- Community and Peer to Peer support and mental healthcare, mutual aid groups, community support and protection groups
- Solar and wind and other renewable energy at a small scale, localized decentralized energy grids, community prep and resiliency
- Art and literature and music and dance.
- Tenant co-ops, removing shelter and homes as an asset class, "non-profit" housing development
- Community Health Insurance schemes, "Non-profit" insurance. Direct negotiation with local doctors, specialists, etc.
- Public Transit, Trains, Subways, Light Rail, Bicycles, Personal Electric Vehicles (PEVs), pedestrian access, city design and planning
Beware:
Green Washing - Just cause its pretty doesn't mean its sustainable or solarpunk or non-exploitative.
Beware Capitalist Co-option - They like to sell back everything, including the concept of tearing down Capitalism
- Compare this advertisement that looks like solarpunk: Dear Alice by Chiboni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ng5ZvrDm4
- To the "decommodified" version (pay attention to how they changed the name from "Donations" to "Commons" - moving away from capitalist propaganda of "charity" and into an actual mutual aid approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJJktxCY9U
Solarpunk is a vibrant and living philosophy, style, and approach. It's not the end all be all and its not meant to be the end all be all. It has it's issues and legitimate criticism. But its an approach that generates hope and it committed to dealing with actual issues using actual pragmatic solutions within the constraint of actual ethics.
During a time when we're all beat down and exhausted and fearful - solarpunk pushes back and says Fuck That. I'm going to live. I'm going to be happy. And I'm going to work to ensure that everyone else lives and is happy.
New blog post: "More #Solarpunk Art" - https://danielquinn.org/blog/more-solarpunk-art/
It's tough to describe #solarpunk grocery stores as a concept. You can imagine glimpses: co-ops full of local veggies for anyone to take. But imagining them at scale is tough!
Which is why it's nice that #LinaKhan 's FTC scored 1 more big win in blocking the #AlbertsonsKroger merger. One thing we can say for sure is that a better food system is FAR less centralized and corporate than this.
What would you like to see in a solarpunk grocery store?
It's tough to describe #solarpunk grocery stores as a concept. You can imagine glimpses: co-ops full of local veggies for anyone to take. But imagining them at scale is tough!
Which is why it's nice that #LinaKhan 's FTC scored 1 more big win in blocking the #AlbertsonsKroger merger. One thing we can say for sure is that a better food system is FAR less centralized and corporate than this.
What would you like to see in a solarpunk grocery store?
En primavera publicaremos «Otra vida», de Sarena Ulibarri, una novela que adoré en cuanto la leí y que tiene todo lo que me gusta.
Es una obra #solarpunk que habla de la construcción de alternativas desde el realismo y la complejidad. Nos lleven a reflexionar y repensar el futuro al que nos dirigimos.
La cubierta de Crononauta será diferente, a ver si la podemos enseñar pronto ^^
Happy #halloween !
Halloween is a very #solarpunk holiday:
* Harvest-centered
* Witchy/Pagan
* Celebrated by visiting neighbors and gifting visitors food
* Punk AF
Here's a question? What roles or professions do you think a solarpunk future might mythologize with costumes the way that we do with pirates and cowboys?
Happy #halloween !
Halloween is a very #solarpunk holiday:
* Harvest-centered
* Witchy/Pagan
* Celebrated by visiting neighbors and gifting visitors food
* Punk AF
Here's a question? What roles or professions do you think a solarpunk future might mythologize with costumes the way that we do with pirates and cowboys?
Mayor Anne Hidalgo is removing 70,000 of its 140,000 on-street parking spaces, to make the city greener and more people-friendly. De-paving is a particularly effective tool in the fight against climate change; improving carbon absorption, heat mitigation, rain retention, and bio-diversity.
Every shift away from space-hogging cars creates new opportunities to vegetate urban streets.
As Paris shows, the best way to remake a city is through transport. By changing how people move, Mayor Hidalgo is changing the spaces they use; transitioning from hostile, asphalt- and car-dominated places to ones more vibrant, welcoming, and resilient to the challenges of today. Via Chris Bruntlett https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cbruntlett_despite-representing-just-13-of-journeys-activity-7251588099330183171-Zga5/
#Urbanism #ClimateAction #Paris #France #SolarPunk #GIMBYism #OWGF
Oh snap! Big #solarpunk #ttrpg news!
I just learned that #SolarpunkMagazine has a live #kickstarter for a new solarpunk #rpg active RIGHT NOW!
"City of Hope" is a utopian RPG about building the city of 2050, and comes bundled with a subscription to Solarpunk Magazine! They have 15 days to go on their crowdfunding campaign and are 68% of the way to their goal!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/city-of-hope-0
Go show 'em some love!
Oh snap! Big #solarpunk #ttrpg news!
I just learned that #SolarpunkMagazine has a live #kickstarter for a new solarpunk #rpg active RIGHT NOW!
"City of Hope" is a utopian RPG about building the city of 2050, and comes bundled with a subscription to Solarpunk Magazine! They have 15 days to go on their crowdfunding campaign and are 68% of the way to their goal!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/city-of-hope-0
Go show 'em some love!
Some #Solarpunk Art by https://www.brennaquinlan.com/
Insta: @brenna_quinlan
check her out, she's amazing!
Some #Solarpunk Art by https://www.brennaquinlan.com/
Insta: @brenna_quinlan
check her out, she's amazing!
I absolutely love this #solarpunk #art by Joan_de_art.
When I close my eyes, this is exactly what Los Angeles looks like to me in Fully Automated!
If I had to guess a neighboorhood, I'm gonna suggest Echo Park or Silverlake. This could be a lot of places, but I'm reacting mostly based on the topography.
I absolutely love this #solarpunk #art by Joan_de_art.
When I close my eyes, this is exactly what Los Angeles looks like to me in Fully Automated!
If I had to guess a neighboorhood, I'm gonna suggest Echo Park or Silverlake. This could be a lot of places, but I'm reacting mostly based on the topography.
If anyone wants to throw some ideas into our idea bucket, we've got a new draft document for an expansion examining all the catastrophes the world of Fully Automated has had to navigate.
From climate collapse to Kessler syndrome, we've got a lot to work with! Feel free to throw in your own ideas!
If anyone wants to throw some ideas into our idea bucket, we've got a new draft document for an expansion examining all the catastrophes the world of Fully Automated has had to navigate.
From climate collapse to Kessler syndrome, we've got a lot to work with! Feel free to throw in your own ideas!
Happy Friday! Enjoy this article on how engineers in Namibia are using mushrooms to convert an aggressive invasive weed into building materials instead of burning them!
A+ headline, btw:
" ‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds "
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/18/namibia-homes-built-from-mushrooms-mycohab-mycelium
