solarpunk

Decided to grow a street lamp.

Here it is at 3 weeks, 2 months, and fully grown at 6 months.

#solarpunk #joke #gardening

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hello all!

a lil #introduction post as i’m brand new to mastodon but incredibly intrigued by what i’ve seen while exploring so far :)

i’m danny (they/them), a #nonbinary artist and #insect enthusiast who draws a lot of #nature, especially bugs and mushrooms!! i also take a lot of #photography of nature, and bother people for the identification (i’m a life long learner and knowledge is tasty)!

i’m also working on a #graphicnovel (very early stages) that has a lot to do with the #environment, connecting with community and nature and what it means to belong to a place (also being #queer naturally) :3

some of my other interests include, #gardening, #solarpunk, #sustainability, #crochet, #reading, and #diy!!

i’m looking forward to meeting people!

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first post on mastodon, here’s some of my work!

I’m a sci-fi / fantasy illustrator and hoping to connect with other artists on here as well✌🏼✨

#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart

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Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

#Balkonsolar - Anlagen werden von Fossilist:innen bekämpft, weil sie so gut funktionieren: Sie schützen die #Mitwelt, halten das #Geld dezentral (solare #Wohlstandsenergie, #Energiedemokratie), reduzieren die Finanzierung von #Ressourcenfluch - Regimen (= erneuerbare #Friedensenergien) & verändern mit all dem täglich bei Tausenden den #Energieglauben. Echte #Solarpunk - Beschleuniger! Folgt gerne z.B. @balkonsolar 🌞🇩🇪🇪🇺🙌

https://www.n-tv.de/shopping-und-service/Ist-ein-Balkonkraftwerk-wirklich-gut-fuer-die-Umwelt-article25965625.html

Wat als het goed gaat?

Huub de Groot en Priscilla Haring-Kuipers werpen licht op kunstmatige fotosynthese en solarpunk: technologie die zonlicht, water en CO₂ gebruikt om duurzame brandstoffen te maken, en sciencefictionverhalen die al een beeld geven van hoe de wereld er met die nieuwe technologie uit zou kunnen komen te zien.

🌞 16 oktober Lipsiusgebouw Leiden

Toegang gratis. Iedereen welkom

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/studium-generale/programma/de-tijd-vooruit-ii#donderdag-16-oktober-de-toekomst-is-solarpunk
#solarpunk

Some seeds drying on plates before storing and/or seed saving. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Allotment #SeedSaving #Solarpunk

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The grand finale is here!

The final two Chapters (43 and 44) of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

stop and smell the harvesting spires

#scifiart #sciencefiction #solarpunk #procreate #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #comicart

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https://tinjar.ghost.io/anf/download-a-new-faith/

Ebook versions (EPUB and PDF) are available to download to your favorite ebook reader.

Both versions are DRM-free and should be usable with most ebook readers. DRM-free means that these are yours to keep and also share with friends/family just like a physical book.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction

"When frogs dream, lichens smile. Ecological connections were explored anew. Artists recorded conversations of small creatures. People sat fascinated in flower meadows. Children laughed in the forest with knobbly mosses and chatty ants."

Disover my virtual exhibit of #BiodiversityShrines - about finds in a fictional future: https://www.cronenburg.net/biodiversity/
It was a real exhibit, now saved online.

#biodiversity #sciArt #archaeology #solarpunk #sporespondence #lichen #ecology #reconnectWithNature #art

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The home raised bed is sown with autumn/winter crops. (See AltText for the list of veg).

This bed will give us a diverse harvest of fresh leafy greens throughout late autumn, winter and into spring.

We’re lucky to have temperate winters in the UK but few growers make use of our climate. We harvest something virtually all year round.

Elsewhere we’ll grow autumn sown broad beans, field beans, onions, garlic, potatoes, autumn carrots, horseradish. Lots.
#GrowYourOwn #NoDig #HomeGrown #SolarPunk

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Grow enough for you.
Grow enough for your neighbors.
Share freely.

Artwork from: https://www.disorganizedjoy.com/

#solarPunk #mutualAid

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There’s no such thing as having too much compost. There’s more to bring over from another plot. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Mulch #Allotment #SolarPunk

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Tonight I’m wishing that Becky Chambers would add more books to the Monk and Robot Series. I’d love to learn more about that calm, hopeful world.

#Books #BeckyChambers #ScienceFiction #MonkAndRobot #HopePunk #SolarPunk

@bookstodon

That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅

@bookstodon @books
@worldbuilding @humor @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever
#Book #Books #Bookstodon
#BoostingIsSharing

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Yay! A non-fiction anthology to which I contributed an essay detailing the world building process for my #solarpunk stories in the Yat Madit (Big Tree) world, has won The Ignyte Awards.

There are some good books here if you are looking for something to read!

https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

https://jaylit.com/african-writers-among-2025-ignyte-award-winners/

#bookstodon #sff #writing #writingcommunity

Solarpunk at Dutch Design Week 👁️
Solarpunk Unbound
Visions, art, science and practical manifestations. Including exhibition, expert meeting, workshop, unconference
What? Exhibition, expert meeting, workshop, and unconference
Why? Solarpunk is speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism.
Who? Marius Monen, Priscilla Haring, Jeroen van der Most
When? October 18–26
Location? Stadslab Eindhoven, Gasfabriek 6
Organizer? MAD emergent art center
https://ddw.nl/programme/solarpunk-unbound
#DDW #solarpunk

Vanmiddag een solarpunk workshop gedaan bij MADlab tijdens Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven
Hele leuke sessie met
- zorgeloos leven in je eigen boerderij bubbel
- de (de)evolutie van menselijke communicatie
- organische stadsomgeving
- lestrein onderweg
en meer 👇🏼
#solarpunk #DDW

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My Solarpunk Manifesto

Solarpunk is a radical hope-infused aesthetic and political ideology centered on building an equitable, sustainable, just, and accessible world where no one is left behind, where we build with nature, where we destroy all forms of exploitation and oppression, where we celebrate the wonderful diversity of humanity and nature, where we live within our planet's optimal boundaries for habitability and survival.

Solarpunk rejects unhealthy growth. Instead, it embraces harmony with one's environment, degrowth and decolonial concepts that are rooted in unlearning our unhealthy and harmful socializations from past violent regimes. Where we instead build with nature in a collaborative way.

Solarpunk embraces the Pluriverse, where there is no one way for all of society and people to live/exist, but there is a multiplicity in lifestyles, ways of being, and ways of constructing society. Finding the healthiest, care-centric, equitable, just, and accessible way of being in society requires collaboration and exploration by those within that community, and often is unique to that community.

Solarpunk rejects binary models. Humanity and the natural world exists in multiplicity. There are multiple genders, multiple sexual orientations, multiple ways bodies can appear, and multiple abilities, which all have validity.

Solarpunk embraces accessibility and inclusivity as the foundation in which to build society and relations with one another, where events and places are easily accessible to people of all abilities and gender and age.

Solarpunk rejects capitalist-individualism. Instead, it embraces collective care and solidarity between fellow human beings and non-human beings and ecosystems, where our unique individuality is celebrated for its diversity and our contributions to our community accepted at the level in which people are able to give.

Solarpunk recognizes the dynamic and ever-evolving process that is nature as well as its right to exist alongside human being's right to exist. We are in community, and that relationship with nature and one another requires collective care and solidarity.

Solarpunk rejects unhealthy competition and embraces instead collaboration and conflict resolution. To build a community requires collaboration and just conflict resolution strategies.

Solarpunk rejects greed and hoarding of resources that is endemic to capitalism. Instead, solarpunk embraces sharing and collectively/publicly held goods, land, information, and resources. This isn't to say solarpunk is against us personally owning things, but to say that:

* the land itself cannot be owned as property as it holds personhood within our collective Earth community,
* the public commons are crucial to survival,
* information should be open and free to access and use,
* Internet infrastructure should be open and accessible for all to use and held collectively by the people
* library systems are critical for the community and provide books, tech equipment, skill swaps, and other necessary items and skills for all to use,
* healthcare free and accessible to all, education free and accessible to all, where a diverse methodology of problem-solving and encouragement of discovery and reading is emphasized,
* the goods/resources needed for survival must be shared equitably so no one is left behind and everyone is provided for,
* all our infrastructure is collectively held and maintained,
* all of our society -- every aspect of our community -- is accessible to all who dwell in it.

Solarpunk rejects exploitation of others and one's environment. Instead, it embraces collective care and mutual aid, where we honor and respect one another's differences, identities, abilities, and actively listen and care for each other. Where we seek to do no harm and if harm is done, actively hold one another accountable and do repair. Transformative justice is often the framework used in repair. Where we work in collaboration with one another and the ecosystems in which we dwell. That we sustainably source our materials and engage in repair to ecosystems, to give them time to recover for any extraction we do to meet our collective needs. To never take more than we need and to use all that we need to avoid waste. To create things made to last, where we can repair and mend what we have and share those skills within inclusive and accessible systems, like libraries of skills, goods, books, etc.

Solarpunk rejects racism, rejects white supremacy, rejects ableism, rejects classism, rejects sexism, rejects xenophobia, rejects homophobia and transphobia, rejects antisemitism, rejects all forms of bigotry that treats a group of people as less-than.

Solarpunk embraces liberation, equality and equity, where no one is left behind, where non-hierarchical, horizontal democratic practices are utilized.

Solarpunk rejects borders. Borders are often used to punish migrants and asylum seekers and has been a source of violence against other groups of people that is rooted in supremacy, domination, and xenophobia. Thus, solarpunk rejects it. Instead, solarpunk embraces either open borders or no borders at all. Migrants are welcomed and needs provided for just like any person dwelling in that community.

Solarpunk invites everyone to work together collaboratively toward a just, sustainable, equitable, accessible present and future. Where we can start building that right now with one another even as we work to end the harmful systems oppressing us. Power to the people! We can do this together.

"Lajok: The Night Dancer" by filmmaker @dilmandila is a spooky revenge fantasy based on Ugandan (Luo) folklore. Dance is used to possess and control but once the spell is broken, the same power can be used for payback.

Watch: https://makertube.net/w/pvjR9o3oNJMBLHHUm9kpqW

If you enjoy this film, consider supporting @dilmandila's newest project "Windy: A SolarPunk Short Film"

Donate: https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film

#film #IndependentFilm #AfricanArt #PeerTube #solarpunk

New account, new #introduction post!

I’m Rhys, a writer, solarpunk, and witch/druid living in the Midlands, UK. My pronouns are they/them, although I’m currently exploring my gender, so that may change.

I've just set up a new blog: https://www.panga.blog/about

I will accept most follow requests!

#Writing #Solarpunk #Anarchism #Witchcraft #Druidry #Midlands #Vegan #Bisexual #Polyamorous #NonBinary #Autism #ADHD #WorkingClass

I'm making a new film, a dark comedy set in a #solarpunk world where direct democracy thrives, no politicians, no central governments, where communities are self-sufficient and help each other to survive the climate crisis. But I need your support to imagine this future.

Details https://www.dilmandila.com/donate/wind-a-solarpunk-short-film

303/2000

This film is the final step toward making a feature set in this world.

#mutualaid #creativetoots #kickstarter #crowdfund #art #BuyIntoArt #sff #film

I want to propose Commons Based Peer Production as an economic model capable of representing #opensource work, #carework, #volunteering and similar efforts, where traditional #capitalism can not.

Would this allow us to describe a path towards a #solarpunk #postscarcity future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production

If you’re in the UK and you are interested in growing and/or conserving heirloom varieties and supporting the Heritage Seed Library now would be a good time to join. See link below.

Their seed catalogue is out to members in two weeks.

“HSL members will receive exclusive access to over 150 rare varieties, including 14 brand new additions on Tuesday 18 November 2025.”

#SeedSaving #HeirloomVegetables #UKSeeds #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #SolarPunk #Allotment #HomeGrown

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we-do/hsl

Now this. This is #solarpunk.

A true community-owned gardening project. So many stadiums and sports institutes are just left to rot once they're no longer profitable, instead of being reused for the greater good. Remember, repurposing is always easier than recycling.

Image source: https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1oatw62/taipeis_old_stadium_turned_into_a_community_garden/

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