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

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

#solarPunk #mutualAid

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I'd like to see jupiter.blue at the triple point of #cyberpunk, #biopunk, and #solarpunk.

Player actions disproportionally influence the direction the "story" goes.

Cyberpunk: A picotech dystopia dominated by the economics & corporations of the Europa Trade Zone.

Biopunk: The quest for bodily autonomy, and the rise of more and more synthetic humanoids.

Solarpunk: A utopian perspective on fates, scarcity and abundance, sharing and collectivism, and adapting (to/the) inhospitable environments.

tired: petrostate

wired: petromafia

based: #solarpunk

This is what I've learned this year. Suit it to taste/#climate.
Fava beans, lentils and/or Scarlet runners depending on the temperatures.
Swiss chard, figs and blackberries, woodland or alpine strawberries depending on climate.
Mulberry trees, hazelnuts, and chives. There is also something called tree kale or purple tree collard.
Amaranth grows where it's very hot. Use the beans and #composting to nurture the soil.
3-4 Kilowatt hour incoming #solar charge, and about 9 to 10 KW hours of lithium phosphorus batteries.
Run nothing but 48 volt systems or you're wasting your time.
This radiant installation pictured below has given me a 20° variance between external and internal temperatures.
I use the lights from some cloning chambers I built into the house to stabilize the temperatures through the winter. Vent heat from LED light fixtures into the house. If you need more heat, use a wood burning stove.
It gets a little chilly but it can drop below 20° f and it stays habitable inside.
This is one layer of the insulation, my math called for two. Halfway done I will still make it through this winter.
I use the water storage to further stabilize the temperature.
I made it 80% of the year with just this pitiful water catchment system I installed in a hurry.
It is two small tarps going into a shady 30 gallon water bucket.
The upgrade will be an 8x8 tarp headed into a 50 gallon rain barrel.
The gardens take more water than humans. For months sometimes it's simply will refuse to rain.
When it does rain, the power takes a hit thus of the batteries.
Expect to put the farm ahead of everything else.
Cut down invasive trees. Use them for firewood and to hide you from the outside.
Do not bulldoze Fern Gully. Any clearing you create will then have to be managed.
A composting toilet that separates the liquid is essential.
Be mindful of bugs at all times in all places or eventually they will remind you forcefully that they exist.
An #ecosystem of dragonflies, lizards, and bats has sprung up to deal with endless swarms of insects.
Yellow jackets live nearby and outnumber the bees 50 to one. The yellow jackets and wasp do most of the pollinating as unfortunate as that is.
In this new world you have forbidden bees or nothing.
Birds are a double-edged sword, but there is nothing worse than an unchecked bug swarm being your existence for the rest of your life.
Squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, All manner of groundhog, hedgehogs, larger animals such as deer join the crows.
Work something out with the birds, work something out with a yellow jackets, work something out with the animals and the trees.
You are building an ecosystem, a small world.
The condensation from the leaves creates a rain every morning.
I'm not sure what tipping point stops this, but I have no plans to find out.
This kind of depends on going #vegan, I'm not going to lie. Supplement it with textured vegetable protein, nutritional yeast, and multivitamins.
A simple thing is to glob peanut butter into a bowl of course cut oats, then sprinkle with cinnamon.
You should plan on some sort of internet connection, recreation, and a shower or two at least every week, or you will quickly go mad.
Time your heavy labor for shower days. That way you won't be stuck gross.
Keep peroxide, witch hazel, creams, and health and beauty aides of course on hand.
Wash your clothes in a bustub and rinse them out in the storms.
Learn to build fences and barriers both living and material. Grow blackberry up a deer fence made of t-post, these posts can be driven to anchor a row of cinder blocks to the ground. This will also deter vehicles. A layer of barbed wire deters humans.
Create walls of hazel and figs. Learn to work the #hedge.
#ClimateDiary #Permaculture #Homestead #Anarchy #SolarPunk

I am a master of my craft. If you're looking for a plant list. Here's what I've taken with me after a lifetime of study and work
Cool: Lentils, Fava beans, Swiss chard, Kale, Spinach.
Warm: Amaranth, Sunflower, Seminole pumpkin, Scarlet runner beans.
Other: Blackberry, Mulberry, Fig, Hazelnut, Alpine strawberry.
Rotate to taste.
This is for whatever the climate zone is in Alabama for the year 2024. Assume it will not be the same for long and adapt accordingly.

Don't waste your time with July and August 🔥🚒

Don't waste your time with December and January ❄️
#Permaculture #Gardening #Green #Solarpunk

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)

Social and environmental justice, minority and worker rights, equitable distribution of resources

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.

#solarPunk #mutualAid

the mira drone trading card

made with fedi trading card maker

#fedicard #robotgirl #solarpunk #trashplanting

"What I learned was, every dollar I was spending, I was part of systems of destruction."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DaZ-Qz5cWY

This video is for people who don't know the "WHY" behind moneyless society.

#Freeeconomy #resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #ubi #gifteconomy #openaccesseconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety #selfsufficientcommunities #selfsufficiency #diylife #selfreliance #offgrid #ecovillages #ecovillage #anarchism #anarchocommunism #communism #intentionalcommunity
#climatechange #intentionalcommunities
#antiAuthoritarianism #antiauthoritarian #antiwork #Donatetimenotmoney #volunteering
#humanity #simpleliving #sustainableliving
#solarpunk #conciousliving #consciousliving

Several of our local parks have free bike repair stations.

They include a bike stand, tire pump, and multiple various tools for repairing and tuning your bicycle!

#rightToRepair #solarPunk

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It's my pleasure to announce https://storyseedlibrary.org/ - a #library of #solarpunk #art and story seeds to help you imagine a better #climate future!

Huge thanks to all the artists who shared their art under various #creativeCommons licenses, including @the_lemonaut , @NiwlCraft and @jacobcoffin ! No AI will replace handcrafted art!

If you liked our @SolarpunkPrompts #podcast , the Story Seeds are expanding its concept - soon with more, unpublished ones!

#climateChange #illustration #writing

Ein paar kostenfreie #Fediversum - Ressourcen fürs verlängerte #Wochenende : Der #Livemitschnitt der Buchvorstellung von #Verschwörungsmythen im Stuttgarter #Hospitalhof. Der auf #Solarpunk umgestellte YT-Kanal mit einem #Short als Erklärvideo zur Bewegung. Und natürlich 1 #Blogpost mit moderierter Kommentarfunktion.

Allen von Herzen ein schönes Wochenende mit begründeter #Hoffnung & mitmenschlicher #Freude! Wünscht 1 Schwabe! :-) https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/verschwoerungsmythen-buchvorstellung-in-der-audiothek-solarpunk-als-youtube-short/

Urban Infrastructure in Barcelona, Spain.

Video credit: beteve.cat

#solarPunk #transit #publicTransit #publicTransportation #trains

Looking to replace Duolingo?

Your library might provide you free access to Language Learning Apps.

No, not CDs or cassette tapes (when was the last time you were at the library? ).

Actual apps. That you download onto your phone.

My library provides me access to TWO language learning apps that compete directly with Duolingo. Mango Language App and Transparent Language App.

What apps does your library provide?

#duolingo #library #solarPunk

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Wenn Menschen mitbekommen, dass ich seit Jahren #vegetarisch lebe, schalten manche in den Verteidigungs- & andere in den Angriffsmodus.

Deswegen hier mal eine ruhige Erläuterung, warum ich mich als Wissenschaftler, Christ und #Solarpunk entschieden habe, kein #Fleisch aus industrieller #Massentierhaltung mehr zu essen. Und warum ich mich dabei nicht für einen "besseren Menschen" halte, niemandem etwas verbieten möchte. #Wissenschaft #Tierhaltung #Klimakrise #Wasserkrise https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/alle-koennen-etwas-tun-solarpunk-und-fleischverzicht/

Hello, Tradeless Earth is a project promoting moneyless society.

We don't accept funds, because it's anti-trade of course.

But we need help:

• First is finding people interested in more just,equal and sustainable world to join the conversation.

• Helping us migrate our website to their own server.
If someone has to spare.

• Helping in research about the content we add on website.

*Doesn't matter if you can spare only half hour per week. Everything counts!

#Donate #Donatetimenotmoney #volunteer #volunteering #mutualaid #contribute
#Freeeconomy #resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #ubi #gifteconomy #openaccesseconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety #selfsufficientcommunities #selfsufficiency #diylife #selfreliance #offgrid #ecovillages #ecovillage #anarchism #anarchocommunism #communism #intentionalcommunity
#climatechange #intentionalcommunities
#antiAuthoritarianism #antiauthoritarian #antiwork
#humanity #simpleliving #sustainableliving
#solarpunk

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

Until June 16 - Part 1 of "A New Faith" can be downloaded in #PDF or #EPUB format #drmfree

If you like it, please subscribe for the rest of the story.

#solarpunk #climatefiction #sciencefiction #fiction #climatechange #adaptation #migration #novel #amwriting #writingcommunity #bookstodon

I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/special-interview-with-ada-palmer-history-of-ideas-and-our-climate-imaginations

#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

Heute habe ich gute #Solarpunk - Nachrichten! 📰

Die Produktion an #Ökostrom , v.a. an #Solarenergie steigt so schnell, dass es immer öfter #Strom - Überschüsse (!) gibt. Wenn also jetzt noch die bereits bestehenden (!) #Speicher - Technologien wie #bidirektionalesLaden, #RedoxFlowBatterien & grüner #Wasserstoff schneller hochgefahren werden, kann #Deutschland seine #Energiewende mit erneuerbaren #Wohlstandsenergien schaffen! 🇩🇪🇪🇺🔋🙌🌞 https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/zuviel-oekostrom-solarstrom-speicher-in-deutschland-schaffen-erneuerbare-wohlstandsenergien-jetzt/

Chapters 27 and 28 of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats

#solarpunk #hopepunk #clifi #book #bookstodon #novel #fiction #scifi #climate #adaptation #migration #mystery #thriller #booksky #amwriting #authorsky #WritersCoffeeClub #WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers #PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #climatefiction

📰 "New research shows that shoreline litter has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans around the U.S. have gone into effect."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/banning-plastic-bags-really-works-shoreline-litter-slashed-by-47pt-in-us/

#goodnews #environment #solarpunk #possitivenews

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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Part 3 begins!

Finally, the stakes come into focus.
How does it all end?

Chapter 29 of "A New Faith" is up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats

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