An intertidal habitat for marine life constructed by the company Living SeawallsSeawalls are causing intertidal habitats to vanish as ocean levels increase. But eco-entrepreneurs say artificial rockpools and crevices can save wildlife“Species that inhabit the intertidal zone have … | Continue reading
is-solarpunk:Accessible solarpunkIf a better future isn’t for everyone, then it’s not a better future. Therefore, solarpunk have to be accessible. If it’s not possible, solarpunk strives for accessibility.It may be hard to imagine accessible infrastructure while living in a place … | Continue reading
Oakland’s Radical Plant Nursery Breaks the Prison CyclePermaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to East Oakland, California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage and benefits to … | Continue reading
More than 100 square miles of roads, farms and homes in the formerly dry lake bed between Fresno and Bakersfield remain submerged in the entrenched floodwaters. Additional land is expected to go under through summer as record Sierra Nevada snow melts into rivers that fill the lak … | Continue reading
The Interspecies Festival London UK: The Treaty of Finsbury ParkThe Treaty of Finsbury Park is an immersive fiction that looks at what it would be like if other species were to rise up and demand equal rights with humans. What that means is you, as a human, can come and take part … | Continue reading
“News that the Antarctic current was starting to slow like a hose with a crimp is fair warning. I don’t say all this in the service of despair, but of preparation. We need to be psychologically prepared for the fact that, for all we’ve tried to do together, this crisis is about … | Continue reading
Autonomous Self-Burying Seed Carriers for Aerial SeedingAerial seeding can quickly cover large and physically inaccessible areas to improve soil quality and scavenge residual nitrogen in agriculture, and for post fire reforestation and wildland restoration. However, it suffers fr … | Continue reading
A Liquid Tree? Scientists in Serbia Make Incredible InnovationDr. Ivan Spasojevic, Ph.D. in Biophysical sciences, and one of the authors on the project from the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade, developed an innovative tool for reducing green … | Continue reading
How to turn your Neighborhood into a VillagePermaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Portland, Oregon to talk with architect Mark Lakeman, founder of Communitecture Architecture and the City Repair Project. Mark initiated a movement in Portland to transform the homogen … | Continue reading
The NHS worker singlehandedly rewilding kelp forests in Sussex: What kelp remains, he noticed, is resilient, and he began to wonder if a restoration project could simply “reboot the whole system”. When a new law in 2021 banned trawling in 200 square kilometres of Sussex’s inshore … | Continue reading
Gogoro battery swap station Taiwan. | Continue reading
OFFESTdeveloping a first-of-a-kind methodology for transforming industrial sabotage and other forms of direct action into carbon offsets. Browse our repository of case studies or propose a new one for analysis.WHAAAT!???? Not sure if design fiction? 🤔Either way, carbon cr … | Continue reading
Friend of the blog, and intellectual sparing partner Paul Graham Raven has two interrelated posts out today. The first:The Unbearable Lightness of Solarpunk Published by (other friends of the blog) fo.am collective as part of their Hip Deep in the Thick Present series.Paul conclu … | Continue reading
SolarPunk: Rewilding BritainWith a total forest cover of around 13% compared to the European average of 48% as of 2020, the United Kingdom is one of the least densely forested countries in all of Europe.We at Cooked Illustrations thought about making an awareness and action ca … | Continue reading
Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years agoA new study finds that Exxon’s projections were as good as any academic’sAt the beginning of the 1980s, Exxon’s own scientists had warned that continuing to burn fossil fuels would lead to “catastrophic” and “irr … | Continue reading
Invisible SolarInvisible Solar is a new PV technology that take on the appearance of any building material. Each Invisible Solar module is more than a photovoltaic panel, it also is an active architectural element with various functionality.Disguising solar panels as ancient Roma … | Continue reading
“Our lives are caught between climate change, pandemics, wars, market crashes, biodiversity collapses, and supply chain disruptions. The new normal, it seems, is one where apocalyptic narratives predominate and where precarity is to be expected or even embraced. Many efforts to h … | Continue reading
What if We Cancel the Apocalypse?: Solarpunk is both pragmatic and utopian. It has to incorporate the latter because that allows us to push the boundaries of what is considered possible. At the same time, being pragmatic is a way of bringing back the reader (or listener) to the p … | Continue reading
In France, solar just got a huge boost from new legislation approved through the Senate this week that requires all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – be covered by solar panels.Starting July 1, 2023, smaller carparks that have between 80 … | Continue reading
Guerrilla gardening action on unclaimed Mission parcel draws joy, angerNeighbors have long advocated for turning the 23,522-square-foot area into a public green space.“Their desire to use it as private parking is no more entitled than our right to make it a green space, and so in … | Continue reading
Greece runs entirely on renewables for the first time in its history: plantyhamchuk:“On Friday (7 October), for a period of around five hours, the country was running off entirely renewable power, reaching a record high of 3,106MWh at eight o’clock (GMT).“For the first time in th … | Continue reading
Plant Machete by David Bowen This installation enables a live plant to control a machete. plant machete has a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical noises found in a live philodendron. The system uses an open source micro-controller connected to the plant to read … | Continue reading
Solar Panels (Radiolaria Series)The Solar Panels (Radiolaria Series) are a collection of functional 100W Photovoltaic generators, engraved with enlarged microscopic images of radiolaria: microscopic sea creatures who construct elaborate mineral skeletons from silica. The Radio … | Continue reading
The limit(ation)s of literacy: meandering toward a (trans)media ecology of futuresBecause, as I point out early in the talk, all futures are narratives, and all futures are thus media(ted). This has important implications for those of us producing futures, with regard to both the … | Continue reading
Maximize the harvest by diverting water from one side of street to the otherBrad Lancaster, author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond takes us on a walk though a neighbourhood in Tucson Arizona in the rain. He explains the street basin food forest system, the design … | Continue reading
Solarpunk: Telling Hopeful Stories for a Better Tomorrow with Phoebe WagnerPhoebe Wagner is an author, editor, and academic, writing and living at the intersection of speculative fiction and ecology. Wagner’s debut novel A Shot of Gin is forthcoming from Parliament House Press (2 … | Continue reading
solarpunkfuturenow:Rechargeable aluminum: The cheap solution to seasonal energy storage?Rechargeable aluminum: The cheap solution to seasonal energy storage? | Continue reading
Zero Emissions Isn’t Enough. We Need Climate Repair.: Solarpunk author and friend of the blog Andrew Dana Hudson has a long article in Jacobin this week arguing that society needs to *think bigger*. Halting global warming at 1.5 degrees isn’t the same as actual climate repair. Ca … | Continue reading
mostlysignssomeportents:Last Saturday, I sat in a crowded ballroom at Caesar’s Forum in Las Vegas and watched Sickcodes jailbreak a John Deere tractor’s control unit live, before an audience of cheering Defcon 30 attendees (and, possibly, a few undercover Deere execs, who often a … | Continue reading
Olafur Eliasson Designs a Canonical Structure with 832 Vibrant Glass Panels That Reflect Sonoma’s WeatherDrawing on the microclimate of the vineyard, the studio constructed the mosaic of translucent and transparent panels using meteorological measurements of solar radiance, w … | Continue reading
solarpunks: One of the most curious facts about living as we do today is that our future does not, strictly speaking, exist. This fact has been well elaborated by Bruce Sterling over the past few years (“Atemporality for the Creative Artist” being especially good), and picked up … | Continue reading
For the first time in 6,000 years, European bison are back in the British woodlands.The Bison have now been in The Blean for just three days.The Wildwood Trust video above documents the impact these magnificent animals are already having on the local ecosystem.It also details the … | Continue reading
“The council came at 5am and took our garden away”In May 2020, we woke up at 8am and saw a text from a neighbour saying ‘where is your garden?’, and it had just disappeared. My partner put up posters saying ‘missing garden’. Then we discovered the council had come at 5am and take … | Continue reading
thejaymo: Bought some art from Jessica Perlstein#solarpunkSo happy to have a print of this!! | Continue reading
industrialorganiser:Putting the punk into solarpunk Farmer Geddon | Continue reading
“The fact is it just hasn’t really sunk in, even in the science community, that we’ve effectively lost the ice sheets. It’s just a matter of time before we see many metres of sea level rise. Society has to now brace itself for a catastrophe.” - Jason Box | Faster than Forecast“t … | Continue reading
This cargo ship from 1909 is starting to make zero-emissions deliveries againSailcargo doesn’t expect to replace the massive industry. But as companies look for ways to reduce emissions, it can offer a solution that works now. Because it doesn’t use shipping containers—goods are … | Continue reading