Beyond Aesthetic: Artworks Imagining a Future for Humans and NaturePHNOM PENH — Cambodian and international artists recently incorporated ideas of green technologies and sustainable strategies into their artworks to reflect the need for sustainable development and climate action. … | Continue reading
Adam visits the testing site for ICON, a company that designs and makes 3D printers for printing entire structures and houses! We learn how printing reinforced concrete works and get a preview of their next-gen multistory printer. How long does it take to print an entire house? | Continue reading
Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by sideImagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that’s precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale agrivoltaic … | Continue reading
Artists from across the region are invited to apply for a new “solarpunk”-inspired digital art exhibition and Cambodia-based residency that reimagines a sustainable future rooted in local culture and community resilienceRead more hereArtists retain full copyright and printing cos … | Continue reading
Vietnam setting bans on gasoline motorcycles next year, followed by carsStarting next summer, the major downtown areas of Hanoi will ban all gasoline-powered motorcycles as part of a program to cut down on emissions.The plan will go into effect on July 1, 2026, and then will expa … | Continue reading
solarpunkbusiness:Ugandan duo wins top innovation prizes in Europe for breakthrough fruit preservation technologyUgandan entrepreneurs Sandra Namboozo (26) and Samuel Muyita (28) have scooped both the People’s Choice and Community Healers awards at the prestigious 2025 Young Inve … | Continue reading
the-lemonaut:the-lemonaut:Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rantALTALTALTALTALTALTHopefully this is helpful to someone out there You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out this digital library full of Creative Commons Solarpunk art (neither o … | Continue reading
solarpunkfuturenow:Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes | Business | The GuardianBritons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes | Business | The Guardian https://share.google/A3aQPNdUnB57E8MJuBritons could soon insta … | Continue reading
jumpbuddhagun:The Political Dimensions of Solarpunk…Ten Years LaterIn 2015 I wrote a long essay about the politics of the solarpunk movement I saw emerging on Tumblr. Today, I’m revisiting that essay to see how it held up. Friend of the blog @jumpbuddhagun / Andrew Dana Hudson ha … | Continue reading
ultrafacts:The IGA Extra Famille Duchemin supermarket in Montreal features a 25,000 square-foot rooftop garden. Established in 2017, it produces over 30 varieties of organic vegetables, herbs, and even honey from on-site beehives. This produce is harvested and sold directly in th … | Continue reading
Bus Stops Here: Shanghai Lets Riders Design Their Own Routes Shanghai is rolling out a new kind of public bus — one that’s designed by commuters, and launched only when enough riders request it.Branded “DZ” for dingzhi, or “customized,” the system invites residents to submit prop … | Continue reading
the-lemonaut:ALTFinally finding out what this Solarpunk illustration I drew for @andrew-ism back in February is for. It’s featured in this video :D I have yet to watch it but I trust it’ll be good.This is meant to be a mall that’s been repurposed by and for the community, turned … | Continue reading
solarpunkbusiness:The panels capture less sunlight when used as fencing than they do on roofs, but the process saves on high labour and scaffolding costs, according to analysts and posts on social media by households that have installed them.“This is the result of solar panels ge … | Continue reading
We are not destructive by nature, but by habit. Our potential for destruction is mirrored by our potential for regeneration. If we recognize our true role as a keystone species, we can be the primary vector for restoring ecosystems and healing the earth.- Neal Spackman | Continue reading
koko-mochi:I was talking to my dad about renewable energy and he was like “the only problem with solar farms is they take up so much space.”And it made me think about a city and how much sun exposure all the rooftops in a city get and…why not just make the city it’s own solar far … | Continue reading
Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%French agrivoltaics company Sun’Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fluctuations, reducing summer he … | Continue reading
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in BakuWell, there's a headline that seems to pretty much cover it... | Continue reading
An excerpt from a talk by Richard Perkins from Ridgedale Farm - one of the worlds most influential small farms - at GEN Global Ecovillage Network Meeting 2024, SwedenRidgedale Farm is one of the... | Continue reading
Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids The reconstruction of the power grid in the areas of Appalachia where it was wrecked by Helene will ultimately offer a chance for the utility industry to rethink how the electricity system sho … | Continue reading
montereybayaquarium: Just follow these easy steps: ✅ Assemble kelp parts in cold, nutrient-rich water ✅ Add fish and invertebrates ✅ Add sea otters! 🦦 ✅ Watch your kelp forest thrive ⚠️Warning: Without sea otters, your kelp forest may end up with an urchin overload! ALT A … | Continue reading
thejaymo:Turning Brownfields to Blooming Meadows, With the Help of Fungie360: How did the sites look different after the work that you did on them?Stevenson: They became basically beautiful meadows of native plants that were flowering, and now there are bees and birds and all sor … | Continue reading
This bird came back from extinction - now scientists in a glider are teaching it to migrate Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to Spain Fritz was inspired by the … | Continue reading
solarpunks: 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 a … | Continue reading
khaleesi: great-and-small: great-and-small: Watching Przewalski’s horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years It’s my time to shine as a horse girl!! These horses went extinct in the wild 60 years ago! They were reintroduced in other parts of Mongolia … | Continue reading
southernsolarpunk: Maybe controversial opinion but my favorite trope in solarpunk is the “building a better world with or without your permission” rather than stories focusing on the end goal of solarpunk. My first solarpunk collection I read was Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk an … | Continue reading
SOLARPUNKS Archives RSS Reference Guide Solarpunks Zine Tags Ask. Submit? At once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, and an achievable lifestyle. In progress... Since 2012 21 June 2024 24 notes solar power solar pv solar panels energy transition graph predictions N … | Continue reading
“You want to get a site to the point where the biomass that’s produced every year exceeds what is eaten by the beavers. It’s a simple equation, right? And now you’ve got a sustainable ecosystem with beavers. That’s what we’re working on out here.” | Continue reading
basketofmooneggs: ALT This pocket no longer drops things. 😍 | Continue reading
rjzimmerman: As Insurers Around the U.S. Bleed Cash From Climate Shocks, Homeowners Lose Excerpt from this story from the New York Times: At first glance, Dave Langston’s predicament seems similar to headaches facing homeowners in coastal states vulnerable to catastrophic hurrica … | Continue reading
For over 300 years, La Maison du Pastel has handcrafted these pastel sticks, used by artists like Degas and Monet. | Continue reading
thejaymo: The American Climate Corps is now hiring You can now apply to be one of the first members of the American Climate Corps. “You’ll get paid to fight climate change, learning how to install those solar panels, fight wildfires, rebuild wetlands, weatherize homes, and so muc … | Continue reading
chase-prairie: if you wanna know what my dissertation is about, it’s pretty much this! Please share your dissertation when its done! | Continue reading
bumblebeeappletree: So a while ago I commissioned @thefruitloop-chan to make a Solarpunk poster for anyone to use! And this beautiful piece was made! This is a blank for people to put text on, and here’s the two text ones that I put over Anyone can print them and put them up and … | Continue reading
southernsolarpunk: ALT I was inspired by 60s psychedelic posters, Coca Cola, and this poster from 1967. Since I’ve moved, I have had so much more time to work on my art, so this summer I’m going to be pushing out more. | Continue reading
sophie-frm-mars: I am once again thinking about digging holes It’s so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that remov … | Continue reading
farmwitch: Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation. Two acres of wheat planted and harvested by the artist on the Battery Park landfill, Manhattan, summer 1982. | Continue reading
India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust Each month, this upskilled team produces bodies and chassis for nearly 5,000 three-wheeler EVs, locally known as e-rickshaws, for the New Delhi-based YC Electric, India’s … | Continue reading
Solarpunk: Theory, Fiction, and Radical Futures Oh hello there. Online course on solarpunk coming up at the Brooklyn Institute starting in April. This course will focus on the philosophical and imaginary turn towards radical optimism in the face of climate change. We will delve i … | Continue reading
junaidrao: #Design The recently completed “Seoullo 7017” Skygarden, an abandoned overpass turned elevated park modeled after the High Line in NYC, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea [2000×1334] Designed by Rotterdam-based practice MVRDV, Seoullo 7017 is a 16-meter-tall steel-and-c … | Continue reading
Awful’s Gas and Snack (Swing Shift Collective, 2019) Awful’s Gas & Snack is a life-size fake gas station from the year 2119, designed to help people imagine a positive future after the climate crisis. Offering “AUTHENTIC 20th and 21st century artifacts from the Golden Age of Gaso … | Continue reading
Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope - Dissent Magazine A radical analysis of problems and barriers to change may lead to overwhelming pessimism about any radical program; the hardness of a radical analysis can produce political quietism, with radical programs left to the politi … | Continue reading
We’re a 10-acre urban farm in Phoenix, Arizona on a mission to turn “garbage” into food. We use the power of Red Wiggler Worms, Black Soldier Flies, and hot compost piles to turn Valley waste into natural gardening products, vegetable starts, and produce. What I appreciate about … | Continue reading
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries Dharmawan Kusna Handoyo spends his workday in a 2-by-3-meter cubicle, soldering batteries. He has been building DIY battery packs since 2009, when he installed one in his own electric bike — but in the past few years, it h … | Continue reading
Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO Hearing reports from the Figma guy that SOLARPUNK IS IN. | Continue reading
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of Africa that is harvesting rainwater, increasing food security, and rehabilitating the ecos … | Continue reading