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
southernsolarpunk:ALTNew art!!!! I’ve been getting back into graphic design recently! 2024 is going to be my draw whatever I want without stressing era (I will probably stress) | Continue reading
illustrawrrr:I played VRChat and VR the majority of my time during covid from 2020 - 2022 and it became a legitimate addiction… it was bad.. this is my Vent artwork on how isolating it really made me feel in my real life and how desperate I was for a real life. | Continue reading
Deep in the Wilderness, the World’s Largest Beaver Dam EnduresThe world’s largest beaver dam is not like human dams. It does not stopper a river, or even a stream or rivulet. Its low half-mile barrier collects small trickles that come off a plateau called the Birch Mountains. Alo … | Continue reading
WaterLight is a portable lantern that can be charged with salt water or urineColombian renewable energy start-up E-Dina has developed a cordless light that converts salt water into electricity as a more reliable alternative to solar lamps in off-grid communities.The portable devi … | Continue reading
biteable-pink-pixie:bl00dygf:Nice hands bro can you hold both my wrists with just one? | Continue reading
the-lemonaut:ALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTCharacters co-owned w @_magic.stardust_ on IG ✨ (a couple more comics abt this on my account already)I’m not a very positive person, i have a LOT of doomer tendencies. I feel everything like it’s cranked up to the max, and as you can ima … | Continue reading
From Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it | Continue reading
“Any near-future science fiction that does not engage with climate change is fantasy" - Sarena Ulibarri | Continue reading
alpaca-clouds:The history of SolarpunkOkay, I guess this has to be said, because the people will always claim the same wrong thing: No, Solarpunk did not “start out as an aesthetic”. Jesus, where the hell does this claim even come from? Like, honestly, I am asking.Solarpunk start … | Continue reading
In Idaho, beavers can be something of nuisance, chewing down trees and building dams that flood yards and fields. In the 1930s, officials began trapping beavers near cities and towns and dropping them — sometimes by parachute — into remote areas.In one such area, Baugh Creek, bea … | Continue reading
A rendering of a rooftop terrace installed by the Parisian startup Roofscapes.Paris When It Sizzles: The City of Light Aims to Get Smart on HeatWith its zinc roofs and minimal tree cover, Paris was not built to handle the new era of extreme heat. Now, like other cities worldwide, … | Continue reading
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