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
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