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