Solarpunk

an [[aesthetic]]

📓 garden/melanocarpa/solarpunk.myco by @melanocarpa ️🔗 ✍️

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Solarpunk is a variant of future with a huge focus on [[sustainability]]. I like it!

= Take

In the wonderful solarpunk future, we do not use telepathy
In the wonderful solarpunk future, we have enough time to not do two things at once

= Links => https://anagora.org/solarpunk

=> https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-solarpunk-community-a-solarpunk-manifesto | A solarpunk manifesto

=> https://t.me/SolarPunk Telegram channel with solarpunk-sustainability-biodiversity-anarchist vibes.

=> https://t.me/badfoxlab/653 Махим Сивоконь рассказывает, что хочет что-то типа солярпанка, но по-севернее.

=> https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/solarpunk.html | Sustainability, longevity, and balance with an emphasis on renewable energy.

=> https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/tools-for-a-solarpunk-future | Tools For A Solarpunk Future

This two-panel harvester in Nepal provides 500 litres of drinking water a day. Under the right conditions fog harvesting can yield incredible results at little cost.

=> https://watersustainabilityandfogwater.wordpress.com/fog-catchers-and-how-to-make-your-own/ | Fog Catchers and How to Make Your Own

=> https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.7b17488 | Fog Harvesting with Harps

Fog harvesting is a useful technique for obtaining fresh water in arid climates. The wire meshes currently utilized for fog harvesting suffer from dual constraints: coarse meshes cannot efficiently capture microscopic fog droplets, whereas fine meshes suffer from clogging issues. Here, we design and fabricate fog harvesters comprising an array of vertical wires, which we call “fog harps”. Under controlled laboratory conditions, the fog-harvesting rates for fog harps with three different wire diameters were compared to conventional meshes of equivalent dimensions. As expected for the mesh structures, the mid-sized wires exhibited the largest fog collection rate, with a drop-off in performance for the fine or coarse meshes. In contrast, the fog-harvesting rate continually increased with decreasing wire diameter for the fog harps due to efficient droplet shedding that prevented clogging. This resulted in a 3-fold enhancement in the fog-harvesting rate for the harp design compared to an equivalent mesh.

=> https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/margaret-killjoy-take-what-you-need-and-compost-the-rest-an-introduction-to-post-civilized-theo#toc3 | Take What You Need And Compost The Rest: an introduction to post-civilized theory

Someone is going to wire up his Super Nintendo to a solar panel array, and folks from all walks of life are going to come over to play Street Fighter, or just to watch.

=> https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=blogs | Blogs and sites on Sunbeam City Wiki

A collection of solarpunk and solarpunk-adjacent blogs or sites, both by people on https://sunbeam.city and elsewhere. A good collection.

=> https://solarpunkanarchists.com

The aesthetic-cultural philosophy of solarpunk and the politics of social anarchism were practically made for each other. This site attempts to combine them.

📓 garden/neil/solarpunk.md by @neil ️🔗 ✍️

Solarpunk

[[I like solarpunk]].

Overview

an [[eco-futurist]] movement
imagining a future most people would actually like to live in
- Instead of ones we should be trying to avoid.
the future as bright, green and sustainable
"sustainable" at a not-just-for-rich-people level
"[[renewable energy]], reusable infrastructure, an end to throwaway culture, room for human dignity, and the possibility for continued flourishing"
"rebellion against the structural pessimism in our late visions of how the future will be. "
powered by [[green energy]]
"prefiguring the world to be created, through science-fiction and fantasy literature, arts, fashion, filmmaking, music, games, and a set of ideas which inform political, economic, and ecological activism"
"the Positive Articulation of a Better World "
"Not content to accept the dictates of a tomorrow ruled by authoritarian states, rapacious corporations, and a despoiled biosphere"

Lineage/context

If cyberpunk was ‘here is this future that we see coming and we don’t like it’, and steampunk is ‘here’s yesterday’s future that we wish we had’, then solarpunk might be ‘here’s a future that we can want and we might actually be able to get.’

Participants

"writers, artists, environmentalists, engineers, scientists, and others"

Politics

Oppositional

Hence the ‘punk’

Punk is more of an ethos than a specific set of signifiers, implying rebellion against, and negation of, the dominant paradigm and everything repressive about it

Combo of localism and globalism

[[Localism]]

one of the healthy things about local resilience is that it puts you in a much better bargaining position against the people who might want to shut you off

Globalism

it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance

Beyond war, domination, and artificial scarcity

Practical present examples

[[Worker cooperatives]]
Self-sufficient eco-communities
directly-democratic popular assemblies
voluntary federations of small polities
mutual aid networks
[[community land trusts]]

Culture

"driven by an overriding ethos of compassionate rationalism, where science and reason are not seen as antithetical to imagination and spirituality, but as concepts which bring out the best in each other"
Culture founded on radical inclusiveness, unity-in-diversity, free cooperation, participatory democracy, and personal self-realisation

"societies of polycultural ethnic diversity and gender liberation, where each person is able to actualise themselves in societal environment of free experimentation and communal caring"

Technology

‘Solar’ is a proxy for clean abundant energy
[[Post-scarcity]]
[[Jugaad]] "an improvised solution born from ingenuity and cleverness"
- Creative re-use of existing infrastructure
High tech back ends with simple outputs
"decentralised eco-cities, 3D printing, vertical farms, solar glass windows"
Automation of human labour
Technology that is restorative
- Examples
  - "solar and wind and wave energy, 3D printing, vertical farming, micro-manufacturing, free software, open-source hardware, and robotic machinery which can automate away human"

Aesthetics

Not too sure about these
Art nouveau
It should make space for multiple aesthetics
"wild or inventive forms of dress and design"
"vibrant cosmopolitan aesthetic"

Notes/criticism

Where does science fit in?

Ingenuity should not be in adversity to institutionalised science

I think it fits quite well with Inventing the Future
"sometimes “positive futures” are framed in terms of technological megaprojects, which has a whiff of the Promethean about it"
"crafting positive or utopian futures is really hard and valuable work at this particular moment"
Critique solarpunk from [[Inventing the Future]] perspective
Which country is closest to solarpunk already?