Solarpunk
What the hell is it?
In an age where all mainstream projections of the future look grim, the thought that we can make things better, and even thrive, in the face of collapse, is subversive and revolutionary. The worsening climate crisis may have robbed us of the future we were raised to live in, but that doesn't mean we can't build one for ourselves .
Notes Toward a Manifesto
Many of us feel it’s unethical to bring children into a world like ours. We have grown up under a shadow, and if we sometimes resemble fungus it should be taken as a credit to our adaptability.
Permacomputing
Dark Mountain Manifesto
XXIIVV on Solarpunk
Walkaway Manifesto
Totalism.org
Alexander von Humboldt
(links by me)
The idea of interconnectedness is central to Alexander von Humboldt’s intellectual pursuits. His relentless curiosity drove him to explore the messy reality of nature. Before Humboldt’s time, the role of the scientist was like one of the librarian – classify, label, and shelve facts. The most recent breakthrough of the natural sciences was the binomial classification – a system of grouping species originating from counting how many teeth or hooves they may have. Humboldt quite prophetically was opposed to such one-dimensional treatment of Nature and relegating science to forever slicing up the world into smaller pieces so they can neatly fit on a bookshelf. ~
Solarpunk Links
PNW’s ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people
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By weaving open source permacultural and technological cycles together, we intend to provide basic human needs while being good stewards of the land, using resources sustainably, and pursuing right livelihood. With the gift of openly shared information, we can produce industrial products locally using open source design and digital fabrication. This frees us from the need to participate in the wasteful resource flows of the larger economy by letting us produce our own materials and components for the technologies we use. We see small, independent, land-based economies as means to transform societies, address pressing world issues, and evolve to freedom.
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Schumacher promoted “the technology of production by the masses” — a localist approach that tailored technologies to the needs of the communities they served, with an emphasis on long-term and harder-to-quantify goods like creative expression, skill development, and sustainability. He was heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, who believed that the widespread adoption — or readoption — of low-cost technologies would help villages satisfy the basic needs of their residents, foster local autonomy, and create meaningful employment.
Providing decent living with minimum energy
We find that global final energy consumption in 2050 could be reduced to the levels of the 1960s, despite a population three times larger. However, such a world requires a massive rollout of advanced technologies across all sectors, as well as radical demand-side changes to reduce consumption – regardless of income – to levels of sufficiency.
This filter is really good at turning saltwater into freshwater
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At the very least, if we can’t build infrastructure to last we should build infrastructure that can be repaired using materials, energy and skills that are likely to be around when it inevitably fails, at some point in the future. Serious people are seriously doubting whether we will have the oil and energy necessary to maintain existing roads in the coming two decades (let alone expand them to match the never ending growth of our urban sprawl).
We will never run out of cobblestone.
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Plans, tools and information to help you build renewable energy and conservation projects.
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The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a large cell visible by the unaided eye. It behaves as an intelligent nonlinear spatially extended active medium encapsulated in an elastic membrane. The cell optimises its growth patterns in configurations of attractants and repellents. This behaviour is interpreted as computation. Numerous prototypes of slime mould computers were designed to solve problems of computational geometry, graphs and transport networks and to implement universal computing circuits.
Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
Books
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Masanobu Fukuoka
One Straw Revolution 3.2MB
Natural Way of Farming 2.2MB