Solarpunk

Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”

A global snapshot of the health of our planet and its people

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US. But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans, with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.

Its winter where I live and winter means cold. Currently its below freezing outside. My offgrid heating is limited to the point I have to sometimes layer up to be comfortable.

Tldr: the author reviews Jeremy Brecher’s Green New Deal From Below, which calls for environmentalist activists to "outflank" Trump's anti-environment federal policies by engaging in “hundreds of arenas at state, local, and civil society levels.” The author compares this approach with green syndicalism and discusses many examples of local collective action, ultimately concluding Brecher's approach relies too much on lobbying politicians and working within the system but can help build the grassroots efforts, alliances, and working class social power necessary for a true green revolution.

An amazing, hopeful story from Anarcasper over on Substack. #solarpunk #resist

Source: https://www.signmedia.ca/guinness-world-record-set-by-edmontons-solar-panel-mural/

LOS ANGELES — To many locals, the Los Angeles River — hugged by concrete embankments and heavy vehicle traffic — hardly seems like a river at all.

Data centres that supply domestic heating aren't new, but I've never seen a distributed model like this before.

“solar mamas” trained in Zanzibar by Barefoot College International, a global nonprofit, through a program that brings light to rural communities and provides jobs for local women. So far in Zanzibar, it has lit 1,845 homes [in 10 years].

India’s solar additions surged 70% year on year to 29.5 GW in the first three quarters of 2025, driven by rapid utility-scale and rooftop deployment, according to JMK Research.

In short, capitalism pays no price for nature’s gifts even though these gifts are immensely valuable. Yet they are valuable in only one of two key senses of value: they have use value but not exchange value. (Exchange value comes into play only later, after they have been harvested, extracted, appropriated, and offered on the market.) Because they have no exchange value, the “free gifts” are free because they are priced at zero.

As artificial intelligence reconfigures every dimension of our societies—from labor markets to classrooms to newsrooms—we should remember the Luddites. Not as caricatures, but in the original sense: People who refuse to accept that the deployment of new technology should be dictated unilaterally by corporations or in cahoots with the government, especially when it undermines workers’ ability to earn a living, social cohesion, public goods, and democratic institutions.

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

Many companies seem to be walking back climate pledges. The sad fate of the Net Zero Banking Alliance is a case in point. But if you peek behind the curtains of this seeming defeat, you’ll find a weird, counter-intuitive phenomenon that seems to be on the rise: many companies are actually continuing or even accelerating their climate goals, while also quietly scrubbing their public acknowledgement of them. In fact, in 2024, the consulting firm South Pole found that in some sectors across the world, the majority of surveyed companies are now intentionally talking less and less about their climate goals. 

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We’re happy to announce the release of the Eco-Libre Life-Line version 2025.10.

After decades of struggle, indigenous leaders and organizers have shown how to win against billionaires and large corporations

That is where many of us are stuck. Overloaded, stretched thin, feeling guilty for resting yet paralysed when we try to take in everything at once. The truth is that the outrage machine wants us this way. It floods our feeds with distraction and despair, demanding we react to every fresh injustice, every scandal, every policy failure. It bleeds us dry until we are too exhausted to act with intention.

The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) is a State of California initiative that provides funding for income qualified residential customers to install solar and battery storage systems on residential property. Solar panel systems provide residents with the ability to generate their own electricity, while battery storage systems can store electricity for use during peak rate periods or in the evenings when solar production decreases.

As people across the United States face massive cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other vital programs, many are asking: What happens when the systems we rely on fail us? And what happens when our communities are torn apart by toxic inequality, political fragmentation and declining social trust?

Maybe not entirely on topic, but I wanted to share it somewhere 😅

An interesting discussion of the anarchistic, individual freedom, and social justice aspects of Green politics, and their dialogue with restrictions on environmentally harmful activity - how did a movement born of the '60s counterculture get itself (falsely) labeled as petty dictators obsessed with taking away people's freedom to consume?

Shloka, a new digital game produced by scholars at the University of California, Santa Cruz, uses Hindu deities, practices, and narratives to communicate the problems of climate change to people in India and throughout the Hindu diaspora. As players encounter gods from their religion who teach them about local issues like water pollution and smog, the culturally familiar framework enables a deeper understanding of climate responsibility.

Conservative apologists for the status quo often stigmatize their opponents as “utopian.” But socialists and feminists shouldn’t be afraid of the term, since utopian thought can play an important role in helping us develop practical alternatives.

Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.

This is an online course (Eastern Time)

I received my backer copy over the summer and been having a blast playing it. Definitely gives me some Solarpunk vibes. The game is also completely compostable and produced using localized production to minimize the international shipping necessary.

Mutual aid is a foundational element of Anarchism, but it is often difficult to translate theory into meaningful action while surviving the hellscape of late stage capitalism. Still, up and down the land there are a variety of practical examples from Food not Bombs stands, to Community Toolsheds, and Infoshops. Free Shops often go under the radar, but can be a vital link for many. If you go down to Boscome in Bournemouth on a Friday, outside Costa, you'll find the Boscome Free Shop, week in, week out, being there, making their community better. We wanted to know more so asked them not only why, but how they do this and how can others looking to find a way to make their anarchism practical start their own.

Hello all, I am new here and wanted to introduce myself and hear y’all’s opinion on something’s I’ve been working on.

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Hey solarpunks!

Solarpunk: A genre and a movement...

Important article discussing why words don't influence people and what can be done instead Also check out Sarah's website https://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com/

I found a project that seems cool.

“At such a critical stage, access to affordable, reliable electricity is paramount."

Last month I released my solarpunk ebook for some emergency hope. At last you can get your hands on the paperback. Discover Neon Riders on Barnes and Noble.

Oakland Critical Mass rolls through the First Friday street festival every month, where I do projection activism. These bicyclists inspired my solarpunk novel, Neon Riders.

For the 250th anniversery of America (honestly, vomit) the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Natural Areas and Preserves is reconstructing the maps and transcribing surveyor notes from the 1800s to create an interactive map of Ohio's presettlememt habitats.

publication croisée depuis : https://jlai.lu/post/23348432