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collecting ideas and inspiration for my future off grid home

[afrosolarpunk]

I‘m making this blog to collect and share off grid living as well as solarpunk ideas and inspiration. I‘m an African born and raised in Europe who eventually intends to return to my homeland. Since I have access to land, I wanted to start collecting ideas on what to eventually build on that land.

I‘m fortunate enough to have visited my ancestral village many times as a child. This is why I‘m really into the idea of putting the old and new together to solve problems of traditional african living, which is off grid living by nature. The idea of solarpunk is perfect for this. Other things that interest me are building with natural materials, regenerative farming and permaculture.

[wanderthewood]

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Picking vegetables at the Eden Project - St Blazey, Cornwall, England by franieK

!! this is beautiful !!

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I know "walkable cities" is considered a buzzword and urbanists are increasingly seen as preachy liberal wonks, but we're literally right. If you spend enough time in an American city outside the literal bubble of your car you will see people carrying groceries along the shoulders of freeways, running for their lives to cross a street, or waiting for an hour to catch a delayed bus. If you read local obituaries about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, they're not white tech bros in spandex but people in redlined neighborhoods without proper sidewalks. You spend enough time trying to own the urbanist nerds and oops, you start condoning a status quo that is overtly cruel and racist.

[happyheidi]

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[shreygoyal]

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Delaware will give free solar panels to low-income residents

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The new pilot program will also cover 70% of rooftop solar costs for moderate-income participants.

Delaware will give free solar panels to low-income residents

The new pilot program will also cover 70 percent of rooftop solar costs for moderate-income participants.

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[inqilabi]

Um this woman is living the dream

[ladytharen]

#god i wish that were me

[headspace-hotel]

Not only is this lady not the asshole, we should organize our society more like her life

[kijiboop]

[dare-to-dm]

Not to brag, but last year a couple good friends bought a house just the block down from mine.  And just this month another couple of friends but a house next to them.  So like, I’m pretty happy about having those wonderful people within easy walking distance.  Now I just need to convince a few more people to relocate to my neighborhood and it’s the next best thing to living in a commune!

[afrosolarpunk]

This reminds me of living in an African village or compound. At the end of the day, the most important is having people around you and sharing living spaces and resources like gardens. It's also much healthier for ones mental health. Like a commune than isn't a cult or something similar is the best set up and it's interesting people somewhat naturally crave that.

[shreygoyal]

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We can increase our average yield by stopping growing food in areas of land that aren’t productive, and in these areas we can make space for nature. We can improve farm biodiversity without affecting yields.

Nature-friendly farming does not reduce productivity, study finds

Results of 10-year project reveal that rewilding areas can boost biodiversity and crop yields

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[oumaimas]

Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to the planet, to human health

[oumaimas]

this is why i can never look at brutalist architecture and enjoy it tbh. concrete is capitalism made visible, made into bridges and useless buildings. concrete is and looks so thoroughly violent to me. a look at big cities and their lack of permeable soil will break my heart.

[afrosolarpunk]

You can listen to the article here too!

[kingchai]

haley heyderickx, oom sha la la / katherine riegel, what i would like to grow in my garden 

[brianrwa]

Saturday arvo raining here in Perth Western Australia

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Feeling climate anxiety? Here are five reasons for hope | Greenpeace UK

If you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis, here’s a handy tip. Focus on the little victories and the small steps f

HOPE!

[happyheidi]

Black girls with gardens 🍃

Link to their shops

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Josephine Baker, Gardner, 1938 

Josephine Baker tending her garden at the Chateau des Milandes, her home from 1937 to 1969

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And

they’re still doing it.

[laxave]

[alllelements]

I don't know if this makes sense but one of the reasons I love solarpunk so much is that it explicitly places hope at the center of the movement and therefore kind of.. takes away this daunting task of having to find hope on my own. Like, sometimes trying to stay hopeful in the face of everything that's happening seems impossible and can be so exhausting and isolating. But the hope that comes with solarpunk has been built up by a community of people rather than painfully and repeatedly dredged up out of some deep corner of my own mind, and it makes it that much easier to not fall into this well of dispair that seems to be constantly lurking nearby.