GodLoveYell

[justalittlesolarpunk]

I’ve teased it. You’ve waited. I’ve procrastinated. You’ve probably forgotten all about it.

But now, finally, I’m here with my solarpunk resources masterpost!

YouTube Channels:

Andrewism

The Solarpunk Scene

Solarpunk Life

Solarpunk Station

Our Changing Climate

Podcasts:

The Joy Report

How To Save A Planet

Demand Utopia

Solarpunk Presents

Outrage and Optimisim

From What If To What Next

Solarpunk Now

Idealistically

The Extinction Rebellion Podcast

The Landworkers' Radio

Wilder

What Could Possibly Go Right?

Frontiers of Commoning

The War on Cars

The Rewild Podcast

Books (Fiction):

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed The Word for World is Forest

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Phoebe Wagner: When We Hold Each Other Up

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

Brenda J. Pierson: Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

Justine Norton-Kertson: Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology

Sim Kern: The Free People’s Village

Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden

Sarina Ulibarri: Glass & Gardens

Books (Non-fiction):

Murray Bookchin: The Ecology of Freedom

George Monbiot: Feral

Miles Olson: Unlearn, Rewild

Mark Shepard: Restoration Agriculture

Kristin Ohlson: The Soil Will Save Us

Rowan Hooper: How To Spend A Trillion Dollars

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom At The End of The World

Kimberly Nicholas: Under The Sky We Make

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass

David Miller: Solved

Ayana Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson: All We Can Save

Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are The Weather

Colin Tudge: Six Steps Back To The Land

Edward Wilson: Half-Earth

Natalie Fee: How To Save The World For Free

Kaden Hogan: Humans of Climate Change

Rebecca Huntley: How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: The Future We Choose

Jonathon Porritt: Hope In Hell

Paul Hawken: Regeneration

Mark Maslin: How To Save Our Planet

Katherine Hayhoe: Saving Us

Jimmy Dunson: Building Power While The Lights Are Out

Paul Raekstad, Sofa Saio Gradin: Prefigurative Politics

Andreas Malm: How To Blow Up A Pipeline

Phoebe Wagner, Bronte Christopher Wieland: Almanac For The Anthropocene

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

William MacAskill: What We Owe To The Future

Mikaela Loach: It's Not That Radical

Miles Richardson: Reconnection

David Harvey: Spaces of Hope Rebel Cities

Eric Holthaus: The Future Earth

Zahra Biabani: Climate Optimism

David Ehrenfeld: Becoming Good Ancestors

Stephen Gliessman: Agroecology

Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia

Jon Alexander: Citizens

Leah Thomas: The Intersectional Environmentalist

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Book

Jen Bendell, Rupert Read: Deep Adaptation

Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac

Jane Goodall: The Book of Hope

Vandana Shiva: Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement

Minouche Shafik: What We Owe To Each Other

Dieter Helm: Net Zero

Chris Goodall: What We Need To Do Now

Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Stephanie Foote: The Cambridge Companion To The Environmental Humanities

Bella Lack: The Children of The Anthropocene

Hannah Ritchie: Not The End of The World

Chris Turner: How To Be A Climate Optimist

Kim Stanley Robinson: Ministry For The Future

Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall: Black Ops & Beaver Bombing

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

Lynne Jones: Sorry For The Inconvenience But This Is An Emergency

Helen Crist: Abundant Earth

Sam Bentley: Good News, Planet Earth!

Timothy Beal: When Time Is Short

Andrew Boyd: I Want A Better Catastrophe

Kristen R. Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia

Elizabeth Cripps: What Climate Justice Means & Why We Should Care

Kylie Flanagan: Climate Resilience

Chris Johnstone, Joanna Macy: Active Hope

Mark Engler: This is an Uprising

Anne Therese Gennari: The Climate Optimist Handbook

Magazines:

Solarpunk Magazine

Positive News

Resurgence & Ecologist

Ethical Consumer

Films (Fiction):

How To Blow Up A Pipeline

The End We Start From

Woman At War

Black Panther

Star Trek

Tomorrowland

Films (Documentary):

2040: How We Can Save The Planet

The People vs Big Oil

Wild Isles

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Generation Green New Deal

Video Games:

Terra Nil

Animal Crossing

Gilded Shadows

Anno 2070

Stardew Valley

RPGs:

Solarpunk Futures

Perfect Storm

Advocacy Groups:

A22 Network

Extinction Rebellion

Greenpeace

Friends of The Earth

Apps:

Ethy

Sojo

BackMarket

Depop

Vinted

Olio

Buy Nothing

Too Good To Go

Websites:

European Co-housing

UK Co-housing

US Co-housing

Brought By Bike (connects you with zero-carbon delivery goods)

ClimateBase (find a sustainable career)

Environmentjob (ditto)

Businesses (🤢):

Ethical Superstore

Hodmedods

Fairtransport/Sail Cargo Alliance

Let me know if you think there’s anything I’ve missed!

[90-ghost]

There are currently ZERO functioning hospitals in Gaza City.

If you get injured: You die.

[soon-palestine]

[mysharona1987]

[dancinbutterfly]

Yo, this might be a joke but speaking to you as a social worker who has worked in housing and homelessness services and food banks?

ALWAYS CHOOSE YOUR RENT.

Food pantries are a punch in the nuts to your pride but they require WAY less hoops to jump through to get than the financial side of housing assistance. Also, there is often going to be MORE RESOURCES AVAILABLE for you when it comes to food assistance of MULTIPLE TYPES (food stamps/ebt, places that double said EBT, food pantries, places that just give away free food like soup kitchens, places that give away their leftovers from the day before etc) rather than housing assistance which are neither numerous nor are people likely to apply for.

I personally have used food pantries. I may have to use them again. They are there to help you for that reason, okay? Please fucking choose to pay your rent until we can abolish landlords and live on mutual aid.

Stay housed. Do you hear me, if this choice happens, seek mutual aid or charity for food and STAY HOUSED. Statistically, it is better to take the hit to your pride, go ask for food assistance, and sleep in your bed and eat that food in your home because coming back from losing said home is going to be so much harder that recovering from food insecurity is.

ITS FUCKED UP THAT WE HAVE TO CHOOSE BUT PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS ONE OK? JUST TRUST ME.

[findingfeather]

(Also your friends are more likely to be able to help you with food than they are with rent. Just truth.)

[mysharona1987]

[walks-the-ages]

[ID: a cropped screenshot of an article by Jez Corden, that shows a headline reading: 'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza. A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza. end ID]

Link to article:

'Microsoft killed my online life,' Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relativ

This link has been backed up to the Wayback Machine on Archive.org, if the above link breaks.

Original ID by @shinsources , it just wasn't in plain text (large and colored text is not screenreader friend and can cause eye strain), and the link had been broken, with Microsoft deleting their own article to try to save their own skin.

[good-old-gossip]

The first Palestinian athlete to participate in the Olympic games died on Wednesday at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza as a result of kidney failure due to power outages and medical shortages as a result of the ongoing Israeli war and siege of the enclave.

Majed Abu Maraheel, who passed away at the age of 61, became the first athlete to be the flag bearer and represent Palestinians at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Being a distance runner, he competed in the 10km race.

Since his breakthrough on the world stage, more than 20 Palestinian men and women have been able to compete at Olympic competitions.

"He was a Palestinian icon, and he will remain as such," his brother told Paltoday TV after the funeral.

"We tried to evacuate him to Egypt but then the Rafah crossing was closed (by Israel), and his condition kept deteriorating."

In his preparation for the Olympics, Abu Maraheel would often be seen on his daily runs from his home in Gaza to the Erez Crossing with Israel, which Israel closed in October after imposing a full blockade on the Strip.

Last month, it was reopened for the first time since then.

He would often have to pass through that crossing for his job as a day labourer in Israel. After participating in the Olympics, Abu Maraheel went on to become a coach for other Palestinian runners hoping to replicate his presence at the international competition.

Abu Maraheel's death highlights the grim fate of many Palestinians who are facing kidney failure in Gaza.

A report from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in March found that there were between 1,000 to 1,500 patients in Gaza with kidney failure, and that they are facing a "slow death" because of "a lack of medical and therapeutic services, medications and other necessities".

Israel denies blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, though aid agencies say they are not able to get aid in because of Israeli restrictions.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

With international attention focused on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel is violently and rapidly stealing more and more Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Israel’s most genocidal leaders are seeing through plans to force as many Palestinians out of their homes as possible in order to ensure they can never return.

“For every country that unilaterally recognizes a Palestinian state, we will establish a [illegal] settlement,” said Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Let’s be clear, stealing Palestinians land has been Israel’s goal since day 1. It’s illegal, it’s wrong, and it must be stopped.

No one is above international law. The Biden administration should be pushing Israel to abide by international law, not enabling its war crimes against Palestinians.

Like all people, Palestinians deserve to be safe and free in their homes.

[mother-of-platypus]

This is how many bullets they shot on a fucking kid.

[godloveyell]

While I know Dianne Feinstein has finally shuffled off this mortal coil (or the Democrats have finally stopped propping up her corpse ala Weekend at Bernie’s), I still feel this clip of her meeting with these children is the perfect encapsulation of the modern Democratic Party: geriatric as fuck, condescending at best, outwardly hostile at worst to their base, and full of contempt for anyone under forty.

Because okay, even if Feinstein thought the Green New Deal was a bad idea for whatever reason, she should have been able to lay out why she thought it was a bad idea and explain what she felt should be done instead. If nothing else, she should be able to assure these kids that she cares about their concerns and wants to do right by them. This is Basic Politician 101 here, the kind of thing that someone who spent like 30 years in the US Senate should be able to do.

But Feinstein can’t even managed to do any of that, making it quite apparent to these kids that she doesn’t give a rat’s ass about any of their concerns with the underlying “I’ll be dead before any of this stuff actually affects me & if I’m not, well, decades of insider trading has made me rich as fuck, so I can buy my way out of this anyway” message barely hidden underneath.

Yeah, none of these kids voted for her, but they will be old enough to vote someday, and I doubt that these future voters are going to turn out for a party that’s made their contempt for them quite clear.

Plus, while they’re not voters, they are her fucking constituents, citizens of the state of California, aka the people she was put into power to represent.

Seriously, I hate the GOP, but you hold no illusions about them. They say what they’re going to do and guess what! They proceed to do it or at least, put forth a damn good effort to do so.

The Democrats, on the other hand, pretend to be on my side, while backstabbing and selling out their base at every turn.

David Sirota said that the key difference between the two major parties is that the GOP fears their base. Meanwhile the Democrats despise their base.

That may be the most accurate summation around.

Though at least in the past, the Democrats were able to put forward the effort to mask their contempt. The modern version can’t even do that.

[damnesdelamer]

[opencommunion]

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

[morlock-holmes]

Also, like, I'm sorry but if you've set up a free shelter, and people refuse to go because sleeping on the sidewalk under a freeway bridge is more pleasant, that's fucking on you, that's not on them.

You really can't compete with sleeping under the overpass so you are going to force people into shelter?

Unspeakably cruel and stupid.

[shieldfoss]

Most Correct Take on this subject.

[blogofex]

AIUI the most common reason for this is that most shelters don't let you do drugs while at the shelter. If someone prefers doing drugs to sleeping in a bed is that the shelter's fault?

[irradiate-space]

Reasons I have heard from local homeless about why they won't go to shelters include:

Can't bring your dog

Can't bring your prescribed medications

Can't sleep due to noise, light, or forced schedule

Fleas, bedbugs, and other infestations

More likely to get in a fight than when living on the street

More likely to get stolen from than when living on the street

Not enough space for personal belongings

Curfews that don't match work schedules

Why bother when there's a monthslong waitlist to get into the shelter, and then you get evicted from the shelter after a week, because you arrived two minutes after curfew, because the bus was late?

Requirement to hold down a job

Required to do daytime "volunteer" work at the shelter, preventing job-searching or actual job work

Required to attend Christian services, as often as twice daily

Those last two in particular were listed as reasons that people don't use the single available shelter in Grants Pass.

[dragontatoes]

also, yeah, it is the shelter's fault if someone chooses sleeping outside over dealing with any/all of the above while also going through drug withdrawals. The average adult doesn't want to go a day without coffee, and yet can't understand why the immensely painful/dangerous ordeal of quitting hard drugs cold turkey is a turnoff from a bed in a shelter. Almost anyone would pick their tent on the sidewalk to avoid that experience. Put a damn safe injection site in your shelter.

[justslowdown]

I was waiting for that last addition... like. OK, if that IS why they choose not to sleep at a shelter, they aren't "preferring doing drugs to sleeping in a bed." What a fucked up, compassionless take.

[godloveyell]

Don’t forget how many abused women take their children with them and flee to shelters that as supposed to help them, only to be told that their seven-year-old son can’t stay at the shelter with them, because they have a strict “No Men Allowed” policy.

That has happened when it comes to Battered Women’s Shelters or Women’s Only Shelters, where there’s a space but only if the woman is willing to abandon her male children to whatever fate awaits them on the streets or with an abusive relative. Can you understand why then a mother under those circumstances might decide to stay on the streets instead?

Then again, whenever the subject of homeless people comes up, I’m the one who shouts, “Or you could just give them a GODDAMN HOUSE!”

Seriously, we’ve done the math and, in some places, even implemented the idea. It is LITERALLY CHEAPER to give homeless people a goddamn house than to let them die in the streets.

Yet how well would Capitalism function if it couldn’t use the threat of homelessness to keep the workers in line?

[guerrillatech]

[audible-smiles]

People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

[godloveyell]

To add to the conversation, I’m going to link to a Reddit thread where someone discusses how their friend died from hustle culture at the age of fucking 32.

Serves as a heartbreaking reminder that hustle culture is bullshit.

Do the amount of work needed to keep your job and try to use whatever time and energy leftover to live your life. Do not give your all for a job that cannot and will not love you back. You only have one life to live. Don’t spend it constantly working.

Reddit - Dive into anything

[rabbitrah]

I know y'all should all know by now, but here is a current example of how drag bans actually ban trans people from existing in public spaces

This was the email that was sent to Adria Jawort, a two spirit author scheduled to speak at a Montana library, on the first day of pride month.

[wiigiwaamcore]

I just wanna emphasize the fact that the trans person in question here is an INDIGENOUS TRANS WOMAN and that’s not a coincidence. These laws are disproportionately gonna impact people of color and trans women and above all trans women of color. And her talk was going to focus on the history of Two-Spirit people in Montana

[hogtown-gdc]

[gothicourse]

[crotanga]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[sataniccapitalist]

Bees and Wasps

“There's already American contractors here, bidding to rebuild this joint. You're gonna tell me. You know, that's all the defense department

[godloveyell]

I would have been more willing to grant plausible deniability if this were the early 00s but at this point, after witnessing so many military quagmires and given that social media enables people to bypass military censorship, enabling people to see just what we’re doing around the world…

[godloveyell]

[radicalgraff]

"Bush lied about Iraq, Biden lies about Palestine"

Sticker spotted in New York

[beesandwasps]

Okay, this is important: Biden also lied about Iraq.

In 2005, the now-former-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed that he had sent a memo to everyone in the Senate, saying that investigations had revealed that every single claim being made by the Bush administration about Iraq was either an outright lie or was, at best, neither provable nor disprovable. This memo went out two weeks before the vote.

Biden, like Hillary Clinton, still voted for the war, and made public statements supporting it.

The largest antiwar demonstrations the world had ever seen to that date were held against the Bush administration, and yet Biden still backed it. He didn’t even have to make the intelligence memo public — he could have used those demonstrations and his famous religious beliefs — the ones which had him trying to ban abortion in Congress for more than 3 decades — as public excuses to vote against it if his state was not mostly against the war. (I’m not sure whether his state was majority-antiwar or not. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, also voted for the invasion even though New York, which she notionally represented, was polling at over 60% antiwar.)

Neoliberal Democrats have every bit as much guilt as Republicans for the state of the world today.

[godloveyell]

The Democrats have consistently chosen to give the GOP everything they want, only making token protests about their actions, then proceeding to use the GOP’s actions as a scare tactic to get votes.

A rule of thumb: the bad cop’s not out of control and the good cop’s your friend.

[socialistexan]

The voters literally weren't given a choice Joseph!

In fact, id argue we were all lied to when you told us in 2020 that you were planning on being a transitional President, meant to be a bridge out of the Trump-era to the next generation of leadership with the implication being that you were only serving one term.

But no, we had a non-competitive primary (which is common with incumbent President who is running for reelection) where we had no choices outside you and some cranks who no one wanted. All the serious potential candidates on both the left and center deferred to you because of the cache you built up and your inner circle blew so much smoke up your own ass that you used one of the few times you used your office to get people in line.

So, no, we didn't have a choice you decript fucker, and if you actually listened to voters, you'd hear that we've been telling you to not run and we want someone else for over two years!

[godloveyell]

If you ever want to know just how great the Democratic Party’s commitment to democracy, just look at all the lawsuits they’ve filed to keep third parties off the ballot, even in Nevada where the Green Party managed to get 3X the number of signatures needed to be listed on the ballot.

And of course, all the shitfuckery regarding Bernie… given their stubborn insistence on holding onto Biden despite his unpopularity, it’s pretty clear that the Democrats would much rather lose to Trump than risk anyone getting into power who might make meaningful change. They fear the Left far more, no matter how much they point to Project 2025 as a scare tactic.