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Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa are building solutions that richer nations could learn from
Interesting blog post.
I've been saying this for like 3 years now!! Always excited to see more coverage of it!!
If you're interested in the future of solarpunk, ecopunk, and a sustainable, livable future, African, South Asian, Latin American, and Indigenous climate movements are absolutely some of the biggest places you should look.
Everyone deserves healthcare.
Everyone deserves housing.
Everyone deserves healthy food, clean water, and affordable clothes.
Everyone deserves education.
Everyone deserves employment.
Everyone deserves dignity and justice.
Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old, like "wind catchers."
From 2021:
87% of all U.S. homes are equipped with air conditioners, and air conditioning accounts for 12% of residential energy use. Besides the fossil fuels that power them, many use refrigerants to cool the air, which can be potent greenhouse gasses if released. In addition, air conditioners cool us down by capturing heat from the interior of buildings, but they expel that heat outside, directly warming the environment and contributing to the urban heat island effect.
And ironically, the warmer it gets, the more cool air we blast and the more electricity we consume. The solution: Innovators are working hard to find ways to cope with the new normal — extreme heat and rising temperatures. The creativity is high, from apps that help pedestrians find cool walks and shady spots to next-generation technologies like cooling paper that lowers the temperature inside homes. .... In the hot, arid Iranian Plateau, ancient structures, called “wind catchers,” are attracting academics, engineers, and architects who want to find creative new (and old) ways to cool off. The wind catchers, or bâdgir in Persian, are common structures that extend above the rooftops in rectangular towers, reports BBC. They made life livable. And, because they cool a building without using electricity or fuel, they are an attractive green solution. ..... Wind catchers are designed differently based on the prevailing winds and temperatures in a local region. The most uncomplicated design faces the tower opening toward the prevailing wind to create natural ventilation. But local climates are complicated, and often wind catchers had many features: filters, passive cooling systems (by passing hot air over cool water), or multiple openings to account for varied wind directions.
This week's bouquets and produce - I loooooooove making the bouquets but they never sell!! I need to figure out how to get people interested in them
How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.
Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).
And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!
The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.
We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.
Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:
Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.
Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!
Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden
Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)
Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter
Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter
Grow food in 5 gallon buckets
Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)
Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on
Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth
Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity
Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem
Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe
Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.
Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.
Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries
Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas
joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!
Adding a few!
Replant scraps from your produce
Graft fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental trees in your area
Turn plastic waste into pretty much any plastic thing you need, in your garage, with machines built out of cheap and accessible parts
Make your own paper out of recycled paper or cardboard
Build a composter or a wormery
Harvest rainwater
Mod your toilet to flush gray water (used sink/shower water, or even that rainwater you’re harvesting)
Build a solar collector on the cheap
Build a wind turbine on the cheap
Build a hydroelectric water wheel on the cheap
Get internet access without going through cable companies using cheap, low-tech equipment
Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!
And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!
ok so instead of going on my usual the earth is doomed spiral I started looking into solar punk solutions and stumbled across the practice of permaculture & found a free 50 video series from the university of oregon on it if anyone else would like to learn abt ways we can actually start restoring earths whole deal
Permaculture Design Course - Oregon State University Ecampus
Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmenta
Podcast Episode · Audible Anarchism · 11/01/2025 · 2h 14m
Agroecology - Wikipedia
Another cool resource with information on sustainable waste management and other environmental pursuits! https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
settlers are always so enthusiastic about ''foraging'' and then you'll start talking to them about indigenous horticulture & sustainable harvesting practices and they quickly reveal that they're more interested in the aesthetic of being a Crunchy Woodland Creature than like reducing their reliance on exploitative industrial agriculture or rebuilding their local foodshed
This is not true and it is in fact neither very simple nor very plain to forage sustainably. This kind of flippant "it's such an easy hobby" attitude when it comes to harvesting is exactly *why* there are so many problems with once-abundant traditional foods being depleted. Every plant is different, has different needs, and can support a different intensity of gathering. Foraging isn't just some fun hobby, and shouldn't be treated like one. It is a method of intentionally working land to gather resources meant to sustain oneself, whether those resources be food, medicine, or something else. It requires conscious maintenance of the land you are working, and active monitoring of not just your own gathering, but the gathering of your entire community. It requires experiential, often generational knowledge. You cannot boil a resource-gathering operation down to a simple truism and expect others to be able to do it respectfully and sustainably.
the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad
Wanna help out your neighborhood raccoons and possums? Supporting ecosystems starts at the base. Adding native plants to your backyard, roof deck, sidewalk, or window box provides habitat for insects and other little creatures that philly’s wildlife relies on.
(If you live outside of Philly, this applies to your town too)
The innovation. Shoutout to engineering oh and flower pots and shit.
I need to do this, itty bitty fairy gardens 💜🔮💜
such pretty gardens 🌿💜😻
Ya’ll might wanna grow some hyperaccumulators (such as sunflowers, oyster mushrooms, mustard greens, vetiver, etc) around your house and/or in your garden for a few years before you plant leafy vegetables so you don’t end up consuming heavy metals.
If you’re uncertain, most state universities have soil testing labs that offer cheap, easily understood soil tests that can tell you for sure whether you’ve got lead, arsenic, etc. in your soils.
searching for “university extension soil test [your state]” will probably turn up helpful info!
This is a good thing to note, (also sunflowers are very pretty and easy to grow when you’re first learnign how to garden) but also searching “(nearest university) Extension” and “(your county) Extension” is GREAT because there’s ALL KINDS of cool services out there if you want to get into growing your own food or helping the local enviornment or installing solar panels on your house or buying livestock or- There’s a lot, it’s AWESOME, it’s usually stunningly low-cost and it’s veyr, very solarpunk so I encourage all of you to take a gander at the programs offered.
The Cooperative Extension System is run in each state by the state’s land grant university/ies (which might not be the ones you think, in NY it’s Cornell rather than any of the SUNYs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_State_Research,_Education,_and_Extension_Service#Cooperative_Extension_System It’s also where all 4H programs are based!
Some also offer classes! They’re taxpayer funded, so that means the wealthy ones can offer tons of resources. If you can’t find much going on in your state, nearby states may also have excellent info that can apply to your area. Some of the famous heavyweights are Cornell / New York and UC Davis / California, tons of research, plant breeding programs, and all around useful info coming outta those places.
As a botanist I’m contractually obligated to add this any time I see posts about phytoremediation–if you do this you CANNOT let the sunflowers/msuhrooms/etc decompose back into your garden. You cannot add them to your compost pile. That just puts the heavy metals right back into your soil!!!! You need to bag them up and dispose of them elsewhere–traditional landfill waste is probably going to be easiest for most people.
These plants ACCUMULATE metals. They do NOT break them down. You’re pulling them up from the ground and storing them in the plant tissue, so, don’t consume or compost that tissue afterwards.
*Is vibrating with special interest hitting the proper way again* Yall... This is your only chance to walk away before an unskipable cut scene happens
OK the jumping off point is gunna be this tik tok and this one about the concept that "No one is actually childfree" while I'll make similar points, they do a MUCH better job at getting the concept across well.
>Mother work as described in the first video- Mothering historically hasn't been an indivual role but rather a collective function to sustain a community.
> As is the point made in both videos, we as humans are never truely Childfree because of Community and only under Capitalism do we really ha e the value of "Not my child, not my problem" this thought process stemming out from the concept of children = property.
>> As we shift our understanding of Personal into Commons in a positive light anything that was previously held in this manner will be liberated and no longer a horrible weight to carry. Children as a commons responsibility is a shift that while I could understand externally, as someone with children until this light bulb moment I couldn't fathom or reason internally.
>> Children as much as Community care, just as much as Elders are Community care, as much as my health should be Community care.
>We don't have to be biologically attached to a human for them to be apart of our collective community. We don't have to teach every step, potty training or sleep training, or reading or nutrition or stories or so on... We could be simply the person they go to when they are physically hurt, or when they want to learn how to make chocolate chips, or how to paint. We could be apart of every step, or only one and we'd still be apart of the concept of Motherwork for those children.
Secondly, today I was teaching my eldest how to make soup.
A part we talked about was You can't cook or clean if your sick so "What happens if your sick? You still need to eat..."
And they had a few guesses - ordering out, preparing stuff in advance. And it occurred to me that while it works sure, it's also very taxing up front and requires a LOT of foresight into when you'll need it. How exhausting.
So what's the answer? Each other.
None of us should be living so isolated that if we get hurt, sick, or feel unwell that we should have to go without food.
All this in addition to things about "If it was good for us, it wouldn't take violence to uphold" and it's sister "If it was good for women, they would have taken it away"
It just kinda all feels tied together in a way I wish I could articulate, and maybe someone else could.
Crafting some mini fishies out of small scraps!! 🎣💫
What are Cyber Decks?
Cyber decks are a very cool diy piece of tech.
They are these compact computers people are creating, using shells and then adding screens, a power supply, and a computer (most popular I've seen is Raspberry Pis)
They can be anything from Mp3s to kindle to photo booths to gaming things I've even seen someone using a pokeball shell to run an og pokemon game
Very excited today because last fall, we collected some Oregon White oak acorns, and I checked on them today and they germinated! Soon they'll be planted on city property across town, and I am so excited. This is such an important tree, with a massive ecological impact.
HELL YEAH
Hey everyone! As part of a personal project I’m trying to brainstorm factors that would make communities/locations more resistant to climate change and the damage that it can cause to people’s lives. If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear them!
Just to clarify because there were a couple questions about what I meant I’m thinking along the lines of things that make cities safer from the effects of climate change
*puts on mortarboard*
Create green spaces, especially ones with trees, to mitigate both heat and flooding, and reduce air pollution as well. They could be parks of varying size, swales, nature strips, wall gardens, rooftop gardens, etc. Increasing tree cover is probably the most beneficial though.
Design urban spaces so that excess water is directed into green spaces, to mitigate flooding and/or make the most of rainwater. Swales, “sunken” gardens, and large green spaces where rivers are likely to overflow are all good ideas.
Urban farming and urban gardening to mitigate disruption of food supply, as well as provide green spaces. Dig for victory!
Diversify food sources as much as possible.
Paint rooftops white to mitigate heat. I have also heard of painting road surfaces white.
Where there must be a hard surface (roads, footpaths, etc.) use a porous surfacing material that allows water to seep through. That could be pavers with small holes or a new type of porous “concrete” (I’ve forgotten what it’s called).
If you can grow mangroves, plant mangroves to mitigate storm surges, as well as improve biodiversity.
Build large offshore wind farms to reduce storm intensity, as well as provide electricity. Yes, really.
Build a modular energy supply to mitigate damage from natural disasters. Avoid large areas being reliant on one energy source or distribution network. Ensure backups for important resources like hospitals, communication, and transportation.
Educate and inform citizens.
Create and strengthen community networks. Community projects, community hubs, and buy nothing/food sharing groups are good places to start.
Anticipate what emergencies are likely to occur and what peoples’ needs will be in that situation. Allocate funding, stockpile resources, and make plans accordingly.
Install early warning systems if necessary, and make sure everyone understands them.
Relocate people or important resources that are unavoidably in harm’s way.
Enforce vaccinations. The last thing anyone wants to deal with in tough times (never mind an emergency) is a pandemic.
Always account for supply lines!
These are all super great! Thank you!
These are awesome! Here’s a few more ideas:
In flood-prone regions, have government buyouts of flooded houses and turn those areas into green spaces
Change zoning laws where necessary to allow denser population (looking at California) while maintaining green spaces and flood planes
Ensure that city planning takes into account making evacuation routes
In drought-prone regions, subsidize homeowners collecting rainwater
In fire-prone regions, restrict building on the forest margins where fires spread; bury power lines where possible
