solarpunk dreams

A hopeful sci-fi future to believe in 🌞 - 🌿 - 🌎 - 💕 Expect late night rants, 10 page essays, fiction short stories, and more. Journal / Stories / Educational / Reviews / How-to's banner/logo transparent images credit: x / x My aesthetic curation blog is here: Solarpunk Inspo This is a secondary writing blog. Main blog is: Solarpunk Artist - - - "We are ontological engineers: hacking reality & constructing worlds" - Diana Slattery

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Why I’m Vegan and Why You Should Be Too

I am a vegan for the animals, the planet, health, and human rights. First and foremost I’m an ethical vegan who believes in animal liberation. There is no humane way to kill an innocent sentient being that does not want to die for a fleeting taste pleasure. 

Read my full blog post here: https://goo.gl/L4qH8R

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Make Solarpunk Artwork!

I have tons of solarpunk art I want to make in the coming months. (So stay tuned). But if we want solarpunk to spread we need lots of artists making solarpunk work. If you enjoy the idea or the look of solarpunk, even if you’ve never made anything before, consider making something in the genre! My Pinterest has everything you will ever need to get inspiration, find examples, and resources. There’s a Solarpunk Craft board if you’d like to try something more straightforward. There’s a Land art / Earthworks board that shows examples of this type of art if you’d like to try that. Try making a Nature Mandala or Danmala. Or try making something useful, like a DIY product/Natural Goods. There are doodles, Art Nouveau designs, Fashion designer tips, and Art Resources for making digital work. Make a miniature garden, a flower crown, or a terrarium. Try moss graffiti or guerrilla gardening, maybe make seed bombs! Make your own solarpunk jewelry, create a solarpunk makeup look, or upcycle clothes into solarpunk outfits. There’s also a board just for palettes inspired by nature to help you pick a color scheme! You could make a solarpunk inspired food dish, complete with edible flowers. Or try going out into the world and taking photos of things that ‘feel’ solarpunk to you. A beautiful cabin in the woods, nature coexisting in a city, a small garden on a rooftop or in someones apartment, a tiny flower poking up through the concrete, anything you like.

I hope more inspiring work in this genre comes out! We need positivity now more than ever. If you’re reading this and you make something, message me and I’ll feature your work! I’d love to see what you come up with.

https://solarpunkartist.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/make-solarpunk-work/

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me: *walks up/down a flight of stairs* that very flight of stairs afterwards:

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Flowers following in her wake, growing from her delicate touch. Beautiful floral perfumes emanating from her very being, she was the embodiment of fragile and beautiful, wondrous nature. 

I’ll be starting a DnDn campaign soon in which I’m a tiefling druid. I imagine she will be seen as a tree hugger type by the rest of the group. This is the kinda stuff I envision when I think of her and her nature magic. :) 

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A hopeful sci-fi future to believe in. 🌞🌿🌎💕

Just launched my wordpress! It only has one post at the moment but should have more content soon (: 

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Wed Aug 23rd  Entry #1 

I’ve recently begun work on a vegan activism video. It will feature a song from Bright Eyes and be inspirational, emotionally heavy, but hopefully up-lifting. I’ll use found footage from famous youtubers Earhling Ed, Joey Carbstrong, James Aspey, and more. Wish me luck! Follow me on social media to get updates on everything I’m working on and my future activism. 

What kind of solarpunk content would you like to see?

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Food Rant

Important takeaway from Michael Pollens Netflix movie ‘Cooked’: as a society we have lost the art and joy and time for cooking. Processed food is inherently worse for you than anything “natural” or “whole-food”. The closer to nature you can get it the better for you. Making your own ice cream and eating it fresh isn’t that bad, buying it from a store is different. We are all so spoiled that we can have anything we want with a quick trip to the store that we’ve become detached from the actual food. Who grew the food that went into the processed foodstuff you got off the shelf? Where did the soy grow that turned into the soybean oil that was used in the product? Who was the farmer? We’ve let other people and large corporations separate us from the process, brain-wash us all into not caring. We’ve made it normal to be ignorant about the most important thing we do on a daily basis, the most important purchase, the stuff we let pass between our lips and enter our system, the thing that gives us life, that fuels our every move. Our sustenance, the thing that all animals must obtain to survive and we’ve become ignorant and apathetic. Why is it that making ethical and intelligent and cautious moves when it comes to our food are we looked down on? People get defensive, immediately assume “vegans” think they’re better than non-vegans. Probably because in their subconscious they’re guilty and they know that one is superior to another in terms of morality but they don’t want to feel like they’re being accused, they’ve only been doing what everyone else is, after all. They’re not a bad person, and society still sees it as normal, so why should they have to change? And why should they have to defend themselves? The main reasons people stick to their habits are selfish, and that is not meant to be rude or to point the finger but it’s true. Their main arguments are the 4 N’s: Natural, Normal, Necessary, & Nice. Once they realize that science has proved it’s not necessary and in some ways a bit unnatural all they have left are Normal & Nice. Or: everyone else does it, it’s part of my culture, change is too hard, and I enjoy the taste of flesh. These are selfish reasons. When people talk about doing something personally to help with issues, others say they cannot because it’s "too hard”. The quote I love is “Those that say being vegan is too hard are thinking about themselves. The people who say being vegan is easy are thinking about the animals.”

Along w/ being vegan I am attempting to avoid palm oil & slave trade chocolate. I am attempting to buy exclusively organic & will be visiting the farmers market for the first time since living here & doing a bit of research on that. I’m also trying to buy more in bulk and zero waste if i can. Sure, it would be easier to just buy w/e I want and not think about each purchasing decision and who or what it will affect but I can’t do that anymore. That’s what most people do, and I don’t blame them because I understand. But we have a duty to each other, the earth, and the animals to take the extra time it takes and make the right decisions. Unfortunately voting with our dollar means quite a bit more than voting sometimes does. We should continue to do both. Support business that support others, the earth, and animals. That pay their employees well, that find the most sustainable way of doing business, and that harm “zero" animals in the process. It’s hard but not impossible. And obviously I long for a world in which I don’t have to put in so much effort when buying everything. A world where everything you buy is sustainable and from an ethical business because we lived in some kind of large Solarpunk city, maybe within a resource based economy. One could imagine a place like that being much easier to make good choices. Maybe slave chocolate and palm oil products wouldn’t even be allowed within it’s walls. Protecting it’s citizens from making unethical choices. Maybe that sounds a bit apocalyptic. Your first reaction is: that’s taking away my freedom of choice! And I get it, I’m not sure how I feel about it. But I wish it was easier to be ethical in this world. 

For now, try your hardest, if you make a mistake forgive yourself, move on, and promise to do better. Be an activist for stopping these products from even being made. Obviously the corporations that commit these crimes are atrocious but that doesn’t excuse the consumer anymore when the information is widely available. 

Get educated. Do your best. Educate others.

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In Search of Balance

Watch this documentary on Netflix. It’s so Solarpunk 🌍🌿💕

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This documentary is very beautiful. Definitely worth a watch. 😊

Have you seen it?

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I want as many people as possible to know about solarpunk, especially creators. If more creative people are making work inspired by solarpunk then the idea of it spreads. Even if they don't call their work solarpunk, the vibe, the feeling of it spreads. It's an inherently positive idea, I think so it being spread can only be positive. Sure, it gaining more notoriety or popularity will result in more naysayers but there is certainly plenty of good to come from it.I wish I had known about the idea a long time ago. It has finally given me a subject that as an artist I don't grow tired of. Since college I haven't really made anything new but I feel that I need to again and most if not all the work I want to create is solarpunk related. So spread the word, tell your parents, friends, and coworkers. This sub genre of science fiction needs to be heard and talked about. As much as I hate this word, the idea of solarpunk needs to go viral. Or how can we make those who don't already care about the environment give a shit? The impending doom of climate change doesn't work. Let's show everyone a positive future to strive for instead of a horrible one to be scared of.

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What is Solarpunk?

Solarpunk to me is a beautiful sci-fi vision combining the aesthetics of afro-futurism, art nouveau, and nature. It's an optimistic idealist depiction of a future in which humans work in symbiosis with the planet that gives us life instead of in conflict with it. It embodies the hope that we can deserve it again. It's a light in the dark of dystopian and apocalyptic science fiction.

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