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Preorder and ToC
Preorders for Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures is live! I’m so excited to be getting this book into everyone’s hands. When Brontë and I started working on the proposal for this anthology in fall of 2018, we weren’t expecting for the bulk of the work to take place during 2020 and beyond. While this has been a painful time, we’ve also learned a lot and hope this…
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Cover Reveal!
Hi folks, When we proposed Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures to West Virginia University Press, we didn’t realize a pandemic would happen right in the middle of it all. While it’s made the journey longer, we are even more excited about the timeliness of this collection of peer-reviewed nonfiction that thinks about solarpunk as a lifestyle and philosophy rather than…
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Brontë's 2020 Rereads: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, in which I find tangents on nonprofits and the utility of dystopia
Brontë’s 2020 Rereads: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, in which I find tangents on nonprofits and the utility of dystopia
I first read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in the summer of 2016, and I have vivid memories of Lauren Olamina packing acorn flour into her go-bag (or, as I have started calling my own, a Butler bag), of her and her companions, Harry and Zahra, setting out after their community is destroyed, and of Bankole with his cart and his property to the north. Based on these remembrances, I…
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Brontë's 2020 Rereads: The Left Hand of Darkness
Brontë’s 2020 Rereads: The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness
Forty-six years after its original publication date, I first picked up and devoured The Left Hand of Darkness, at age 23. Now here we are, almost a year after the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s release, and I’ve finally gotten around to reading it again. But in the four-and-a-half years since I first read it, The Left Hand of Darkness has frequently been on my mind:…
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Brontë's 2020 Rereads: A Brief Introduction
Brontë’s 2020 Rereads: A Brief Introduction
Throughout 2019, I did my best to read authors that were new to me in order to intentionally broaden my reading. This personal project was a happy success. It felt great to give myself a firm reason to finally visit some authors that I’d been meaning to read for years.
In 2020, though, it feels important to do the opposite: to revisit the books of my past and view them with new eyes. In an effort…
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New Project: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
New Project: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
Dear Folx,
We are pleased to announce we have another book under contract! While Sunvault explored solarpunk through prose, poetry, and art, our new project, Almanac for the Anthropocene, will engage with solarpunk on a practical level.
Our goal with this edited collection is to provide an accessible handbook to transform the Anthropocene rather than fear it. Each chapter will have the same basic…
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5/5: In the current political climate, diving into an environmental journal can be uplifting or discouraging, too obvious or too obscure, leave the reader feeling bleak or encouraged to resist. Edited by Michael J. DeLuca, Reckoning's first issue sets the tone for a (hopefully long) future for Reckoning. The stories, essays, poems, and art balance the horror, beauty, and potential for healing present in nature. "Wolphinia" by Giselle Leeb starts off the issue and begins with a near future story of evolution, resistance, and the connection between human and animal. Leeb's protagonist, a human, t...
Hey you all, if you need some more environmental justice literature, check out Reckoning! They are also a paying market for all you writers and artists!
The below was compiled by solarpunks.tumblr.com the short link is http://solarpunks.tumblr.com/Ref.
We have received DMs from quite a few people who wanted to get into Solarpunk but didn’t find it very accessible after looking at the results of the google search. This page is an attempt to open up the optics of the Solarpunk community/genre for newcomers and others looking for references. A lot of the early discussions happened on tumblr dot com from 2014 onward after @missolivialouise‘s character concept post took off — with a core community of stewards who know who they are.
What follows is not meant to be an exhaustive list but hopefully will increasingly become one. We’re also aware that we are missing almost all of the art references from this list. :(
We also didn’t include any posts from us here at http://solarpunks.tumblr.com
Please get in touch (DM) with art and their references as a lot of content has lost their attribution — @thejaymo
Updated: April.17
Added links to some non english articles + recent articles. Also Noted that solarpunk was deleted by wikipedia.
Updated: May.17
Added 7+ more links to non english articles + recent articles in April. Also pushed back first online reference to solarpunk back to 2008 - one of which was @brucesterling on Wired dot com.
Updated: June.17
Added a boatload of things that happened over the last month. Including an event that took place in Romania discussing the legacy of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory in which Solarpunk was a theme later in the discussion.
I was sent some Solarpunk 2012 links i hadn’t seen before by a friend and also added ¾ additional german language links (thanks Arne!)
Updated: Aug 17
Missed a update month over the Summer but nothing is missing.
Includes a link to a great article called ‘You’ve Got To Throw Your Zombies On The Gears!’ which explains how “Solarpunk Is broken”
Links to the current Solarpunk Anthology translation Kickstarter added and a link to Australia’s The Conversation ‘Solarpunk Explainer’ article which is worth your time. And a bunch of other links too! :)
So much awesome stuff going on here!
Floating Garden Cleans As It Grows In One of Most Polluted Waterways In US
The Gowanus Canal in New York City is notorious for being one of the most polluted waterways in the U.S. Imagine everyone’s surprise when, three weeks ago, an oasis of pure greenery sprouted atop the surface of the river.
Not only is this improbable garden a breathtaking sight on the brackish water, but it is also cleaning the stream as it blooms.
The project, called GrowOnUs, is an experiment in “floating infrastructure” that utilizes a process called phytoremediation to tidy up the murky canal. Over 30 different kinds of plants act as sponges to purify, desalinate, and mitigate the chemicals affecting the waterway.
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GrowOnUs, ideally, will deliver a positive change in shoreline protection, wildlife activity, and financial income for the city. It could also become the next wave in locally-grown food.
“We have pioneered floating landscapes, we now want to learn what can make these floating structures financially sustainable” said Balmori in a press release. “Dr. Michael Balick at the New York Botanical Garden suggested we grow herbs, low maintenance crops.”
“In a few years NYC restaurants may be serving meals and drinks infused with herbs [and fruits] grown on one of these islands.”
(via Floating Garden Cleans As It Grows In The Most Polluted Waterway in US)
Diana Balmori Explains GrowOnUs Water-Cleaning Garden on Gowanus
Taking the plunge into the toxic Gowanus Canal: Lenny Speregen and John D'Aquino at TEDxGowanus
Solarpunk Anthology Translation
The first English translation of a groundbreaking Brazilian anthology of science fiction stories set in sustainable future worlds.
In 2012, the Brazilian publisher Editora Draco released an anthology of optimistic science fiction stories titled Solarpunk: Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável. The term “solarpunk” has been steadily gaining momentum in the English-speaking world to describe an aesthetic of hopeful, eco-friendly futures, stories that try to shift us away from the dystopian mindset that has been so prominent in recent science fiction. Now, World Weaver Press, a US-based small publisher, has the opportunity to bring the stories from this groundbreaking Brazilian anthology to an English-speaking readership.
Translated for the first time from Portuguese to English by Fábio Fernandes, Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastic Stories in a Sustainable World features nine authors from Brazil and Portugal. (Click the link to see full author and editor bios!) Funding the translation is our priority, but if we are successful, we plan to also create a brand new anthology to add more voices to the solarpunk conversation.
BACK THE KICKSTARTER!!! But thats not all!!
GLASS & GARDENS: SOLARPUNK SUMMERS
Anthologist: Sarena Ulibarri Open for Submissions: August 15, 2017 - November 15, 2017 Expected Publication: Summer 2018 Story Length: up to 8,000 words Payment: TBD (Determined by Kickstarter success—see Stretch Goals above!)
Solarpunk is a type of eco-conscious science fiction that imagines an optimistic future founded on renewable energies. It might take place in a wind-powered skyscraper or on a solar-powered robotic farm, in a bustling green-roofed metropolis or in a small but tech-saavy desert village. Often coupled with an art nouveau aesthetic, and always inclusive and diverse, solarpunk stories show the ways we have adapted to climate change, or the ways we have overcome it. For this anthology, I want to see solarpunk summers. Show me futuristic stories that take place in summer, whether that involves a summer night in a rooftop garden, or characters adapting to extreme heat and weather, or an annual migration to cooler lands. Keep it planet-based (Earth or other), and optimistic. Solarpunk worlds aren’t necessarily utopias, but they definitely aren’t dystopias.
Solarpunk Anthology Translation // https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/262808239/solarpunk-anthology-translation
They are funded for the translation, but stretch goals go to paying writers for their anthology Glass and Gardens!
Sunvault drops on Tuesday!
Sunvault drops on Tuesday!
Dear readers, writers, artists, movers & shakers, punks & solarpunks, Well, after a year and a half of living with Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, the anthology is almost here! It officially comes out on Tuesday (August 29th)! Twitter has alerted us that people are getting their backer copies! Send us some photos of you with your colorful copy (or some bookshelf selfies!). We…
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Inktober day 11! I was aiming for a sort-of-solarpunk vibe, tagged it as such on ig, some firm making solar panels liked it life is nice
Hey, tactile paving came up in the solarpunk tag a little while back, and one of my favorite YouTube channels just did a video about it so I figured it’d be a good idea to signal boost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY
Solarpunk As F*ck: SACRED - Zine
Solarpunk as F*ck is full of solarpunk thoughts, theories, and possibilities. Issue #2, SACRED, focuses on ideas about religion, celebration, and other hallowed activity in solarpunk worlds.
Essays: 9 Reasons God Isn’t Dead in a Solarpunk Future, Kat Lerner The Sacred Everywhere, K. D. Hume Guest-Friendship in Solarpunk Communities, Henry Branscombe The Geography of Solarpunk Celebrations, K. D. Hume Finding Religion, Joe Ingrao Solarpunk Witchcraft, Becca Mitchell & K. D. Hume The Value of a Bee, Fiachra Verity Real Life Solarpunk: Procession of the Species, K. D. Hume
Solarpunk AF zine published by @kdhume
I got it from etsy here : https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/455185460/solarpunk-as-fck-sacred
Contains an absolutely fantastic set of essays. If solarpunk and the occult are your fandoms, i highly recommend getting this!
Check it, y’all!
What can I do? (Solarpunk edition)
It warms my heart to see so much support and interest in solarpunk! I know a lot of people are wondering how they can contribute, and hopefully this answers most questions.
Firstly, I think everyone has something they can contribute–even simply listening and sharing is a HUGE help for solarpunk as a whole. Arts, design, fashion, architecture, engineering, farming, forestry, pharmaceuticals, medicine, travel/transit, fiction/nonfiction writing, industry, politics, education… whatever you work with, whatever your passions or hobbies are, you have something to contribute.
Solarpunk does not just mean solar-powered, in the same way Steampunk does not only refer to steam power.
It means looking towards a brighter future, for all of us sharing this Earth. It means seeing the options we’ve been shown for the future (post apoc trash or corporate dystopias) and saying “I refuse to accept this”.
Solarpunk is our present day -punk genre. It has the ability to spread and enact true change, if we nurture it enough.
And in that vein, to answer the question “What can I do?” We can break down solarpunk into three branches (for now):
Diversity: celebrating our differences, being empathetic, understanding and sharing multiple perspectives. Diversity in our sociopolitical lives as well as diversity for our ecosystems and economies.
Accessibility: advancement in technology cannot truly help humanity if certain classes or countries cannot access them. Disabilities (physical and mental) must be accounted for when we redesign cities for people; we must ensure everyone can get around them.
Sustainability: our current for-profit system is killing us and the beautiful creatures we share our planet with. We are wardens of Earth; we are here to protect and nurture it. Production based on need not profit, and de-industrialized agriculture. Communities should be able to function independently from the whole, in terms of necessities (food, water, power, shelter).
Along with these branches, I believe there are three other movements that will inevitably intersect with Solarpunk, if they haven’t already.
Permaculture: bringing back ancient/indigenous/sensible farming practices that we lost or considered “primitive”. Agroforestry, crop rotation, urban/vertical farming are good places to start.
Right-To-Repair: in response to companies like Apple denying our ability to maintain our own devices, there is a large movement dedicated to repairing tech in order to elongate their life cycle and prevent further waste. Why buy a phone every two years, when we could upgrade one continuously over ten?
Afrofuturism: Africa is finally beginning to get back on its feet after the imperialist Rape of Africa era. African Americans are strengthening their voices and cultural ties in this Eurocentric digital age. I cannot properly do this movement justice; it isn’t my voice that should be telling you. Supporting and uplifting the voices within this movement is crucial to not only Solarpunk, but to the wider goal of harmony and reparation.
The most important facet of Solarpunk is perspective: not everything will work for everyone, and listening to marginalized people is absolutely essential to growing our movement.
Be safe, be kind, and spread some love.
Wildlife and farming are under threat, so we’ve started a campaign to get everyone in the country to plant a tree and save their environment
