🌞✊ What could Solarpunk Integrative Tech look like? How do we keep it regenerative?
Some Solarpunk tech is about the implementation of information to our physical world. It can be scrappy reuse of materials to create devices. Other Solarpunk tech is about applying regenerative ethics to currently available tech implementations. It can be running some sleek code to assist in management of water and land stewardship. Ideas:
Applying nature to improve our quality of life - creating green corridors through urban sprawl.
Using open source, automated, programs that reduce people's workload, in a society where everyone has comfortable UBI.
Free, accessible, software for text to voice of any digital content.
Home servers, running home assistants, a central hub for all smart devices and routines, that can also be verbally instructed to program and complete new tasks throughout the system and onto your device.
Local Council funded repair and learn cafes, staffed by techies ready to assist with implementations on personal or home devices.
Tech motivation shifts to keep us grounded in reality. Video call framing that captures the room and your upper body, displaying on a tv, so you can sit across the room from one another, on couches or at a table. Embodied. Kinder on the eyes.
Expanded research and development into reuse of materials. Local tip shop with repair cafe attached. If the local tip shop was a warrened warehouse of meticulously labelled, with accurate database, of spare parts and materials.
Mesh networks. Offline networks. Private Home Servers. Running on backyard renewable power. Data sharing a Library across the suburban sprawl.
Neighbourhood renewable alliance powersharing program. Locals without power generation methods can sign up to use their neighbours excess.
Solarpunk tech is about recognising the enemies of our regenerative future and using their tools against them. Shifting the needle on tech use norms - towards decenteralisation, libraries, and open source. Breaking apart the oligarchies.
